Yes. This is the SoHo Grand Hotel, one of the more contentious and eagerly awaited projects in recent Manhattan history. SoHo, for those unfamiliar, is one of the city’s most unusual historic districts, filled with a melange of cast-iron structures unequaled elsewhere in the United States. It is also home to many of the city’s artists and, like many other Manhattan neighborhoods, has undergone a process of gentrification resented to some extent by its occu-pants. With the usual complement of the new "main street" emporia moving in, driving up local rents and driving out the small businesses, the district's longtime residents have been increasingly vocal about preserving what's left of SoHo’s idiosyncrasies.