Editing Chelsea, Manhattan (section)

=== Late 20th century to present ===
The industrial character of West Chelsea declined in the 1960s and 1970s, as industries started to relocate from Manhattan.<ref name=":0" />{{Rp|page=24}} In subsequent years, the area's redevelopment was concentrated around West Chelsea,<ref name="nyt-2018-02-14">{{Cite news |last=Jacobson |first=Aileen |date=February 14, 2018 |title=East Chelsea, Manhattan: Once Industrial, Now Residential |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/14/realestate/living-in-east-chelsea-manhattan.html |access-date=April 8, 2023 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> and some of the old industrial structures were converted to nightclubs.<ref name=":0" />{{Rp|page=24}}<ref name="nyt-1987-10-16" /> These included Les Mouches (housed in a former [[Otis Worldwide|Otis Elevator Company]] factory) and [[Tunnel (New York nightclub)|the Tunnel]] (housed in the Central Stores building on 11th Avenue).<ref name=":0" />{{Rp|page=24}} Many LGBTQ people started moving to Chelsea in the mid-1980s, and upscale restaurants and stores began opening in the neighborhood around the same time.<ref name="nyt-2000-04-16">{{Cite news |last=Malbin |first=Peter |date=April 16, 2000 |title=If You're Thinking of Living In/Chelsea; Strikingly Changed, But Still Diverse |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/16/realestate/if-you-re-thinking-of-living-in-chelsea-strikingly-changed-but-still-diverse.html |access-date=April 8, 2023 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> By then, the neighborhood also contained some of New York City's "cutting-edge theaters and performance spaces" according to ''The New York Times''.<ref name="nyt-1987-10-16" /> By the late 1990s, West Chelsea had also begun to attract visual-arts galleries that had relocated from [[SoHo]].<ref name=":0" />{{Rp|page=25}}<ref name=":1" />

On September 17, 2016, there was [[2016 New York and New Jersey bombings|an explosion]] outside a building on 23rd Street, which injured 29 people; police located and removed a second, undetonated [[pressure cooker bomb]] on 27th Street.<ref>{{cite news |last=Simon |first=Mallory |title=New York explosion leaves dozens injured |url=http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/17/us/new-york-explosion/ |publisher=CNN |date=September 17, 2016 |access-date=September 17, 2016 |archive-date=September 18, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160918160112/http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/17/us/new-york-explosion/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |first1=Rick |last1=Schapiro |first2=Edgar |last2=Sandoval |first3=Nicole |last3=Hensley |first4=Ginger Adams |last4=Otis |first5=Rocco |last5=Parascandola |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/manhattan/blast-rips-chelsea-street-started-running-article-1.2796382 |title=Explosive fireball erupts from dumpster on Chelsea street injuring 29, secondary pressure cooking device found blocks away |work=The New York Daily News |date=September 18, 2016 |access-date=September 18, 2016 |archive-date=October 31, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171031235737/http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/manhattan/blast-rips-chelsea-street-started-running-article-1.2796382 |url-status=live }}</ref> A suspect, [[2016 New York and New Jersey bombings#Suspect|Ahmad Khan Rahami]], was captured two days later after a gunfight in [[Linden, New Jersey]].<ref>Santora, Marc; Rashbaum, William K.; Baker, Al; and Goldman, Adam. [https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/20/nyregion/nyc-nj-explosions-ahmad-khan-rahami.html "Ahmad Khan Rahami Is Arrested in Manhattan and New Jersey Bombings"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160919124409/http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/20/nyregion/nyc-nj-explosions-ahmad-khan-rahami.html |date=September 19, 2016 }}, ''The New York Times'', September 19, 2016. Accessed September 19, 2016. "The man who the police said sowed terror across two states, setting off bombs in Manhattan and on the Jersey Shore and touching off a furious manhunt, was tracked down on Monday morning sleeping in the dank doorway of a neighborhood bar and taken into custody after being wounded in a gun battle with officers. The frenzied end came on a rain-soaked street in Linden, N.J., four hours after the police issued an unprecedented cellphone alert to millions of people in the area telling them to be on the lookout for Ahmad Khan Rahami, 28, who was described as 'armed and dangerous.'"</ref>

By the late 2010s, the eastern part of Chelsea, which had once been largely industrial, had also attracted upscale residential development.<ref name="nyt-2018-02-14" />