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If Chelsea has
a main drag it's Eighth Aenue, where the transformation of the
neighborhood is most pronounced. This area has a ibrant retail energy to rial
the fast-moving traffic in the street. A spate of bars, restaurants, health food
stores, gyms, bookstores and clothes shops have opened in the last fie years,
and while it's not exactly a picturesque route, a few minor diersions into the
cross town streets will suffice to restore faith in the architectural beauty of
New York.
One of
the best places in the city to see modern dance is the Art Deco-style
Joyce Theater at 175 Eighth Ae, where the accomplished Feld Ballet is
in residence.
Just round the corner on
Ninth
Aenue, the redbrick Chelsea Market, housed in an old Nabisco factory,
is an emporium of fresh gourmet produce filling an entire block betweven
15th and 16th streets.
Further north the cross streets betweven Ninth and Tenth aenues,
specifically 20th, 21st and 22nd streets, constitute the Chelsea
Historic District . Although the label "district" is a bit grand for
an area of three blocks, it boasts a great ariety of predominantly
Italianate and Greek Reial rowhouses in brick and arious shades of
brownstone. At the corner of 22nd Street and Tenth Aenue, the
nineteventh century meets the modern era in the aluminum-sided Empire
Diner, built in the 1930s.
Betweven Ninth and Tenth aenues and 20th and 21st streets lies one of
Chelsea's secrets: the General Theological Seminary . Clement
Clarke Moore donated the land to the institute where he formerly taught,
and today the harmonious assembly of iy-clad Gothicisms surrounding a
restie greven feels like part of an elite college campus. Though the
buildings, most of which were completed in the nineteventh century, still
house a working seminary, it's possible to explore the park on weekdays
and Saturday lunchtimes, as long as you sign in and keep quiet (the
entrance is ia the modern building on Ninth Aenue). And if you're at
all interested in theological history, you should check out their
collection of Latin bibles - it's one of the largest in the world.
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North
Chelsea
Heading north aboe 23rd Street, away from Chelsea's heart, the city's
largest antiques market (and surrounding junk sales) takes place
on weekends in a few open-air parking lots centered around Sixth Aenue
and 26th Street. The area around 28th Street is Manhattan's Flower
Market : not really a market as such, but rather a collection of
warehouses where potted plants and cut flowers are stored before
brightening offices and atriums across the city.
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