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Manhattan 1999-2000 and 2001-2007
| Chelsea Gallery District Chelsea is the center of the contemporary art market in New York and possibly the world. Other areas in New York, such as Williamsburg in Brooklyn, have built strong centers of artists and galleries, but the most successful galleries tend to eventually gravitate to the large audience that can be reached in Chelsea (e.g. Bellwether, Winkleman / Plus Ultra Gallery, Schroeder Romero, Foxy Production, Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, and Monya Rowe, all of which have moved from Williamsburg to Chelsea). The Chelsea Gallery District is roughly confined by 29th street in the North, 13th street in the South, 11th Avenue in the West, and 7th Avenue in the East. The three blocks with the highest concentration of well known galleries are 22nd, 24th, and 25th streets between 10th and 11th Avenue. |
| Gallery List: Chelsea Art Galleries Galleries on West 27th Street Aperture Foundation & Gallery Art Gotham ATM Gallery Bespoke Gallery Ceres Gallery Clementine Gallery John Connelly Presents Dinter Fine Art Derek Eller Gallery Flomenhaft Gallery Foley Gallery Foxy Production Galerie Adler Galerie Poller M.Y. Art Prospects Oliver Kamm / 5BE Gallery Paul Kasmin Gallery Priska C. Juschka Fine Art Schroeder Romero Wallspace Chelsea Art Galleries Galleries on West 26th Street 2x13 Gallery Andrea Meislin Gallery Bose Pacia Gallery BravinLee Programs Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery Caelum Gallery Capsule Chappell Gallery Danziger Projects David Krut Esso Gallery First Street Gallery Galerie Lelong George Adams Gallery Gray Kapernekas Gallery Greene Naftali G.R. N'Namdi Gallery Hudson Franklin James Cohan Gallery Jeffrey Coploff Fine Art Ltd. Jenkins Johnson Gallery Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts Lehmann Maupin Lucas Schoormans Gallery Marvelli Gallery Massimo Audiello Michael Steinberg Fine Art Mixed Greens Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery Robert Miller Gallery Roebling Hall Rush Arts Gallery Sara Meltzer Gallery Sherry French Gallery Stephen Haller Gallery Thomas Erben Gallery Thomas Werner Gallery Chelsea Art Galleries Galleries on West 25th Street Agora Gallery Alan Klotz Gallery Amos Eno Gallery Amsterdam Whitney International Fine Art Betty Cuningham Gallery Bortolami Dayan Bowery Gallery Brenda Taylor Gallery Cheim & Read Clampart Cue Art Foundation Daniel Cooney Fine Art Deborah Bell Photographs Dillon Gallery Feature, Inc. Florence Lynch Gallery Gallery Henoch George Billis Gallery Grimm | Rosenfeld In Camera J. Cacciola Gallery Jeff Bailey Gallery Kashya Hildebrand Gallery Kent Gallery Larissa Goldston Gallery Lennon Weinberg, Inc. Lyons Wier - Ortt McKenzie Fine Art Nabi Gallery Nancy Margolis Gallery Neptune Fine Art NOHO Gallery Pace Wildenstein Paul Morris Gallery Pleiades Gallery PPOW Prince Street Gallery Robert Steele Gallery Sandra Gering Gallery Sarah Morthland Gallery Soho20 Gallery Stricoff Fine Art Stux Gallery Viridian Artists Von Lintel Gallery Yossi Milo Gallery Yvon Lambert Gallery ZieherSmith, Inc. Chelsea Art Galleries Galleries on West 24th Street Andrea Rosen Gallery Baumgartner Gallery Charles Cowles Gallery Danese DCKT Contemporary Fredericks & Freiser Freight + Volume Gagosian Gallery Galeria Ramis Barquet Gladstone Gallery Luhring Augustine Gallery Marianne Boesky Gallery Mary Boone Gallery Matthew Marks Gallery Metro Pictures Mike Weiss Gallery Perry Rubenstein Gallery Reeves Contemporary Sepia / The Alkazi Collection Silverstein Photography Stellan Holm Gallery Zach Feuer Gallery Chelsea Art Galleries Galleries on West 23rd Street BUIA Gallery Caren Golden Fine Art Daniel Reich Gallery Goff + Rosenthal Heidi Cho Gallery I-20 Gallery Jim Kempner Fine Art John Stevenson Gallery Leo Koenig, Inc. Pavel Zoubok Gallery Perry Rubenstein Gallery Steven Kasher Gallery Van de Weghe Fine Art |
| The High Line: runs from 34th and 10th to 14th and 10th. Bridging the street here is a disused elevated railroad that was used to transport freight along the Westside waterfront, replacing the street-level tracks at 10th and 11th avenues that earned those roads the nickname "Death Avenue." Built in 1929 at a cost of $150 million (more than $2 billion in today's dollars), it originally stretched from 35th Street to St. John's Park Terminal, now the Holland Tunnel rotary. Partially torn down in 1960 and abandoned in 1980, it now stretches from Gansevoort almost to 34th--mostly running mid-block, so built to avoid dominating an avenue with an elevated platform. In its abandonment, the High Line became something of a natural wonder, overgrown with weeds and even trees, accessible only to those who risk trespassing on CSX Railroad property. Plans are underway to turn it into a park, open to the public; it will be a tricky balancing act to add safety and amenities without sacrificing the lost ruin quality that makes it so cool. |
| Chelsea is a neighborhood on the West Side of the New York City borough of Manhattan, USA. It is located to the south of Hell's Kitchen and the Garment District, north of Greenwich Village, and north to northeast of the Meatpacking District that centers on West 14th Street. The neighborhood is part of Manhattan Community Board 4. |
| History: Chelsea takes its name from the Federal-style house of the Moore family, named after the manor of Chelsea, which was home to Sir Thomas More. The house was the birthplace of Clement Clarke Moore, who is more often credited with "A Visit From St. Nicholas"— which he may have authored— than with the first Greek and Hebrew lexicons printed in the United States, which he certainly authored. "Chelsea" stood surrounded by its gardens on a full block between Ninth and Tenth Avenues south of 23rd Street until it was replaced by high quality row houses in the mid-19th century. The former rural charm of the neighborhood was tarnished by the freight railroad right-of-way of the Hudson River Railroad, which laid its tracks up Tenth and Eleventh Avenues in 1847 and separated Chelsea from the Hudson River waterfront. Clement Clarke Moore gave the land of his apple orchard for the General Theological Seminary, which built its brownstone Gothic tree-shaded campus south of "Chelsea." By 1900, the neighborhood was solidly Irish and housed the longshoremen who unloaded freighters at warehouse piers that lined the waterfront and the truck terminals integrated with the raised freight railroad spur. The film On the Waterfront (1954) recreates this tough world, dramatized in Richard Rodgers' 1936 jazz ballet Slaughter on Tenth Avenue. Chelsea was an early center for the motion picture industry before World War I. Some of Mary Pickford's first pictures were made on the top floors of an armory building on West 26th Street. London Terrace was one of the world's largest apartment blocks when it opened in 1930, with a swimming pool, solarium, gymnasium, and doormen dressed as London bobbies. Traditionally, Chelsea was bounded by Eighth Avenue, but in 1883 the apartment block, soon transformed to Hotel Chelsea helped extend it past Seventh Avenue and now it runs as far east as Broadway. The neighborhood is primarily residential with a mix of tenements, apartment blocks and rehabilitated warehousing, and its many businesses reflect that: ethnic restaurants, delis and clothing boutiques are plentiful. Tekserve, the vast computer repair shop that strongly influenced Apple's Retail Store and Genius Bar concept, serves nearby Silicon Alley and the area's large creative community. Chelsea has a large gay population, stereotyped as gym-toned "Chelsea boys." Since the mid-1990s, Chelsea has become a center of the New York art scene, as an increasing number of art galleries have moved there from SoHo. NYC home for Google is in the old Port-Authority 8th Ave. & 16th. |
| Culture: Chelsea has recently become a melting pot of many cultures. Above 23rd Street, by the Hudson River, most of Chelsea is still industrialized, and the forgotten High Line follows the river all through Chelsea. Eighth Avenue is a center for gay culture, and from 20th to 22nd street between Ninth and Tenth avenue, historic brownstones built over a hundred years ago are still being used. From 16th Street to 27th Street, between 10th and 11th Avenues, there are more than 200 art galleries that are home to modern art from upcoming artists and respected artists as well. Along with the art galleries, Chelsea is also home to the somewhat well known Graffiti Research Lab. There are many new developments in Chelsea, including a new building built by Frank Gehry. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977 (District #77000954). |
| Landmarks: * Chelsea Piers - The Chelsea Piers were the city's primary luxury cruise terminal from 1910 until 1935. The RMS Titanic was headed to Pier 60 at the piers and the RMS Carpathia brought survivors to Pier 54 in the complex. The northern piers are now part of an entertainment and sports complex operated by George W. Bush fraternity brother Roland W. Betts. * Hotel Chelsea - The hotel attracted attention to the neighborhood with its involvement in the death of Dylan Thomas in 1953 and, also, the slaying of Nancy Spungen by "accused" Sid Vicious in 1978. The Hotel has been the home of numerous celebrities and the subject of books, films (Chelsea Girls, 1966) and music. * Hudson River Park - The entire Hudson River waterfront from 59th Street to the Battery including most of associated piers are now a combination state and city park and are undergoing a massive renovation. * High Line - The High Line is an elevated rail line that was once used to handle freight from the waterfront. Originally slated to be torn down because it created an industrial atmosphere in the neighborhood it is now being converted into an elevated park by New York Architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro. * London Terrace - The apartment complex on West 23rd was one of the world's largest apartment blocks when it opened in 1930, with a swimming pool, solarium, gymnasium, and doormen dressed as London bobbies. * Penn South - A large limited-equity housing cooperative built by the United Housing Foundation and financed by the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union covering six city blocks, between 8th and 9th Avenue and 23rd and 29th Street. |
| The General Theological Seminary, the oldest Seminary of the Episcopal Church, was founded in 1817 and has been a New York City landmark since 1826. |
Hotel Chelsea
Weekend on the Hudson Piers in NYC Summers
Looking north on Eight Avenue at 15th Street
High Line before development
Chelsea Market
Entrance to Chelsea Market, also home to the Food Network
Terminal Warehouse home to many Galleries
New building built by Frank Gehry on Eleventh Avenue.
Typical Gallery in Chelsea
London Terrace west 23 & west 24 between 9th and 10
Life on west 25th in Manhattan, NYC; U.S.A. August 2005-July 2007
Chelsea Piers on the left, south of that is former Nabisco now Chelsea Market; right of that is Google NYC & NY 1
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Chelsea Piers
| Chelsea Art Galleries Galleries on West 22nd Street 303 Gallery Andrew Kreps Gallery Chelsea Art Museum CRG Gallery D'Amelio Terras DCA Gallery Dia: Chelsea Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) Envoy Frederieke Taylor Gallery Friedrich Petzel Gallery Haswellediger Julie Saul Gallery Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects Max Protetch Newman Popiashvili Gallery The Proposition Sikkema Jenkins & Co. Sonnabend Gallery Susan Inglett Gallery Taxter & Spengemann Yancey Richardson Gallery Chelsea Art Galleries Galleries on West 21st Street Anna Kustera Casey Kaplan EYEBEAM Kravets / Wehby Gallery Kustera Tilton Gallery Paula Cooper Gallery Peter Hay Halpert Fine Art Tanya Bonakdar Gallery Chelsea Art Galleries Galleries on West 20th Street 511 Gallery ACA Galleries Andrew Edlin Gallery Anton Kern Gallery ATM Gallery Bitforms Gallery Cristinerose Gallery Denise Bibro Fine Art Dorfman Projects Elizabeth Dee Elizabeth Harris Hasted Hunt Howard Scott Gallery Jack Shainman Gallery Jonathan LeVine Gallery Josee Bienvenu Gallery Kathryn Markel Fine Arts Kim Foster Gallery Kinz, Tillou + Feigen Maya Stendhal Gallery Paul Rodgers / 9W Gallery Remy Toledo Gallery Rico/Maresca Gallery Skoto Gallery Spike Gallery |
| When the Educational Foundation for the Fashion Industries opened in 1944, it was housed on a few floors of the High School for the Needle Trades at 24th Street and 8th Avenue. As the “needle trades” evolved, so too has the school that became the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), which is now a part of the State University of New York system. FIT moved into its current complex of buildings (designed by DeYoung and Moscovitz and bound by 26th and 28th streets and 7th and 8th avenues) in 1975, and had periodic smaller campus additions in the 1980s. |
| Chelsea Market: At the National Biscuit Company complex, begun in the 1890's in what is now west Chelsea, the ovens baked everything from Saltines to Oreos. Those ovens went cold a half century ago, when the company moved out, but newer ovens have been working over the last decade in part of that old complex - at Chelsea Market, from Ninth to 10th Avenue and 15th to 16th Street. A visit to the market offers ghostly evocations of the site's history. In 1890, eight large eastern bakeries amalgamated to form the New York Biscuit Company and soon absorbed a dozen more firms. It was competing against another consortium, the American Biscuit and Manufacturing Company in Chicago. The New York Biscuit Company immediately began building a Romanesque-style complex of six-story bakeries on the east side of 10th Avenue, running from 15th to 16th Street, designed by Romeyn & Stever - some of these survive at midblock. The rivalry was potentially ruinous, and in 1898 the two groups, along with others, combined to form the National Biscuit Company, which soon provided half the biscuit production in the United States. By 1958, National Biscuit was producing its line from a plant in Fair Lawn, N.J., and in 1959 it sold its New York complex - 22 structures, with 2 million square feet - to the investor Louis J. Glickman. Telephone listings from the 1970's and 80's list no baking operations, only light industrial tenants, in an area that was sliding into a sort of Rust Belt-like graveyard. In the 1990's, the investor Irwin B. Cohen organized a syndicate to buy the principal National Biscuit buildings, from Ninth to 11th Avenue and 15th to 16th Street. Over the next several years Mr. Cohen reinvented the older complex, between Ninth and 10th Avenue, re-renting the upper floors to an emerging group of technology companies. On the ground floor, he and his designers, Vandeberg Architects, created a long interior arcade of food stores, now a well-known destination in west Chelsea - an area that itself is oven-hot these days, with million dollar lofts being created in the onetime leftover factory district. To walk through the Chelsea Market is to stroll through a sort of postindustrial theme park, carefully festooned with the detritus of a lost industrial culture, interspersed with food stores and restaurants. |
Hotel Chelsea Lobby
| Other Chelsea Area Galleries Alexander and Bonin (10th ST.) Alona Kagan Gallery (29th ST.) Bellweather (10th ST.) Black & White Gallery (28th ST.) Briggs Robinson Gallery - (29th ST.) Chambers Fine Art (11th ST.) Christine Burgin Gallery (18th ST.) Christopher Henry Gallery (29th ST.) Cynthia Broan Gallery (29th ST.) David Zwirner Gallery (19th ST.) DJT Fine Art (10th ST.) Edward Thorp Gallery (11th ST.) Fischbach Gallery (11th ST.) Fotosphere Gallery Gallery 138 (17th ST.) Haim Chanin Fine Arts (11th ST.) Murray Guy (17th ST.) Peter Blum Gallery (29th ST.) Postmasters (19th ST.) Printed Matter, Inc. (10th ST.) Robert Mann Gallery (11th ST.) Sears Peyton Gallery (11th ST.) |
CHELSEA
Where GMHC started
Sixth Avenue in Chelsea looking west
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| Chelsea is also home to Dance Theater: * Dance Theater Workshop - w. 19th * Joyce Theatre - 19th & 8th Ave As well as Off-Broadway Theater: *Atlantic Theatre - w. 20th *The Kitchen - w. 19th *Gloria Maddox Theatre - w. 26th *Center Stage - w. 21st *Upright Citizens Brigade - w. 26th *Hudson Guild - w. 26th *Sanford Meisner Theatre - 11th Ave. *Irish Repertory Theatre - w. 22nd *Peoples Improve - w. 29th |
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| of the Chelsea neighbourhood in Manhattan, New York. Google will occupy about 300,000 square 1932 for the New York Port Authority, the building is home to such companies as Global Crossing and Barnesandnoble.com. It is the second-largest building in Manhattan in terms of square footage. Tenants in 111 Eighth Ave. include Level 3 Communications, Sprint Corp., SwissCom North America, MCI Worldcom and others providing Web hosting and co-location services. |
