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The High Line is urban redevelopment at its creative, nondestructive, value-added best, the city's first elevated park, built on top of a repurposed 1920s-era elevated freight train track, all rusted baroque, that winds through the far west Village, meatpacking district and Chelsea for one and a... more

From porthole to just plain pimpery. The maritime building was originally designed as the headquarters for the sailor's union in the 60's. It later became a shelter for estranged teenagers. In its final incarnation, it is the genius brainchild of hoteliers McPherson and Goode, who turned its... more

The first major New York project by starchitect du jour Frank Gehry (who had previously designed the renowned Conde Naste cafeteria and the Issey Miyake flagship store in the city), the IAC Building has been called an ethereal corporate headquarters, widely praised by architecture critics and lay... more

A fashion industry feeder school, FIT is thought to offer one of the more rigorous, well-regarded undergraduate programs in design in the country, but it sure isn’t much to look at: a hulking mass of heavy concrete that clogs up several streets in otherwise perfectly human-scaled Chelsea. The... more

A sports-industrial complex built on stilts and piers that stretch out into the Hudson river, Chelsea Piers is a playground for Manhattan's adults large enough to hold a mid-sized city. The complex occupies four large piers between 17th and 23rd streets on the far west side of Manhattan, a... more

Part supermarket and part greenmarket, part mini-mall and part gourmet buffet, Chelsea Market is an eclectic mix of sandwich shops, bakeries, wine stores—and certainly the best place in New York to get lunch on the run. Many busy New Yorkers do just that: the building, once the factory-heart of... more