Editing Chelsea, Manhattan (section)

==Culture==
{{Further|LGBTQ culture in New York City|Chelsea Arts District}}
People of many different cultures live in Chelsea. Chelsea is famous for having a [[Gay village|large LGBTQ population]], with one of Chelsea's census tracts reporting that 22% of its residents were gay couples,<ref name=WNYC-2010714/> and is known for its social diversity and inclusion.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Calhoun |first=Ada |date=December 6, 2013 |title=The Chelsea |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/08/books/review/inside-the-dream-palace-by-sherill-tippins.html |access-date=April 8, 2023 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Eighth Avenue is a center for LGBT-oriented shopping and dining, and from 16th to 22nd Streets between Ninth and Tenth Avenues, mid-nineteenth-century brick and brownstone townhouses are still occupied, a few even restored to single family use.<ref>[[New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission]] [http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/downloads/pdf/reports/CHELSEA_HISTORIC_DISTRICT.pdf "Chelsea Historic District Designation Report"] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121019023933/http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/downloads/pdf/reports/CHELSEA_HISTORIC_DISTRICT.pdf |date=October 19, 2012 }} NYCLPC (September 15, 1970)</ref><ref>Dibble., James E. [http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/downloads/pdf/reports/CHELSEA_HISTORIC_DISTRICT_EXTENSION.pdf "Chelsea Historic District Extension Designation Report"] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121019023941/http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/downloads/pdf/reports/CHELSEA_HISTORIC_DISTRICT_EXTENSION.pdf |date=October 19, 2012 }} [[New York Landmarks Preservation Commission]] (February 3, 1981)</ref>
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The stores of Chelsea reflect the ethnic and social diversity of the area's population. The Chelsea [[Lofts]] district&nbsp;– the former fur and flower district&nbsp;– is located roughly between Sixth and Seventh Avenues from 23rd to 30th streets.{{citation needed|date=November 2015}} The McBurney YMCA on West 23rd Street, commemorated in the hit [[Village People]] song ''[[Y.M.C.A. (song)|Y.M.C.A.]]'', sold its home and relocated in 2002 to a new facility on 14th Street, the neighborhood's southern border.<ref>Geberer, Raanan. [http://www.nypress.com/local-news/20150925/the-original-gilded-ymca/1 "The Original, Gilded YMCA"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151011120937/http://www.nypress.com/local-news/20150925/the-original-gilded-ymca/1 |date=October 11, 2015 }}, ''Chelsea News'', September 25, 2015. Accessed October 23, 2015. "The opening shots of the official "YMCA" video, however, might confuse some current Chelsea residents. You see a huge sign, 'McBurney YMCA,' but instead of today's familiar McBurney Y on West 14th Street, you see a different building. The older building, on West 23rd Street between 7th and 8th avenues, is still there, and was the home of the McBurney Y from 1904, when it was built, until 2002, when it moved to 14th Street."</ref>

By the late 20th and early 21st centuries, Chelsea had become an alternative shopping destination, starring the likes of [[Barneys New York|Barneys CO-OP]] — which replaced the much larger original Barneys flagship store — [[Comme des Garçons]], [[Balenciaga]] boutiques, [[Alexander McQueen]], [[Stella McCartney]], and [[Christian Louboutin]]. [[Chelsea Market]], on the ground floor of the former [[Nabisco]] Building, is a destination for food lovers.
In the late 1990s, New York's visual arts community began a gradual transition away from [[SoHo]], due to increasing rents and competition from upscale retailers for the large and airy spaces that [[Contemporary art gallery|art galleries]] require,<ref name=":1">{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/10/12/realestate/commercial-property-west-chelsea-ex-garages-attracting-art-galleries-from-soho.html |title=West Chelsea: Ex-Garages Attracting Art Galleries From Soho |last=Holusha |first=John |website=The New York Times |date=October 12, 1997 |access-date=October 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150527055158/https://www.nytimes.com/1997/10/12/realestate/commercial-property-west-chelsea-ex-garages-attracting-art-galleries-from-soho.html |archive-date=May 27, 2015}}</ref> and the area of West Chelsea between [[Tenth Avenue (Manhattan)|Tenth]] and [[Eleventh Avenue (Manhattan)|Eleventh]] Avenues and [[16th Street (Manhattan)|16th]] and [[28th Street (Manhattan)|28th]] Streets has become a new global centers of contemporary art, home to over 200 art galleries that are home to modern art from both upcoming and established artists.<ref>See:
* {{cite web |url=http://manhattan.about.com/od/neighborhoodguide/p/chelseaprofile.htm |title=Chelsea Neighborhood Profile |publisher=About.com |access-date=November 3, 2011 |archive-date=April 3, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150403081921/http://manhattan.about.com/od/neighborhoodguide/p/chelseaprofile.htm |url-status=live }}
* {{cite web |url=http://www.nyc.com/visitor_guide/chelsea.75816/editorial_review.aspx |title=Chelsea |publisher=NYC.com |access-date=November 3, 2011 |archive-date=November 3, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111103025313/http://www.nyc.com/visitor_guide/chelsea.75816/editorial_review.aspx |url-status=live }}
* [http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/stylish-traveler-chelsea-girls-september-2005 "Stylish Traveler: Chelsea Girls"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110524083444/http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/stylish-traveler-chelsea-girls-september-2005 |date=May 24, 2011 }}, ''[[Travel + Leisure]]'', September 2005. Accessed May 14, 2007. "With more than 200 galleries, Chelsea has plenty of variety. Here, eight of them that feature everything from paintings to sculpture, videos to installations."
* [http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/about/pr122004.shtml "City Planning Begins Public Review for West Chelsea Rezoning to Permit Housing Development and Create Mechanism for Preserving and Creating Access to the High Line"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070611184958/http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/about/pr122004.shtml |date=June 11, 2007 }}, Department of City Planning press release, December 20, 2004. "Some 200 galleries have opened their doors in recent years, making West Chelsea a destination for art lovers from around the City and the world."</ref> Along with the art galleries, Chelsea is home to the [[Rubin Museum of Art]], with a focus on Himalayan art; the [[Graffiti Research Lab]] and [[New York Live Arts]], a producing and presenting organization of dance and other movement-based arts. The community, in fact, is home to many highly regarded performance venues, among them the [[Joyce Theater]], one of the city's premier modern dance emporiums, and [[The Kitchen (art institution)|The Kitchen]], a center for cutting-edge theatrical and visual arts.
[[File:The_Rubin_Museum_of_Art_(49051574333).jpg|thumb|The [[Rubin Museum of Art]]]]
Above 23rd Street, by the [[Hudson River]], the neighborhood is post-industrial, featuring the elevated [[High Line]] viaduct, which follows the river all through Chelsea. The elevated rail line was the successor to the street-level freight line original built through Chelsea in 1847, which was the cause of numerous fatal accidents, so it was elevated in the early 1930s by the [[New York Central Railroad]]. It fell out of use in the 1960s through 1980 and was originally slated to be torn down, but in the early 2000s, it was redesigned and converted into a highly used aerial [[greenway (landscape)|greenway]] and [[rail trail|rails-to-trails]] park.
<ref name=":0">Brazee, Christopher D. and Most, Jennifer L. et al. [http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/downloads/pdf/reports/WestChelsea_REPORT.pdf "West Chelsea Historic District Designation Report"] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081221105551/http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/downloads/pdf/reports/WestChelsea_REPORT.pdf |date=December 21, 2008 }} [[New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission]] (July 15, 2008)</ref> With a change in zoning resolution in conjunction with the development of the High Line, Chelsea experienced a new construction boom, with projects by notable architects such as [[Shigeru Ban]], [[Neil Denari]], [[Jean Nouvel]], and [[Frank Gehry]]. The neighborhood was quickly gentrifying, with small businesses being replaced by big-box retailers and technology and fashion stores.<ref name=NYT2015/> With this development, more wealthy residents moved in, further widening an already-existing income gap with public-housing residents. In 2015, the average yearly household income in most of Chelsea was about $140,000. On the other hand, in the area's two public-housing developments&nbsp;– the Chelsea-Elliot Houses, between 25th Street, Ninth Avenue, 28th Street, and Tenth Avenue; and Fulton Houses, between 16th Street, Ninth Avenue, 19th Street, and Tenth Avenue&nbsp;– the average income was less than $30,000.<ref name=NYT2015/> At the same time, the area's [[Puerto Rico|Puerto Rican]] enclaves and rent-subsidized housing, especially in [[Penn South]], was being replaced by high-rent studios. This resulted in large income disparities across the neighborhood; one block in particular&nbsp;– 25th Street between 9th and 10th Avenues&nbsp;– had the Elliot Houses on its north side and two million-dollar residences on its south side.<ref name=NYT2015/>

The Chelsea neighborhood is served by two weekly newspapers: the ''Chelsea-Clinton News'' and ''Chelsea Now''.{{dubious|date=February 2024}}

''West Chelsea'' refers to the western portion of Chelsea, previously known as Gasoline Alley,<ref>Moss, Jeremiah. Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul. 2017, page 236.</ref> much of which was previously a manufacturing area and has since been rezoned to allow for high-rise residential uses. It is often considered the area of Chelsea between the Hudson River to the west and Tenth Avenue to the east, a portion of which was designated a [[West Chelsea Historic District|historic district]] in 2008.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www1.nyc.gov/assets/planning/download/pdf/plans/west-chelsea/wc_chap07_historicresources_feis.pdf |title=Special West Chelsea District Rezoning and High Line Open Space EIS – Chapter 7: Historic Resources |access-date=March 16, 2018 |archive-date=February 12, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170212073940/http://www1.nyc.gov/assets/planning/download/pdf/plans/west-chelsea/wc_chap07_historicresources_feis.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> A 2008 article in ''[[The New York Times]]'' showed the eastern boundary of West Chelsea as [[Eighth Avenue (Manhattan)|Eighth Avenue]] for the area between 14th and 23rd streets, [[Ninth Avenue (Manhattan)|Ninth Avenue]] between 23rd and 25th, and [[Tenth Avenue (Manhattan)|Tenth Avenue]] between 25th and 29th.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/realestate/06livi.html |title=Galleries and High-Line Views |newspaper=The New York Times |date=January 6, 2008 |access-date=March 22, 2018 |archive-date=March 17, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180317040130/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/realestate/06livi.html |url-status=live |last1=Hughes |first1=C. J. }}</ref><ref>[https://static01.nyt.com/images/2008/01/05/realestate/190-livi-map.jpg West Chelsea map] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180316202627/https://static01.nyt.com/images/2008/01/05/realestate/190-livi-map.jpg |date=March 16, 2018 }}, from "Galleries and High-Line Views"</ref>