Chelsea, Manhattan

Chelsea
A Chelsea streetscape
A Chelsea streetscape
Map
Location in New York City
Coordinates: 40°44′47″N 74°00′05″W / 40.74639°N 74.00139°W / 40.74639; -74.00139
Country United States
State New York
CityNew York City
BoroughManhattan
Community DistrictManhattan 4[1]
Area
 • Total0.774 sq mi (2.00 km2)
Population
 (2020)[2]
 • Total69,741
 • Density66,000/sq mi (25,000/km2)
 Neighborhood tabulation area; includes Hudson Yards
Ethnicity
 • White55.7%
 • Hispanic17.2
 • Asian15.0
 • Black6.9
 • Others5.1
Economics
 • Median income$118,915
Time zoneUTC−5 (Eastern)
 • Summer (DST)UTC−4 (EDT)
ZIP Codes
10001, 10011
Area code(s)212, 332, 646, and 917
Website
Chelsea Historic District
The Cushman Row, 406–418 W. 20th St., dates from 1840
LocationRoughly:
West 19th – West 23rd Streets
Eighth –Tenth Avenues[a]
Coordinates40°44′43″N 74°00′08″W / 40.74528°N 74.00222°W / 40.74528; -74.00222
Built1830
ArchitectMultiple
Architectural styleGreek Revival, Italianate, Georgian
NRHP reference No.77000954 (original)
82001190 (increase)[3]
Significant dates
Added to NRHPDecember 6, 1977 (original)
December 16, 1982 (increase)
Designated NYCLSeptember 15, 1970
February 3, 1981 (extension)

Chelsea is a neighborhood on the West Side of the borough of Manhattan in New York City. The area's boundaries are roughly 14th Street to the south, the Hudson River and West Street to the west, and Sixth Avenue to the east, with its northern boundary variously described as near the upper 20s[4][5] or 34th Street, the next major crosstown street to the north.[6][7] To the northwest of Chelsea is the neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen, as well as Hudson Yards; to the northeast are the Garment District and the remainder of Midtown South; to the east are NoMad and the Flatiron District; to the southwest is the Meatpacking District; and to the south and southeast are the West Village and the remainder of Greenwich Village.[8][b] Chelsea was named for an estate in the area, which in turn was named for the Royal Hospital Chelsea in London.[9]

Chelsea contains the Chelsea Historic District and its extension, which were designated by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1970 and 1981 respectively.[10] The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977, and expanded in 1982 to include contiguous blocks containing particularly significant examples of period architecture.

The neighborhood is primarily residential, with a mix of tenements, apartment blocks, two city housing projects, townhouses, and renovated rowhouses, but its many retail businesses reflect the ethnic and social diversity of the population. The area has a large LGBTQ population.[11] Chelsea is also known as one of the centers of the city's art world, with over 200 galleries in the neighborhood. As of 2015, due to the area's gentrification, there is a widening income gap between the wealthy living in luxury buildings and some people living in the two housing projects,.

Chelsea is a part of Manhattan Community District 4 and Manhattan Community District 5, and its primary ZIP Codes are 10001 and 10011.[1] It is patrolled by the 10th Precinct of the New York City Police Department.

  1. ^ a b "NYC Planning | Community Profiles". communityprofiles.planning.nyc.gov. New York City Department of City Planning. Archived from the original on March 23, 2019. Retrieved March 18, 2019.
  2. ^ a b c "NYC Population FactFinder: Manhattan, Chelsea-Hudson Yards". New York City Department of City Planning. Retrieved July 25, 2024.
  3. ^ "National Register Information System – (#80001190)". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
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  5. ^ Regier, Hilda. "Chelsea (i)" in Jackson, Kenneth T., ed. (2010). The Encyclopedia of New York City (2nd ed.). New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-11465-2., pp.234–235
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  7. ^ Navarro, Mireya. "In Chelsea, a Great Wealth Divide" Archived September 9, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, The New York Times, October 23, 2015. Accessed October 23, 2015. "Today's Chelsea, the swath west of Sixth Avenue between 14th and 34th Streets, could be the poster neighborhood for what Mayor Bill de Blasio calls the tale of two cities."
  8. ^ Kravitz, Derek (October 23, 2015). "Midtown South: Living Where the Action Is". WSJ. Archived from the original on December 8, 2017. Retrieved February 25, 2018.
  9. ^ Cite error: The named reference NYCParks was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  10. ^ New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission; Dolkart, Andrew S.; Postal, Matthew A. (2009). Postal, Matthew A. (ed.). Guide to New York City Landmarks (4th ed.). New York: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0-470-28963-1., p.70-72
  11. ^ Venugopal, Arun. "Census Shows Rising Numbers of Gay Couples and Dominicans in New York" Archived September 9, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, WNYC, July 14, 2011. Accessed September 20, 2016. "The largest numbers of same-sex couples live in a corridor of sorts, that stretches from Greenwich Village through Chelsea and into Hells Kitchen and Midtown along the west side of Manhattan. Chelsea, long known for its gay singles scene, also registered the highest proportion of same-sex couples, and, in one census tract bounded by Sixth and Eighth Avenues and 18th and 22nd streets, 22 percent of all couples were same-sex couples."


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