Dakota Fanning Shops in Soho!

Dakota Fanning checks for oncoming traffic as she crosses a busy street on Thursday (October 11) in the Soho area of New York City.

The 18-year-old actress took a break from studying hard at NYU to do a bit of shopping in the area!

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Earlier this week, Dakota met up with her War of the Worlds director Steven Spielberg at the New York Film Festival screening of his flick Lincoln, starring Daniel Day Lewis as the title character.