Posted February 27, 201213 yr the full chelsea -- as in fully annotated -- enjoy! first up -- chelsea peeps! chelsea mansion house (1855) location was approx 8th ave/w23rd street pikes opera house (1868-1960) at NW corner 8th ave & w23rd st http://theboweryboys.blogspot.com/2009/08/chelseas-old-opera-house-from-robber.html ^ that view today ^ looking up 7th avenue the gem was until recently an allerton hotel if you enjoyed just kids -- this is where patti smith lived with robert mapplethorpe orange riots (1870-71) 7/12/1871 -- looking south down 8th ave from w25th st http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Riots ^ same view today -- the left/east side of 8th ave here is still intact looking up 8th avenue 1827-8 federal houses 8th ave & 18th st puppies! hudson guild (1897) w26th st bet 8th ave & 9th ave http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_Guild london terrace (1930) w23rd-s4th sts & 9th-10th aves -- from the highline ^ an earlier london terrace aka millionaires row 1845-1928 street level w23rd st bet 8-9th aves had a strip of sro hotels until fairly recently the big 3 pj complexes in chelsea: penn south (1962) w23rd-29th st bet 8th-9th aves approx 7000 residents http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penn_South chelsea-elliot houses (1962-65) w25th-27th sts bet 9th-10th aves 2500 residents http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelsea-Elliot_Houses fulton houses (1947-64) w16th-19th sts bet 9th-10th aves approx 3000 residents http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulton_Houses 11th ave -- looking north from the highline park chelsea -- nightclubs area in the early 1940s, tons of uranium for the manhattan project was stored in the anonymous baker & williams warehouse at 513-519 w20th st. the uranium was not removed and decontaminated until the 1980s-90s! rainy esb views in chelsea new & old on w14st bet 8th-9th aves http://www.ddgpartners.com/#/9/gansevoort-square nysavings bank (1898) & bankers trust tower (1930) ^the render more views of the NE side of w14th & 9th ave apple store on the NW corner long before this gaytel spooky author h.p. lovecraft’s friend lived here and it inspired the classic short story ‘cool air,’ which you can read at this link: http://www.dagonbytes.com/thelibrary/lovecraft/coolair.htm also, the joyce dance theater (1982) fka elgin theater (1941) http://joyce.org ^ original render for the puck theater (1935), which was eventually built as the elgin ^ old buildings need a lot of upkeep! porter house (1905, 2002) & the old homestead steakhouse (1868) http://nyc-architecture.com/CHE/CHE-036.htm http://www.theoldhomesteadsteakhouse.com/ the 19-story art deco verizon building, which spans the block between 17th-18th sts near 7th ave, built in the early 1930s. Its going condo. http://www.cocotero-restaurant.com/ PS11 F.I.T. w27th st bet 7th-8th aves http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fashion_Institute_of_Technology http://fitnyc.edu/ general theological seminary (1827, 1886, 1857, 2007) w20th-21st sts 9th & 10th aves http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Theological_Seminary ^the seminary built new condos on 9th ave to raise some loot carnegie library on right the highline street level rail (1847), high line rail (1934-80) & high line park (2009) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Line_%28New_York_City%29 http://www.thehighline.org/ “HEYYY!“ this redeveloped building over the highline is fka the cudahy warehouse but is best known as the site of the 1984 art of noise video ‘close to the edit’ ^ old view of the highline in 1909 as seen in chelsea market ^ rubin museum of himalayan art (2004) fka barneys 150 w17th st at 6th ave http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubin_Museum_of_Art http://www.rmanyc.org/ 9th ave 267 W23rd st -- here was once the semi-legendary punk/gay bar mothers http://streetsyoucrossed.blogspot.com/2005/10/mothers-ilk.html ^ blondie recently remembered that joint: the deco building on right was originally built as a hotel (emery roth, 1928) garrets clement clarke moore playground chelsea piers (1837, 1910-30s cruise ship heyday, 1995) hudson river bet. w16th-22nd sts http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelsea_Piers http://www.chelseapiers.com/ inland terminal one (1932) aka port authority building aka google building 8th -9th aves bet w15th-16th sts chelsea market (1890-1959, 1998) w15th-w16th sts & 9th-11th aves http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelsea_Market http://www.chelseamarket.com/ maritime building hotel 1966-8, 2003) http://themaritimehotel.com dream hotel chelsea film studios fka famous players studios (1914) 221 w26th st http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelsea_Studios http://www.allmobilevideo.com/soundstages/ChelseaStudioA.htm ^ olde view of famous players studio ^ the iconic church of the holy apostles (1845-8) 296 9th ave at w28th st http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_Holy_Apostles_%28Manhattan%29 west chelsea arts district - w18th-w28th sts & 10th-11th ave http://chelseagallerymap.com/ http://oneartworld.com/1-nyc/ eyebeam http://eyebeam.org/ the kitchen (1971) 512 w19th st http://www.thekitchen.org/ pier 54 gate w14th st at 11th ave http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pier_54 The uss carpathia at pier 54 in 1912 after the titanic rescue on left the pier burned in 1932, to the right is the 2nd one as seen in 1991 riazor http://www.caferiazor.com/ there is a large old spanish community, as in people from spain, in sw chelsea/gv tapas crawling at la national http://www.lanacionaltapas.com/ they tore down early 1800s federal townhouses for this pier 66a aka the frying pan (1929, 1989) -- hudson river at w26th st http://www.fryingpan.com/ empire diner (1946, 1979, 2011) 210 10th ave at w22nd st http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_Diner cushman row (1840) 406-418 w20th sts bet 9th-10th aves van dolsum row (1856) 322-6 w29th bet 8th-9th aves peter mcmanus (opened 1936) 152 7th ave at w19th st http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_McManus_Cafe http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/01/nyregion/james-j-mcmanus-81-owner-of-celebrated-bar.html?sec=&spon= it’s a nice one, but unfortunately the local hostel is only for international visitors hotel chelsea (1883-85) 222 w23rd st bet 7th-8th aves http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Chelsea http://www.chelseahotelblog.com/ Inside: The Chelsea Hotel Photographed by Julia Calfee i noticed this nice wineshop in a law&order episode one of my fav multi-purpose buildings german evangelical lutheran st pauls church (1897) fur district http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/02/nyregion/neighborhood-report-fur-district-take-back-your-mink-but-just-for-the-summer.html d’aiutos cheesecakes A Morning at D'Aiuto Cheesecake more old school -- only a few of these left anymore starett-lehigh terminal warehouse (1930) w26th-27th sts & 11th-12th aves terminal warehouse (1890) 261-73 12th ave bet 27th-28th sts -- the tunnel niteclub was here "highline 519" and "HL23" on w23rd st bet 10th-11th aves http://www.nycondoblog.com/highline-519-519-west-23rd-street#more-324 http://hl23.com/ hudson river park - currently w59th st - battery park http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_River_Park http://www.hudsonriverpark.org/index.asp iac building 555 w18th st at 11th ave - aka the gehry http://www.iachq.com/interactive/content.html 100 11th ave at w19th st - aka the nouvel http://www.nouvelchelsea.com/ metal shutter houses 524 w19th st bet 10th-11th aves -- shigeru ban http://metalshutterhouses.com/ this building was fka the roxy niteclub - 515 w18th st http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roxy_NYC ^ and lets not forget beat street! chelsea arts tower 545 w25th bety 10th-11th aves & 7th ave subway extension launch box http://chelseaartstower.net/ too bad they didn’t go with the original chelsea arts tower design! more 7th avenue subway extension launch box construction - 11th ave bet 25th-26th streets 200 11th ave at w24th st http://www.200eleventh.com/ church of the guardian angel (1930) 193 10th ave at w21st and looking up 11th avenue a leftover from the old westside miller highway westside highway light posts and lastly, a hidden surprise. a 13th avenue. most people think landfill only fattened out lower manhattan, but not entirely. this was an instance of an old manhattan neighborhood that was actually removed for piers. the quiet old street remnant remains out of sight on the hudson behind what is now the sanitation pier. **********************************************************************
February 27, 201213 yr ps -- if you watch the beat street video clip up there and dont blink at 2:23 you can catch a young vin diesel with the headband on - lol!
February 27, 201213 yr Yeah, that's Chelsea. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
February 27, 201213 yr ha - i should have noted its long in the header - i was working on it on and off since november. something that i see now that is barely visible are a few shots from the one day we have had any snow -- and they say 55degrees today, what a mild winter so far.
February 28, 201213 yr thanks, great tour! London Terrace is interesting. I believe it was built as luxury housing (at a time when that term really meant something in NY!), but no one from the east side wanted to live there, so it just became sort of a run-of-the-mill complex. Nowadays, however, with all the money in the neighborhood, it's trendy to live there, spearheaded by fashionistas many years ago. http://www.mainstreetpainesville.org/
February 28, 201213 yr Wow, the Chelsea thread to end all Chelsea threads! I love night time shots of IAC. This is so insanely trivial in such a an awesome and huge thread, but I don't think that old photo is really of the High Line in 1909... pretty sure it wasn't built till the '30s.
March 14, 201213 yr i love London Terrace! If it wasnt located in Chelsea I would have moved there, back in the day!
March 14, 201213 yr First time I've seen old-fashioned Gary Winnogrand NYC street photos taken with a digital camera. No offense but it just doesn't carry the same weight with digital!
March 14, 201213 yr Every time as I scrolled down and thought you had missed something, a picture of it appeared. Great collection of the neighborhood with references to boot. Thanks for taking the time to put this together.
March 14, 201213 yr thanks - i did skip the flower district because i already did a thread on that a while back. First time I've seen old-fashioned Gary Winnogrand NYC street photos taken with a digital camera. No offense but it just doesn't carry the same weight with digital! thanks yeah hes a hero and i totally agree the silvery light and the subject matter around here really demand real film and a leica, particularly the people shots. instagram, etc and even photoshop are not satisfactory workarounds for getting what you really want through a lens. i would like a better digital camera someday tho.
March 15, 201213 yr Yeah, without a doubt, 100%, this photo series captures the essence of my favorite city in the world. I used to be able to travel to NYC for work on a regular basis, but no more. Thanks for helping me remember how awesome this city is...
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