Chelsea

Chelsea is a hip and diverse neighborhood located on Manhattan’s West Side. This eclectic area combines uptown class with downtown style, being home to around 350 art galleries, the elevated High Line public park, restaurants ranging from casual lunch spots to upscale fine dining, and trendy places to shop.

 

The real estate is as eclectic as the neighborhood’s businesses. Chelsea’s housing options include historic rowhouses and townhouses, as well as low and high-rise apartments and condominium buildings. From elegant mid-19th century brownstones to lavish penthouse suites with private terraces atop contemporary apartment high-rises, each property has its own distinctive charms. Newer construction has largely taken place in the former industrial zone to the north of the neighborhood, where luxury high-rises showcase the vision of architects such as Shigeru Ban, Neil Denair, Frank Gehry, and Jean Nouvel.

 

• Diverse and eclectic 
• Chelsea Market
• Art galleries
• The High Line
  
  

Chelsea is a socially and ethnically diverse neighborhood, home to people from all over the world. It’s also a long-time cornerstone of NYC’s LGBT community, with census data reporting that 22% of homes are occupied by same-sex couples. Local businesses reflect Chelsea’s diversity, with many authentic ethnic restaurants and an LGBT-orientated commercial district along Eighth Avenue.

 

Chelsea Market is a shopping and dining hub housed within the former National Biscuit Company factory complex of the 1890s. Chelsea Market covers an entire city block and contains 60 businesses, including international eateries, specialty retailers, and the Chelsea Music Hall performance venue. Refined Japanese restaurant Morimoto is located at Chelsea Market, with celebrity chef Masaharu Morimoto formerly filming Iron Chef America and Emeril Live on its premises. The office space in the floors above the market contain several media businesses. Many of the market’s restaurants source their ingredients from the fresh produce sold by the market’s vendors. Other Chelsea restaurants include the Tenth Avenue Cookshop, which serves an eco-conscious menu of seasonal farm-to-table dishes.

The High Line’s 1.45-mile-long elevated greenway is a relaxing park-like green space with captivating skyline views along the path of a disused rail line. Since 2019, The High Line has featured artworks on a plinth overlooking Tenth Avenue. Chelsea’s enormous selection of art galleries includes exhibits of emerging and established contemporary artists at the Andrew Kreps, FLAG Art Foundation, Jack Shainman, and Marianne Boesky galleries. The Ricco/Maresca Gallery showcases the work of self-taught outsider artists, while the Garth Greenan Gallery curates the work of artists considered overlooked or underappreciated. There’s also Japanese avant-garde at Fergus McCaffrey, minimalist and conceptual artworks at Paula Cooper Gallery, works by mid-career talents at Alexander Gray Associates, and boundary-breaking performance art at Galerie Lelong & Co.