Editing Chelsea, Manhattan (section)

==Landmarks and places of interest==
===Culinary===
[[File:Chelsea_Market_(49052085186).jpg|thumb|[[Chelsea Market]] contains a popular [[food hall]]]]
The [[Chelsea Market]], located in a restored historic [[Nabisco]] factory and headquarters, is a festival marketplace that hosts a variety of shopping and dining options, including bakeries, restaurants, a fish market, wine store, and many others.<ref>Martinelli, Katherine. [https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/factory-oreos-built-180969121/ "The Factory That Oreos Built; A new owner for the New York City landmark offers a tasty opportunity to recap a crème-filled history"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190925064824/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/factory-oreos-built-180969121/ |date=September 25, 2019 }}, ''[[Smithsonian (magazine)]]'', May 21, 2018. Accessed October 2, 2019. "If walls could speak, the brick at New York's Chelsea Market would have more than a few stories to tell. Alphabet (the parent company of Google) purchased the building in March of 2018 for $2.4 billion—an earth-shattering figure even in New York City's real estate market—but this isn't a glittering, 21st-century beacon, a symbol of the ingenuity of Silicon Valley. In reality, the looming brick structure remains largely the same as it did more than a century ago, when it served as headquarters for the iconic snack company Nabisco."</ref>

[[Peter McManus Cafe]], a bar and restaurant on Seventh Avenue at 19th Street, is among the oldest family-owned and -operated bars in the city.

The [[Empire Diner]] was an [[art moderne]] diner at 210 Tenth Avenue at 22nd Street that appeared in several movies and was mentioned in [[Billy Joel]]'s song "Great Wall of China". Designed by [[Fodero Dining Car Company]], it was built in 1946 and was altered in 1979 by Carl Laanes. The diner closed on May 15, 2010; reopened briefly as "The Highliner", and again re-opened under its original name in January 2014<ref>Preston, Marguerite. [http://ny.eater.com/archives/2014/01/empire_diner_amanda_freitags_revamp_of_the_retro_icon.php "Empire Diner, Amanda Freitag's Revamp of the Retro Icon"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141017071702/http://ny.eater.com/2014/1/7/6301573/empire-diner-amanda-freitags-revamp-of-the-retro-icon|date=October 17, 2014}} ''Eater'' (January 7, 2014)</ref> before closing permanently in December 2015 due to failure to pay rent.<ref>{{cite web |title=Chelsea's 'Empire Diner' Forced to Close Again Amid Rent Struggles – Chelsea – DNAinfo New York |url=https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20151217/chelsea/chelseas-empire-diner-forced-close-again-amid-rent-struggles |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161016194112/https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20151217/chelsea/chelseas-empire-diner-forced-close-again-amid-rent-struggles |archive-date=October 16, 2016 |access-date=October 10, 2016}}</ref>

===Cultural===
[[Pike's Opera House]] was built in 1868, and bought the next year by [[James Fisk (financier)|James Fisk]] and [[Jay Gould]], who renamed it the '''Grand Opera House'''. Located on the corner of Eighth Avenue and 23rd Street, it survived until 1960 as an [[RKO]] movie theater.<ref name=fednyc />

The [[Irish Repertory Theatre]] is an [[Off-Broadway theatre|Off-Broadway]] theatrical company on West 22nd Street producing plays by Irish and Irish-American writers.

The [[Joyce Theater]], located in the former [[Elgin Theater]] at 175 Eighth Avenue, near 19th Street, is in a 1941 movie house that closed in 1978. The Elgin was completely renovated to create in the Joyce a venue suitable for dance, and was reopened in 1982.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Kisselgoff |first=Anna |title=Creating A Theater Just for Dance |newspaper=The New York Times |date=July 26, 1981 |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F03EFD9163BF935A15754C0A967948260&sec=&spon=&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink |access-date=May 4, 2008 |archive-date=March 7, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220307035838/https://www.nytimes.com/1981/07/26/arts/creating-a-theater-just-for-dance.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[The Kitchen (art institution)|The Kitchen]] is a performance space at 512 West 19th Street. It was founded in [[Greenwich Village]] in 1971 by [[Steina and Woody Vasulka]], taking its name from the original location, the kitchen of the [[Mercer Arts Center]].<ref>{{Cite news |author=Rachel Lee Harris |date=March 29, 2012 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/30/arts/design/artists-in-dialogue-at-the-kitchen.html |title=Artists in Dialogue at the Kitchen |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=September 28, 2014 |archive-date=June 23, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150623123647/http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/30/arts/design/artists-in-dialogue-at-the-kitchen.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

The warehouse building at 530 West 27th Street, which was the site of The Sound Factory & [[Twilo]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/rip-richard-grantfounder-of-nyc-after-hours-institution-sound-factory/ |title=RIP Richard Grant – Founder of NYC After-Hours Institution Sound Factory – VICE<!-- Bot generated title --> |date=January 22, 2015 |access-date=January 16, 2019 |archive-date=January 16, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190116201029/https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/jpn3gx/rip-richard-grantfounder-of-nyc-after-hours-institution-sound-factory |url-status=live }}</ref> as well as several other megaclubs in the 1980s and 1990s, was acquired in 2011 by the British theater company [[Punchdrunk]], who converted it into "[[McKittrick Hotel|The McKittrick Hotel]]", a five-story, {{cvt|100000|sqft|m2|adj=on}} performance space housing their immersive site-specific theatrical production, [[Sleep No More (2011 play)|''Sleep No More'']]. The building, along with those at 532 and 542 West 27th Street, was also the location of several restaurants and event venues, and featured other shows such as 'Speakeasy Magick', featuring Todd Robbins, Jason Suran, and Matthew Holtzclaw.<ref>[[Ben Brantley|Brantley, Ben]] (April 13, 2011) [https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/14/theater/reviews/sleep-no-more-is-a-macbeth-in-a-hotel-review.html "Shakespeare Slept Here, Albeit Fitfully"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170827151330/http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/14/theater/reviews/sleep-no-more-is-a-macbeth-in-a-hotel-review.html |date=August 27, 2017 }} ''The New York Times''</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.mckittrickhotel.com/ |title=The McKittrick Hotel website |access-date=March 22, 2017 |archive-date=March 24, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170324085548/http://www.mckittrickhotel.com/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/off-broadway/article/The-McKittrick-Announces-Additional-Performance-of-SPEAKEASY-MAGICK-20190528 |title=The McKittrick Announces Additional Performance of SPEAKEASY MAGICK<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=August 24, 2019 |archive-date=August 24, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190824232746/https://www.broadwayworld.com/off-broadway/article/The-McKittrick-Announces-Additional-Performance-of-SPEAKEASY-MAGICK-20190528 |url-status=live }}</ref> The McKittrick and associated spaces closed in 2025 following the end of ''Sleep No More''<nowiki/>'s theatrical run.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sleep No More Closes Off-Broadway January 5 |url=https://playbill.com/article/sleep-no-more-closes-off-broadway-january-5 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20250210231619/https://playbill.com/article/sleep-no-more-closes-off-broadway-january-5 |archive-date=February 10, 2025 |access-date=May 15, 2025 |website=Playbill |language=en-US}}</ref>

[[New York Live Arts]] is a dance organization located at 219 West 19th Street between 7th and 8th Avenues.<ref>{{cite news |last=Taylor |first=Kate |title=Dance Theater Merges With Bill T. Jones Troupe |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/02/arts/dance/02workshop.html |access-date=December 30, 2012 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=December 1, 2010 |archive-date=October 21, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121021064553/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/02/arts/dance/02workshop.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

The [[Rubin Museum of Art]] is a museum dedicated to the collection, display, and preservation of the art of the Himalayas and surrounding regions, especially that of Tibet. It was located at 150 West 17th Street between Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Avenue) and Seventh Avenue. While the museum still exists as an institution, its Chelsea building closed on October 6, 2024.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Nasseri |first=Visuals by Sinna |last2=Aguiar |first2=Text by Annie |date=October 9, 2024 |title=Audience Report: Gongs and Goodbyes as the Rubin Museum Shuts Its Doors |url=https://www.nytimes.com/card/2024/10/09/arts/design/rubin-museum-closed |access-date=May 15, 2025 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

[[File:Edificio_IAC_InterActiveCorp.JPG|thumb|[[IAC Inc.|InterActiveCorp]] headquarters on Eleventh Avenue, designed by [[Frank Gehry]]]]

===Industrial and commercial===
[[Google]]'s New York office occupies [[111 Eighth Avenue]], which takes up the full city block between 15th and 16th Streets and between Eighth and Ninth Avenues. The building was once Inland Terminal 1 of the [[Port Authority of New York and New Jersey]].<ref>Weiss, Lois. [https://nypost.com/2010/12/03/googles-search-ends/ "Google's Search Ends"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170320173717/http://nypost.com/2010/12/03/googles-search-ends/ |date=March 20, 2017 }} ''[[New York Post]]'' (December 3, 2010)</ref>

The [[Starrett-Lehigh Building]], a huge full-block freight terminal and warehouse on West 26th Street between Eleventh and Twelfth Avenues, was built in 1930–1931 as a joint venture of the Starett real estate firm and the [[Lehigh Valley Railroad]]. Designed by Cory & Cory to enable trains to pull into the ground floor of the building, it was one of only a few American buildings included in the [[Museum of Modern Art]]'s 1932 "[[International style (architecture)|International Style]]" exhibition. It was designated a [[List of New York City Landmarks|New York City landmark]] in 1966.<ref name=nycland />
[[File:Starrett_Lehigh_Building_NY1.jpg|thumb|The [[Starrett–Lehigh Building]] with the rising skyscrapers of [[Hudson Yards (development)|Hudson Yards]] rising in the background]]
The [[Hudson Yards (development)|Hudson Yards]] rail-yard development is located at the northern edge of Chelsea, within the [[Hudson Yards Redevelopment|Hudson Yards neighborhood]]. The project's centerpiece is a mixed-use real estate development by [[Related Companies]]. According to its master plan, created by master planner [[Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates]], Hudson Yards is expected to consist of 16 skyscrapers containing more than {{cvt|1.27|e6sqft|m2}} of new office, residential, and retail space. Among its components will be {{cvt|6|e6sqft|m2}} of commercial office space, a {{cvt|750000|sqft|m2|adj=on}} retail center with two levels of restaurants, cafes, markets and bars, a hotel, a cultural space, about 5,000 residences, a 750-seat school, and {{cvt|14|acres|ha}} of public open space. The development, located mainly above and around the [[West Side Yard]], will create a new neighborhood that overlaps with Chelsea and Hell's Kitchen.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.engadget.com/2014/05/07/hudson-yards-smart-neighborhood/ |title=New York's next big neighborhood is its smartest |author=Volpe, Joseph |work=[[Engadget]] |date=May 7, 2014 |access-date=May 9, 2014 |archive-date=May 8, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140508005336/http://www.engadget.com/2014/05/07/hudson-yards-smart-neighborhood/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

===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>

===Other===
[[File:New_York_City_Chelsea_Piers-20120519-RM-170114.jpg|thumb|The Chelsea Piers, New York City's primary luxury [[ocean liner]] terminal from 1910 until 1935]]
The [[Chelsea Piers]] were the city's primary luxury ocean liner terminal from 1910 until 1935, when the growing size of ships made the complex inadequate. The [[RMS Titanic|RMS ''Titanic'']] was headed to Pier 60 at the piers and the [[RMS Carpathia|RMS ''Carpathia'']] brought survivors to Pier 54 in the complex, which was destroyed in 2018 although ironwork remains. The northern piers are now part of an entertainment and sports complex operated by [[Roland W. Betts]], and the southern piers are part of [[Hudson River Park]].<ref>[[Peter Vecsey (sports columnist)|Vecsey, Pete]]. [https://books.google.com/books?id=U-MCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA63 "Piers Without Peer"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191223083055/https://books.google.com/books?id=U-MCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA63 |date=December 23, 2019 }}, p. 63, ''[[New York (magazine)]]'', December 19, 1994. Accessed May 20, 2016.</ref> The Hudson River Park, designed as a joint city/state park with non-traditional uses, runs along the Hudson River waterfront from [[59th Street (Manhattan)|59th Street]] to the Battery and comprises most of the associated piers.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Martin |first1=Douglas |title=Hudson Park Draws Closer To Reality; Proponents Celebrate Approval by Albany |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/30/nyregion/hudson-park-draws-closer-to-reality-proponents-celebrate-approval-by-albany.html?pagewanted=all |website=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=March 30, 2015 |date=July 30, 1998 |archive-date=April 2, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402180642/http://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/30/nyregion/hudson-park-draws-closer-to-reality-proponents-celebrate-approval-by-albany.html?pagewanted=all |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[Chelsea Park]] is located between 9th and 10th Avenues, and between 27th and 28th Streets. It contains baseball diamonds, basketball courts and six handball courts.<ref>{{cite web |title=Chelsea Park |publisher=NYC Parks |url=https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/chelsea-park |access-date=October 30, 2017 |archive-date=February 3, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180203033527/https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/chelsea-park |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[Chelsea Studios]], a [[sound stage]] on 26th Street, has been operating since 1914, and numerous movies and television shows have been produced there.<ref>Fry, Andy. [http://www.kftv.com/news/2014/12/17/nyc-studios "NYC studios can cater for growing production"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624032256/http://www.kftv.com/news/2014/12/17/nyc-studios |date=June 24, 2016 }}, [[Kemps Film and TV Production Services Handbook|KFTV]], December 17, 2014. Accessed May 20, 2016. "Another Manhattan-based venue, Chelsea Studios was formed in 1914 and hosted some high-profile productions during the 1950s and 1960s (12 Angry Men, The Phil Silvers Show)."</ref>

The [[Church of the Holy Apostles (Manhattan)|Church of the Holy Apostles]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.holyapostlesnyc.org/ |title=Church of the Holy Apostles website |access-date=July 25, 2009 |archive-date=August 26, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090826174142/http://www.holyapostlesnyc.org/ |url-status=live }}</ref> was built in 1845–1848 to a design by [[Minard Lefever]], with additions by Lefever in 1853–1854, and [[transept]]s by [[Charles Babcock (architect)|Charles Babcock]] added in 1858, this [[Italianate architecture|Italianate]] church was designated a [[List of New York City Landmarks|New York City landmark]] in 1966 and is listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]]. It is Lefever's only surviving building in Manhattan. The building, which featured an octagonal spire,<ref>[http://www.nyc-architecture.com/CHE/CHE022-ChurchoftheHolyApostles.htm "Church of the Holy Apostle"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091116094941/http://www.nyc-architecture.com/CHE/CHE022-ChurchoftheHolyApostles.htm |date=November 16, 2009 }} on ''New York Architecture''</ref> was burned in a serious fire in 1990, but [[stained glass windows]] by [[William Jay Bolton]] survived, and the church reopened in April 1994 after a major restoration.<ref name=nycland /> The Episcopal parish is notable for hosting the city's largest program to feed the poor,<ref>{{cite news |title=Blessed Is the Full Plate |first=Anna |last=Quindlen |url=http://www.newsweek.com/id/70982 |magazine=Newsweek |date=November 17, 2007 |access-date=November 3, 2011 |archive-date=October 11, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011062403/http://www.newsweek.com/id/70982 |url-status=live }}</ref> and is the second and larger home of the [[LGBTQ]]-oriented synagogue, Congregation Beth Simchat Torah.<ref>[http://www.lgbtran.org/Exhibits/CBST/index.aspx "Congregation Beth Simchat Torah"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090121205219/http://www.lgbtran.org/Exhibits/CBST/index.aspx |date=January 21, 2009 }} on ''LGBT Religious Archives Network''</ref>

[[General Theological Seminary|The General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church]]'s college-like close is sometimes called "Chelsea Square". It consists of a city block of tree-shaded lawns between Ninth and Tenth Avenues and West 20th and 21st Streets. The campus is ringed by more than a dozen brick and brownstone buildings in [[Gothic Revival]] style. The oldest building on the campus dates from 1836. Most of the rest were designed as a group by architect [[Charles Coolidge Haight]], under the guidance of the Dean, Augustus Hoffman.<ref>Gray, Christopher. [https://www.nytimes.com/1988/05/01/realestate/streetscapes-general-theological-seminary-restoration-drive-begun-for-chelsea.html "Streetscapes: General Theological Seminary; Restoration Drive Begun For Chelsea Landmark"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161016193046/http://www.nytimes.com/1988/05/01/realestate/streetscapes-general-theological-seminary-restoration-drive-begun-for-chelsea.html |date=October 16, 2016 }}, ''The New York Times'', May 1, 1988. Accessed May 20, 2016.</ref>{{clear left}}