Chelsea | |
|---|---|
 A Chelsea streetscape | |
 Location in New York City | |
| Coordinates: 40°44′47″N 74°00′05″W / 40.74639°N 74.00139°W | |
| Country |  United States |
| State |  New York |
| City | New York City |
| Borough | Manhattan |
| Community District | Manhattan 4[1] |
| Area | |
• Total | 0.774 sq mi (2.00 km2) |
| Population (2020)[2] | |
• Total | 69,741 |
| • Density | 66,000/sq mi (25,000/km2) |
| Neighborhood tabulation area; includes Hudson Yards | |
| Ethnicity | |
| • White | 55.7% |
| • Hispanic | 17.2 |
| • Asian | 15.0 |
| • Black | 6.9 |
| • Others | 5.1 |
| Economics | |
| • Median income | $118,915 |
| Time zone | UTC−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 | |
| Location | Roughly: West 19th – West 23rd Streets Eighth –Tenth Avenues[a] |
| Coordinates | 40°44′43″N 74°00′08″W / 40.74528°N 74.00222°W |
| Built | 1830 |
| Architect | Multiple |
| Architectural style | Greek Revival, Italianate, Georgian |
| NRHP reference No. | 77000954 (original) 82001190 (increase)[3] |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | December 6, 1977 (original) December 16, 1982 (increase) |
| Designated NYCL | September 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,[update] 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b c "NYC Population FactFinder: Manhattan, Chelsea-Hudson Yards". New York City Department of City Planning. Retrieved July 25, 2024.
- ^ "National Register Information System – (#80001190)". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ See:
- Rachel Klein, Erica Duecy, Carolyn Galgano (2012). Fodor's New York City 2012. Fodor's. p. 14. ISBN 9780679009306. Archived from the original on December 24, 2019. Retrieved February 24, 2018.
Its leafy streets (which stretch from 14th to the upper 20s) are lined with renovated brownstones and spacious art galleries; its avenues (from 6th to the Hudson) brim with restaurants, bakeries, bodegas, and men's clothing stores.
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The neighborhood stretches from 6th Avenue west to the Hudson River, and from 14th Street to the upper 20s.
- White, Norval; Willensky, Elliot; Leadon, Fran (2010). AIA Guide to New York City (5th ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. p. 483. ISBN 978-0-19538-386-7. "The name was originally given by Captain Thomas Clarke to his estate, staked out in 1750, which extended roughly from the present 19th to 28th Streets, from Eighth Avenue west to the Hudson. The modern place-name covers approximately a similar area, with its eastern boundary at Seventh Avenue and its southern one at 14th Street."
- Fodor's See It New York City Archived May 27, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, p. 299. Fodor's Travel Publications, 2012. ISBN 9780876371367. Accessed October 20, 2015. "Chelsea... The boundaries stretch from 14th to 30th streets and from Sixth Avenue to the Hudson River."
- Brian Silverman (2007). New York City For Dummies. Wiley Publishing, Inc. ISBN 9780470109540. Archived from the original on March 7, 2022. Retrieved July 9, 2018.
Chelsea, which extends from 14th Street to 26th Street and from the Hudson River to Fifth Avenue, is now the city's largest gay community.
- Malbin, Peter. "If You're Thinking of Living In/Chelsea; Strikingly Changed, But Still Diverse" Archived March 16, 2018, at the Wayback Machine, The New York Times, April 16, 2000. Accessed February 24, 2018. "Today, the Chelsea Historic District encompasses parts of West 20th, West 21st and West 22nd Streets between 8th and 10th Avenues, and the neighborhood itself runs, roughly, from 14th Street to 29th Street and from the Avenue of the Americas to the Hudson River."
- Goldstein, Joseph. "New York neighborhood border wars" Archived March 16, 2018, at the Wayback Machine, New York Post, August 8, 2010. Accessed March 15, 2018. "But Chelsea's growth to the north has been more hesitant — and many residents feel that the neighborhood ends with the art galleries and the night clubs in the upper 20s."
- De Avila, Joseph. "Chelsea Shows Art for Living" Archived November 20, 2018, at the Wayback Machine, The Wall Street Journal, January 29, 2011. Accessed April 10, 2018.
- Rachel Klein, Erica Duecy, Carolyn Galgano (2012). Fodor's New York City 2012. Fodor's. p. 14. ISBN 9780679009306. Archived from the original on December 24, 2019. Retrieved February 24, 2018.
- ^ 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
- ^ See:
- Sloane, Leonard. "Kids on Skates and in Buggies Give New Bank a Homey Touch" Archived September 9, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, The New York Times, September 4, 1964. Accessed October 20, 2015. "The Chelsea area of Manhattan, from 14th Street to 34th Street on the West Side, is one of the city's oldest sections."
- Bennetts, Leslie. If You're Thinking of Living In: Chelsea" Archived September 9, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, The New York Times, May 2, 1982. Accessed October 2, 2015.
- ^ 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."
- ^ 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.
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- ^ 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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