Editing Chelsea, Manhattan (section)

===Residential===
[[Hotel Chelsea]], built 1883–1885 and designed by Hubert, Pirsson & Co., was New York's first cooperative apartment complex<ref name=nycland /> and was the tallest building in the city until 1902. After the theater district migrated uptown and the neighborhood became commercialized, the residential building folded and in 1905 it was turned into a hotel.<ref>Leffel, C. and Lehman, J. ''The Best Things to Do in New York''. New York: Universal Publishing 2006.</ref> The hotel attracted attention as the place where [[Dylan Thomas]] had been staying when he died in 1953 at [[St. Vincent's Hospital, Manhattan|St. Vincent's Hospital]] in [[Greenwich Village]], and for the 1978 slaying of [[Nancy Spungen]] for which [[Sid Vicious]] was accused. The hotel has been the home of numerous celebrities, including [[Brendan Behan]], [[Thomas Wolfe]], [[Mark Twain]], [[Tennessee Williams]] and [[Virgil Thomson]],<ref name=nycland /> and the subject of books, films (''[[Chelsea Girls]]'', 1966) and music.
[[File:View_from_High_Line_3_(New_York)_(44520183804).jpg|thumb|An eastward facing view from the [[High Line]]. [[London Terrace]] is visible on the left.]]
The [[London Terrace]] apartment complex on West 23rd was one of the world's largest apartment blocks when it opened in 1930, with a swimming pool, [[wikt:Solarium|solarium]], gymnasium, and doormen dressed as London bobbies. It was designed by Farrar and Watmough. It takes its name from the fashionable mid-19th century cottages that were once located there.<ref name=fednyc />

[[Penn South]] is a large limited-equity [[housing cooperative]] constructed in 1962 by the [[United Housing Foundation]] and financed by the [[International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union]]. The development includes 2,820 apartments and covers six city blocks between [[Eighth Avenue (Manhattan)|8th]] and [[Ninth Avenue (Manhattan)|9th Avenue]] and [[23rd Street (Manhattan)|23rd]] and [[29th Street (Manhattan)|29th Street]]. In 2012, there were 6,000 names on a waiting list of prospective residents looking to purchase a unit in the development.<ref>Buckley, Cara. [https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/20/nyregion/in-chelsea-a-rift-at-a-defiantly-low-priced-co-op.html "Soul-Searching at a Defiantly Affordable Co-op"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171007210052/http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/20/nyregion/in-chelsea-a-rift-at-a-defiantly-low-priced-co-op.html |date=October 7, 2017 }}, ''The New York Times'', April 19, 2011. Accessed September 1, 2017. "Founded by a labor union in 1962, Penn South has 2,820 units scattered over six blocks, still charges rock-bottom prices and once was so left-leaning that resident Communists pilloried resident Socialists.... The complex, which was sponsored by the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union and is formally known as the Mutual Redevelopment Houses, is one of the last of a breed of New York co-ops built for the working class.... Some 6,000 people are on the now-closed waiting list, and if history is any indication, many will die before getting in."</ref> Under the terms of agreements reached with the City of New York in 1986 and 2002, and separately with the [[United States Department of Housing and Urban Development]], Penn South's eligibility for tax abatements offered by the [[Mitchell-Lama Housing Program]] has been extended to 2052.<ref>[https://www.pennsouth.coop/penn-south-history.html History] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170902002537/https://www.pennsouth.coop/penn-south-history.html |date=September 2, 2017 }}, [[Penn South]]. Accessed September 1, 2017. "In April 2011 Penn South cooperators again voted in an advisory referendum to extend the contract with the City for an additional 8 years of tax abatement to 2030. In exchange, the City agreed to a package of over $25 million in financial aid to Penn South to help fund the replacement of the heating, ventilating, and air cooling system (HVAC). Most recently, to secure a $189 million refinance with HUD, Penn South shareholders voted to extend our contract for 22 additional years, through 2052."</ref>