Chelsea | |
|---|---|
 A Chelsea streetscape | |
 Location in New York City | |
| Coordinates:40°44′47″N74°00′05″W / 40.74639°N 74.00139°W /40.74639; -74.00139 | |
| 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 codes | 212, 332, 646, and917 |
| 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″N74°00′08″W / 40.74528°N 74.00222°W /40.74528; -74.00222 |
| 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 theWest Side of theborough ofManhattan inNew York City. The area's boundaries are roughly14th Street to the south, theHudson River andWest Street to the west, andSixth Avenue to the east, with its northern boundary variously described as near theupper 20s[4][5]or34th Street, the next major crosstown street to the north.[6][7] To the northwest of Chelsea is the neighborhood ofHell's Kitchen, as well asHudson Yards; to the northeast are theGarment District and the remainder ofMidtown South; to the east areNoMad and theFlatiron District; to the southwest is theMeatpacking District; and to the south and southeast are theWest Village and the remainder ofGreenwich Village.[8][b] Chelsea was named after an estate in the area which, in turn, was named after theRoyal Hospital Chelsea in London which, in its turn, was named after theChelsea District of London (England).[9]
Chelsea contains theChelsea Historic District and its extension, which were designated by theNew York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1970 and 1981 respectively.[10] The district was added to theNational 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 oftenements, apartment blocks, twocity housing projects,townhouses, and renovatedrowhouses, but its many retail businesses reflect the ethnic and social diversity of the population. The area has a largeLGBTQ population.[11] Chelsea is also known as one of the centers of the city'sart world, with over 200galleries in the neighborhood. As of 2015,[update] due to the area'sgentrification, there is a widening income gap between the wealthy living in luxury buildings and some people living in the twohousing projects.
Chelsea is a part ofManhattan Community District 4 andManhattan Community District 5, and its primaryZIP Codes are 10001 and 10011.[1] It is patrolled by the 10th Precinct of theNew York City Police Department.
Chelsea takes its name from the estate andGeorgian-style house of retired British Major Thomas Clarke, who obtained the property when he bought the farm of Jacob Somerindyck on August 16, 1750. The land was bounded by what would become 21st and 24th Streets, from the Hudson River to Eighth Avenue.[5] Clarke chose the name "Chelsea" after theRoyal Hospital Chelsea in London.[9][12] Clarke passed the estate on to his daughter, Charity, who, with her husbandBenjamin Moore, added land on the south of the estate, extending it to 19th Street.[5] The house was the birthplace of their son,Clement Clarke Moore, who in turn inherited the property. Moore is generally credited with writing "A Visit From St. Nicholas" and was the author of the first Greek and Hebrewlexicons printed in the United States.
In 1827, Moore gave the land of his apple orchard to theEpiscopal Diocese of New York for theGeneral Theological Seminary, which built its brownstone Gothic, tree-shaded campus south of the manor house. Despite his objections to theCommissioner's Plan of 1811, which ran the newNinth Avenue through the middle of his estate, Moore began the development of Chelsea with the help ofJames N. Wells, dividing it up into lots along Ninth Avenue and selling them to well-heeled New Yorkers.[13]Covenants in the deeds of sale specified what could be built on the land – stables, manufacturing and commercial uses were forbidden – as well as architectural details of the buildings.[5] In 1829, Moore leased one of the lots to Hugh Walker who constructed what is now theoldest standing house in Chelsea, completed in 1830.[14]
The new neighborhood thrived for three decades, with many single family homes and rowhouses, in the process expanding past the original boundaries of Clarke's estate, but an industrial zone also began to develop along the Hudson.[5] In 1847 theHudson River Railroad laid its freight tracks up aright-of-way between Tenth andEleventh Avenues, separating Chelsea from theHudson River waterfront. By the time of theCivil War, the area west of Ninth Avenue and below 20th Street was the location of numerous distilleries makingturpentine andcamphene, a lamp fuel. In addition, the huge Manhattan Gas Works complex, which convertedbituminous coal intogas, was located at Ninth Avenue and 18th Street.[15]
The industrialization of western Chelsea brought immigrant populations from many countries to work in the factories,[16] including a large number ofIrish immigrants, who dominated work on the Hudson River piers that lined the nearby waterfront and the truck terminals integrated with the freight railroad spur.[c] As well as the piers, warehouses and factories, the industrial area west of Tenth Avenue also included lumberyards and breweries, and tenements built to house the workers. With the immigrant population came the political domination of the neighborhood by theTammany Hallmachine,[16] as well as festering ethnic tensions: around 67 people died in ariot between Irish Catholics and Irish Protestants on July 12, 1871, which took place around 24th Street and Eighth Avenue.[5][17] The social problems of the area's workers provokedJohn Lovejoy Elliot to form theHudson Guild in 1897, one of the firstsettlement houses – private organizations designed to provide social services.
A theater district had formed in the area by 1869,[5] and soon West23rd Street was the center of American theater, led byPike's Opera House (1868, demolished 1960), on the northwest corner of Eighth Avenue. Chelsea was a busy entertainment district between about 1875 and 1900. Sixth Avenue contained theLadies' Mile shopping district; music publishers opened offices inTin Pan Alley along 28th Street; and theTenderloin red-light district occupied the northern section of Chelsea.[18]
The neighborhood was an early center for the motion picture industry before World War I. Some ofMary Pickford's first pictures were made on the top floors of an armory building at 221West 26th Street, while other studios were located on 23rd and 21st Streets.[16]
To accommodate high freight and industrial demand, several railroads had builtrail freight terminals on the Manhattan side of the Hudson River,[19]: 2–3 and many freight terminals and warehouses were built in the western part of Chelsea by the late 19th century.[20]: 5 The first of these was the Central Stores, constructed at 11th Avenue between 27th and 28th Streets in 1891.[19]: 2–3 This was followed in 1900 by theLehigh Valley Railroad's terminal between 26th and 27th Streets, as well as theBaltimore and Ohio Railroad's terminal immediately to the south, completed in the early 1910s.[19]: 2–3 [21] Freight operations on Manhattan's far west side were improved when the elevatedWest Side Freight Line and theWest Side Elevated Highway were built in the 1930s, replacing a surface-level railroad and roadway.[19]: 2–3
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. Other major housing complexes in the Chelsea area arePenn South, a 1962cooperative housing development sponsored by theInternational Ladies Garment Workers' Union, and theNew York City Housing Authority-built and -operatedFulton Houses andChelsea-Elliot Houses.
The 23-storyArt Deco Walker Building, which spans the block between 17th and 18th Streets just off ofSeventh Avenue, was built in the early 1930s. That structure was converted in 2012 to residential apartments on the top 16 floors, with Verizon retaining the lower seven floors.[22] In the early 1940s, tons ofuranium for theManhattan Project were stored in the Baker & Williams Warehouse at 513–519 West 20th Street. The uranium was removed and a decontamination project at the site was completed during the early 1990s.[23] By the mid-20th century, the western part of Chelsea had various types of light manufacturing businesses. According to theNew York City Landmarks Preservation Commission, these ranged "from printing shops and box companies, to milk-bottling plants and electrical wire and cable manufacturers".[20]: 23
The industrial character of West Chelsea declined in the 1960s and 1970s, as industries started to relocate from Manhattan.[20]: 24 In subsequent years, the area's redevelopment was concentrated around West Chelsea,[24] and some of the old industrial structures were converted to nightclubs.[20]: 24 [18] These included Les Mouches (housed in a formerOtis Elevator Company factory) andthe Tunnel (housed in the Central Stores building on 11th Avenue).[20]: 24 Many LGBTQ people started moving to Chelsea in the mid-1980s, and upscale restaurants and stores began opening in the neighborhood around the same time.[25] By then, the neighborhood also contained some of New York City's "cutting-edge theaters and performance spaces" according toThe New York Times.[18] By the late 1990s, West Chelsea had also begun to attract visual-arts galleries that had relocated fromSoHo.[20]: 25 [26]
On September 17, 2016, there wasan explosion outside a building on 23rd Street, which injured 29 people; police located and removed a second, undetonatedpressure cooker bomb on 27th Street.[27][28] A suspect,Ahmad Khan Rahami, was captured two days later after a gunfight inLinden, New Jersey.[29]
By the late 2010s, the eastern part of Chelsea, which had once been largely industrial, had also attracted upscale residential development.[24]
For census purposes, the New York City government classifies Chelsea as part of a larger neighborhood tabulation area called Hudson Yards-Chelsea-Flat Iron-Union Square.[30] Based on data from the2010 United States census, the population of Hudson Yards-Chelsea-Flat Iron-Union Square was 70,150, a change of 14,311 (20.4%) from the 55,839 counted in2000. Covering an area of 851.67 acres (344.66 ha), the neighborhood had a population density of 82.4/acre (52,700/sq mi; 20,400/km2).[31] The racial makeup of the neighborhood was 65.1% (45,661)White, 5.7% (4,017)African American, 0.1% (93)Native American, 11.8% (8,267)Asian, 0% (21)Pacific Islander, 0.4% (261) fromother races, and 2.3% (1,587) from two or more races.Hispanic orLatino of any race were 14.6% (10,243) of the population.[32]
The entirety of Community District 4, which comprises Chelsea and Hell's Kitchen, had 122,119 inhabitants as ofNYC Health's 2018 Community Health Profile, with an average life expectancy of 83.1 years.[33]: 2, 20 This is higher than the median life expectancy of 81.2 for all New York City neighborhoods.[34]: 53 (PDF p. 84) [35] Most inhabitants are adults: a plurality (45%) are between the ages of 25–44, while 26% are between 45 and 64, and 13% are 65 or older. The ratio of youth and college-aged residents was lower, at 9% and 8% respectively.[33]: 2
As of 2017, the medianhousehold income in Community Districts 4 and 5 was $101,981.[36] In 2018, an estimated 11% of Chelsea and Hell's Kitchen residents lived in poverty, compared to 14% in all of Manhattan and 20% in all of New York City. One in twenty residents (5%) were unemployed, compared to 7% in Manhattan and 9% in New York City. Rent burden, or the percentage of residents who have difficulty paying their rent, is 41% in Chelsea and Hell's Kitchen, compared to the boroughwide and citywide rates of 45% and 51% respectively. Based on this calculation, as of 2018[update], Chelsea and Hell's Kitchen are considered to be high-income relative to the rest of the city and notgentrifying.[33]: 7
People of many different cultures live in Chelsea. Chelsea is famous for having alarge LGBTQ population, with one of Chelsea's census tracts reporting that 22% of its residents were gay couples,[11] and is known for its social diversity and inclusion.[37] Eighth Avenue is a center for LGBT-oriented shopping and dining, and from 16th to 22nd Streets between Ninth and Tenth Avenues, mid-nineteenth-century brick and brownstone townhouses are still occupied, a few even restored to single family use.[38][39]
The stores of Chelsea reflect the ethnic and social diversity of the area's population. The ChelseaLofts district – the former fur and flower district – is located roughly between Sixth and Seventh Avenues from 23rd to 30th streets.[citation needed] The McBurney YMCA on West 23rd Street, commemorated in the hitVillage People songY.M.C.A., sold its home and relocated in 2002 to a new facility on 14th Street, the neighborhood's southern border.[40]
By the late 20th and early 21st centuries, Chelsea had become an alternative shopping destination, starring the likes of Barneys CO-OP — which replaced the much larger originalBarneys flagship store —Comme des Garçons,Balenciaga boutiques,Alexander McQueen,Stella McCartney, andChristian Louboutin.Chelsea Market, on the ground floor of the formerNabisco Building, is a destination for food lovers.In the late 1990s, New York's visual arts community began a gradual transition away fromSoHo, due to increasing rents and competition from upscale retailers for the large and airy spaces thatart galleries require,[26] and the area of West Chelsea betweenTenth andEleventh Avenues and16th and28th Streets has become a new global centers of contemporary art, home to over 200 art galleries that are home to modern art from both upcoming and established artists.[41] Along with the art galleries, Chelsea is home to theRubin Museum of Art, with a focus onHimalayan art; theGraffiti Research Lab andNew York Live Arts, a producing and presenting organization of dance and other movement-based arts. The community, in fact, is home to many highly regarded performance venues, among them theJoyce Theater, one of the city's premier modern dance emporiums, andThe Kitchen, a center for cutting-edge theatrical and visual arts.
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Above 23rd Street, by theHudson River, the neighborhood is post-industrial, featuring the elevatedHigh Line viaduct, which follows the river all through Chelsea. The elevated rail line was the successor to the street-level freight line original built through Chelsea in 1847, which was the cause of numerous fatal accidents, so it was elevated in the early 1930s by theNew York Central Railroad. It fell out of use in the 1960s through 1980 and was originally slated to be torn down, but in the early 2000s, it was redesigned and converted into a highly used aerialgreenway andrails-to-trails park.[20] With a change in zoning resolution in conjunction with the development of the High Line, Chelsea experienced a new construction boom, with projects by notable architects such asShigeru Ban,Neil Denari,Jean Nouvel, andFrank Gehry. The neighborhood was quickly gentrifying, with small businesses being replaced by big-box retailers and technology and fashion stores.[7] With this development, more wealthy residents moved in, further widening an already-existing income gap with public-housing residents. In 2015, the average yearly household income in most of Chelsea was about $140,000. On the other hand, in the area's two public-housing developments – theElliott-Chelsea Houses, between 25th Street, Ninth Avenue, 28th Street, and Tenth Avenue; and Fulton Houses, between 16th Street, Ninth Avenue, 19th Street, and Tenth Avenue – the average income was less than $30,000.[7] At the same time, the area'sPuerto Rican enclaves and rent-subsidized housing, especially inPenn South, was being replaced by high-rent studios. This resulted in large income disparities across the neighborhood; one block in particular – 25th Street between 9th and 10th Avenues – had the Elliot Houses on its north side and two million-dollar residences on its south side.[7]
The Chelsea neighborhood is served by two weekly newspapers: theChelsea-Clinton News andChelsea Now.[dubious –discuss]
West Chelsea refers to the western portion of Chelsea, previously known as Gasoline Alley,[42] much of which was previously a manufacturing area and has since been rezoned to allow for high-rise residential uses. It is often considered the area of Chelsea between the Hudson River to the west and Tenth Avenue to the east, a portion of which was designated ahistoric district in 2008.[43] A 2008 article inThe New York Times showed the eastern boundary of West Chelsea asEighth Avenue for the area between 14th and 23rd streets,Ninth Avenue between 23rd and 25th, andTenth Avenue between 25th and 29th.[44][45]
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TheChelsea Market, located in a restored historicNabisco factory and headquarters, is a festival marketplace that hosts a variety of shopping and dining options, including bakeries, restaurants, a fish market, wine store, and many others.[46]
Peter McManus Cafe, a bar and restaurant on Seventh Avenue at 19th Street, is among the oldest family-owned and -operated bars in the city.
TheEmpire Diner was anart moderne diner at 210 Tenth Avenue at 22nd Street that appeared in several movies and was mentioned inBilly Joel's song "Great Wall of China". Designed byFodero Dining Car Company, it was built in 1946 and was altered in 1979 by Carl Laanes. The diner closed on May 15, 2010; reopened briefly as "The Highliner", and again re-opened under its original name in January 2014[47] before closing permanently in December 2015 due to failure to pay rent.[48]
Pike's Opera House was built in 1868, and bought the next year byJames Fisk andJay Gould, who renamed it theGrand Opera House. Located on the corner of Eighth Avenue and 23rd Street, it survived until 1960 as anRKO movie theater.[16]
TheIrish Repertory Theatre is anOff-Broadway theatrical company on West 22nd Street producing plays by Irish and Irish-American writers.
TheJoyce Theater, located in the formerElgin Theater at 175 Eighth Avenue, near 19th Street, is in a 1941 movie house that closed in 1978. The Elgin was completely renovated to create in the Joyce a venue suitable for dance, and was reopened in 1982.[49]
The Kitchen is a performance space at 512 West 19th Street. It was founded inGreenwich Village in 1971 bySteina and Woody Vasulka, taking its name from the original location, the kitchen of theMercer Arts Center.[50]
The warehouse building at 530 West 27th Street, which was the site of The Sound Factory &Twilo,[51] as well as several other megaclubs in the 1980s and 1990s, was acquired in 2011 by the British theater companyPunchdrunk, who converted it into "The McKittrick Hotel", a five-story, 100,000 sq ft (9,300 m2) performance space housing their immersive site-specific theatrical production,Sleep No More. The building, along with those at 532 and 542 West 27th Street, was also the location of several restaurants and event venues, and featured other shows such as 'Speakeasy Magick', featuring Todd Robbins, Jason Suran, and Matthew Holtzclaw.[52][53][54] The McKittrick and associated spaces closed in 2025 following the end ofSleep No More's theatrical run.[55]
New York Live Arts is a dance organization located at 219 West 19th Street between 7th and 8th Avenues.[56]
TheRubin Museum of Art is a museum dedicated to the collection, display, and preservation of the art of the Himalayas and surrounding regions, especially that of Tibet. It was located at 150 West 17th Street between Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Avenue) and Seventh Avenue. While the museum still exists as an institution, its Chelsea building closed on October 6, 2024.[57]
Google's New York office occupies111 Eighth Avenue, which takes up the full city block between 15th and 16th Streets and between Eighth and Ninth Avenues. The building was once Inland Terminal 1 of thePort Authority of New York and New Jersey.[58]
TheStarrett-Lehigh Building, a huge full-block freight terminal and warehouse on West 26th Street between Eleventh and Twelfth Avenues, was built in 1930–1931 as a joint venture of the Starett real estate firm and theLehigh Valley Railroad. Designed by Cory & Cory to enable trains to pull into the ground floor of the building, it was one of only a few American buildings included in theMuseum of Modern Art's 1932 "International Style" exhibition. It was designated aNew York City landmark in 1966.[10]
TheHudson Yards rail-yard development is located at the northern edge of Chelsea, within theHudson Yards neighborhood. The project's centerpiece is a mixed-use real estate development byRelated Companies. According to its master plan, created by master plannerKohn Pedersen Fox Associates, Hudson Yards is expected to consist of 16 skyscrapers containing more than 1.27×10^6 sq ft (118,000 m2) of new office, residential, and retail space. Among its components will be 6×10^6 sq ft (560,000 m2) of commercial office space, a 750,000 sq ft (70,000 m2) retail center with two levels of restaurants, cafes, markets and bars, a hotel, a cultural space, about 5,000 residences, a 750-seat school, and 14 acres (5.7 ha) of public open space. The development, located mainly above and around theWest Side Yard, will create a new neighborhood that overlaps with Chelsea and Hell's Kitchen.[59]
Hotel Chelsea, built 1883–1885 and designed by Hubert, Pirsson & Co., was New York's first cooperative apartment complex[10] and was the tallest building in the city until 1902. After the theater district migrated uptown and the neighborhood became commercialized, the residential building folded and in 1905 it was turned into a hotel.[60] The hotel attracted attention as the place whereDylan Thomas had been staying when he died in 1953 atSt. Vincent's Hospital inGreenwich Village, and for the 1978 slaying ofNancy Spungen for whichSid Vicious was accused. The hotel has been the home of numerous celebrities, includingBrendan Behan,Thomas Wolfe,Mark Twain,Tennessee Williams andVirgil Thomson,[10] and the subject of books, films (Chelsea Girls, 1966) and music.
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TheLondon Terrace 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. It was designed by Farrar and Watmough. It takes its name from the fashionable mid-19th century cottages that were once located there.[16]
Penn South is a large limited-equityhousing cooperative constructed in 1962 by theUnited Housing Foundation and financed by theInternational Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. The development includes 2,820 apartments and covers six city blocks between8th and9th Avenue and23rd and29th Street. In 2012, there were 6,000 names on a waiting list of prospective residents looking to purchase a unit in the development.[61] Under the terms of agreements reached with the City of New York in 1986 and 2002, and separately with theUnited States Department of Housing and Urban Development, Penn South's eligibility for tax abatements offered by theMitchell-Lama Housing Program has been extended to 2052.[62]
TheChelsea Piers were the city's primary luxury ocean liner terminal from 1910 until 1935, when the growing size of ships made the complex inadequate. TheRMSTitanic was headed to Pier 60 at the piers and theRMSCarpathia brought survivors to Pier 54 in the complex, which was destroyed in 2018 although ironwork remains. The northern piers are now part of an entertainment and sports complex operated byRoland W. Betts, and the southern piers are part ofHudson River Park.[63] The Hudson River Park, designed as a joint city/state park with non-traditional uses, runs along the Hudson River waterfront from59th Street to the Battery and comprises most of the associated piers.[64]
Chelsea Park is located between 9th and 10th Avenues, and between 27th and 28th Streets. It contains baseball diamonds, basketball courts and six handball courts.[65]
Chelsea Studios, asound stage on 26th Street, has been operating since 1914, and numerous movies and television shows have been produced there.[66]
TheChurch of the Holy Apostles[67] was built in 1845–1848 to a design byMinard Lefever, with additions by Lefever in 1853–1854, andtransepts byCharles Babcock added in 1858, thisItalianate church was designated aNew York City landmark in 1966 and is listed on theNational Register of Historic Places. It is Lefever's only surviving building in Manhattan. The building, which featured an octagonal spire,[68] was burned in a serious fire in 1990, butstained glass windows byWilliam Jay Bolton survived, and the church reopened in April 1994 after a major restoration.[10] The Episcopal parish is notable for hosting the city's largest program to feed the poor,[69] and is the second and larger home of theLGBTQ-oriented synagogue, Congregation Beth Simchat Torah.[70]
The General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church's college-like close is sometimes called "Chelsea Square". It consists of a city block of tree-shaded lawns between Ninth and Tenth Avenues and West 20th and 21st Streets. The campus is ringed by more than a dozen brick and brownstone buildings inGothic Revival style. The oldest building on the campus dates from 1836. Most of the rest were designed as a group by architectCharles Coolidge Haight, under the guidance of the Dean, Augustus Hoffman.[71] In 2024,Vanderbilt University entered into a lease with The General Theological Seminary to establish a Vanderbilt campus in New York City. "The leasing arrangement is not a merger with The General Theological Seminary. The Seminary will continue to operate as a separate entity and maintain its distinct identity and programming."[72]
Chelsea is patrolled by the 10th Precinct of theNYPD, located at 230 West 20th Street.[73] The 10th Precinct ranked 61st safest out of 69 patrol areas for per-capita crime in 2010.[74] As of 2018[update], with a non-fatal assault rate of 34 per 100,000 people, Chelsea and Hell's Kitchen's rate ofviolent crimes per capita is less than that of the city as a whole. The incarceration rate of 313 per 100,000 people is lower than that of the city as a whole.[33]: 8
The 10th Precinct has a lower crime rate than in the 1990s, with crimes across all categories having decreased by 74.8% between 1990 and 2018. The precinct reported 1 murder, 19 rapes, 81 robberies, 103 felony assaults, 78 burglaries, 744 grand larcenies, and 26 grand larcenies auto in 2018.[75]
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Chelsea is served by two fire stations of theNew York City Fire Department (FDNY).[76] Engine Company 1/Ladder Company 24 is located at 142 West 31st Street,[77] while Engine Company 3/Ladder Company 12/Battalion 7 is located at 146 West 19th Street.[78] In addition,FDNY EMS Station 7 is located at 512 West 23rd Street.
Preterm births in Chelsea and Hell's Kitchen are the same as the city average, though teenage births are less common. In Chelsea and Hell's Kitchen, there were 87 preterm births per 1,000 live births (compared to 87 per 1,000 citywide), and 9.9 teenage births per 1,000 live births (compared to 19.3 per 1,000 citywide).[33]: 11 Chelsea and Hell's Kitchen have a low population of residents who areuninsured. In 2018, this population of uninsured residents was estimated to be 11%, slightly less than the citywide rate of 12%.[33]: 14
The concentration offine particulate matter, the deadliest type ofair pollutant, in Chelsea and Hell's Kitchen is 0.0098 mg/m3 (9.8×10−9 oz/cu ft), more than the city average.[33]: 9 Eleven percent of Chelsea and Hell's Kitchen residents aresmokers, which is less than the city average of 14% of residents being smokers.[33]: 13 In Chelsea and Hell's Kitchen, 10% of residents areobese, 5% arediabetic, and 18% havehigh blood pressure—compared to the citywide averages of 24%, 11%, and 28% respectively.[33]: 16 In addition, 14% of children are obese, compared to the citywide average of 20%.[33]: 12
Ninety-one percent of residents eat some fruits and vegetables every day, which is higher than the city's average of 87%. In 2018, 86% of residents described their health as "good", "very good", or "excellent", more than the city's average of 78%.[33]: 13 For every supermarket in Chelsea and Hell's Kitchen, there are 7bodegas.[33]: 10
The nearest major hospitals are theBellevue Hospital Center andNYU Langone Medical Center inKips Bay.[79][80] In addition,Beth Israel Medical Center inStuyvesant Town operated until 2025.[81]
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Chelsea is located within two primaryZIP Codes. The area north of 24th Street is in 10001 while the area south of 24th Street is in 10011.[82] TheUnited States Postal Service operates four post offices in Chelsea:
In addition, the Centralized Parcel Post and theMorgan General Mail Facility are located at 341 9th Avenue.[87][88] The USPS also operates a vehicle maintenance facility on the block bounded by 11th Avenue, 24th Street, 12th Avenue, and 26th Street.[89] This facility has the ZIP Code 10199.[82]
Chelsea and Hell's Kitchen generally have a higher rate of college-educated residents than the rest of the city as of 2018[update]. A majority of residents age 25 and older (78%) have a college education or higher, while 6% have less than a high school education and 17% are high school graduates or have some college education. By contrast, 64% of Manhattan residents and 43% of city residents have a college education or higher.[33]: 6 The percentage of Chelsea and Hell's Kitchen students excelling in math rose from 61% in 2000 to 80% in 2011, and reading achievement increased from 66% to 68% during the same time period.[90]
Chelsea and Hell's Kitchen's rate of elementary school student absenteeism is lower than the rest of New York City. In Chelsea and Hell's Kitchen, 16% of elementary school students missed twenty or more days perschool year, less than the citywide average of 20%.[34]: 24 (PDF p. 55) [33]: 6 Additionally, 81% of high school students in Chelsea and Hell's Kitchen graduate on time, more than the citywide average of 75%.[33]: 6
There are numerous public schools in Chelsea, including PS 11, also known as the William T. Harris School; PS 33, the Chelsea School; the O. Henry School (IS 70); Liberty High School For Newcomers;Lab School; the Museum School; and theBayard Rustin Educational Complex, which houses six small schools.
TheBayard Rustin Educational Complex was founded as Textile High School in 1930, later renamed to Straubenmuller Textile High School, then Charles Evans Hughes High School. In the 1990s, it was renamed the Bayard Rustin High School for the Humanities aftercivil rights activistBayard Rustin.[91] The high school closed in 2012 after a grading scandal, but the building had already started being used as a "vertical campus" housing multiple small schools.Quest to Learn, Hudson High School of Learning Technologies, Humanities Preparatory Academy, James Baldwin School, Landmark High School, and Manhattan Business Academy are the six constituent schools in the complex.
Private schools in the neighborhood includeAvenues: The World School, a K-12 school; and the CatholicXavier High School, a secondary school.
Chelsea is also home to theFashion Institute of Technology, a specializedSUNY unit established in 1944 that serves as a training ground for the city's fashion and design industries.[92] TheSchool of Visual Arts, a for-profitart school,[93] and the publicHigh School of Fashion Industries also have a presence in the design fields.
The neighborhood is also home to theGeneral Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church, the oldest seminary in theAnglican Communion.[94] TheCenter for Jewish History, a consortium of several national research organizations, is a unified library, exhibition, conference, lecture, and performance venue, located on16th Street betweenFifth andSixth Avenues.[95]
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TheNew York Public Library (NYPL) operates two branches in Chelsea. The Muhlenberg branch is located at 209 West 23rd Street. The three-storyCarnegie library building opened in 1906 and was renovated in 2000.[96] TheAndrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library is located at 40 West 20th Street. The current building opened in 1990; theLibrary of Congress has designated the Heiskell branch as the city's "Regional Library of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped" forBraille media andaudiobooks.[97]
The neighborhood is served by theM7,M10,M11,M12,M14 SBS andM23 SBSNew York City Bus routes.New York City Subway routes include the1, 2, and 3 services on Seventh Avenue, theA, C, and E services on Eighth Avenue, and theF, <F>, and M services on Sixth Avenue.[98] The34th Street – Hudson Yards station on the7 and <7> trains opened in September 2015 with its main entrance in Chelsea.[99][100]
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.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)The neighborhood stretches from 6th Avenue west to the Hudson River, and from 14th Street to the upper 20s.
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.
One of those Verizon buildings, a 1929 tan-brick Art Deco high-rise at 212 West 18th Street in Chelsea, is being converted into luxury condominiums. The 53-unit project is called Walker Tower for its architect, Ralph Walker, who also designed several other phone company buildings.... Verizon owns Floors 2 through 7, which contain offices for about a dozen employees who will come to work through a West 17th Street entryway. Mr. Stern owns the condo that encompasses Floors 8 through 23.
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