There's a scene in Sex And The City when Carrie and her squad forge their way onto the rooftop pool at the private members' club, Soho House, to escape the New York heat, that's memorable for two reasons. Firstly: the ropey English accent Samantha Jones (Kim Cattrall) adopts when impersonating club member 'Annabelle Bronstein'. And secondly, because it put the Meatpacking District on the map as a pool-dipping, party-hopping place to be.
Twenty years later, one of Downtown Manhattan's most unique neighbourhoods, sandwiched between the West Village and Chelsea and overlooking the Hudson River, is still keeping people cool — although these days, it's attracting quite a different crowd.
