explore new york's chelsea neighborhood
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The Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, which is located west of Fifth Avenue from 14th Street to about 30th Street, has become a chic New York neighborhood with its share of art galleries, boutique shops, bars and some very good restaurants. If you’-re visiting New York City, try to make a day trip to Chelsea.
Things You'll Need
- Street map of Manhattan
- <-br>-Subway map of Manhattan
Instructions
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Begin with a 3-hour food-tasting tour of Chelsea, operated by Foods of NY. The tour will take you to 7 different restaurants in Chelsea and the meatpacking district, including Amy's Breads, the well-known Sarabeth’-s Bakery, the Lobster Place fish market and the Manhattan Fruit Exchange. The tour is $42 and includes the food tasting. Reservations are required and you can make them online.
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Check out Chelsea's many restaurants on your own, beginning with the Chelsea Brewing Company at the Chelsea Piers, a microbrew and restaurant. Move on to the Chelsea Grill, which Zagat’-s says serves great burgers. Also popular is celebrity chef Bobby Flay's Mesa Grill, located at 102 Fifth Ave., one of New York Magazine’-s best restaurants of the year. Try the tapas at El Quinto Pino, 401 W. 24th St., near Ninth Ave., voted the best tapas bar in the city by New York Magazine this year.
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Hang out and eat at the Chelsea Market, at 75 Ninth Ave., a must on any tour of this neighborhood. Housed in the old Nabisco Factory, this place is gourmet heaven, with bakeries like Amy's Bread, Eleni's and the Fat Witch Bakery. There's fresh produce from Buon Italia and yummy takeout from Thai Wholesale or the Ronnybrook Milk Bar. It’-s a fun place for lunch and browsing on the weekend. You can also watch the Food Network tape its shows here.
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Shop with the regulars and the tourists at Chelsea’-s myriad vintage clothing stores, including the Angel Street Thrift Shop at 118 W. 17th St.- The Garage, at 112 W. 25th St., an indoor flea market with high quality vintage clothing and home goods- Family Jewels Vintage Clothing at 130 W. 23rd St., or Manhattan Vintage Clothing Show at 125 W. 18th St.
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Spend big bucks at designer clothing boutiques, including parke & ronen at 176 Ninth Ave., an uber-chic men’-s store- Camouflage at 141 Eighth Ave., which carries Marc Jacobs- Jeffrey New York at 449 W. 14th St., which stocks fresh-from-the-runway designer clothing- and Stella McCartney at 429 W. 14th St., where you’-ll find the designer’-s groovy clothing line.
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Stroll by Kleinfeld Bridal, even if it’-s just to window-shop. The well-known, bustling store and its more than 1,000 wedding gowns, made famous by the TLC program, “-Say Yes to the Dress,”- is located at 110 W. 20th St.
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Spend part of the weekend at the Hell's Kitchen Flea Market, located on W. 39th St. from Ninth to Tenth Aves., and open every Saturday and Sunday. More than 170 vendors sell crafts, antiques, jewelry, vintage clothing and more at this popular flea market, where you might see a few celebrities under those dark sunglasses and the baseball caps. Everyone loves this flea market.
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Browse in some of Chelsea’-s numerous art galleries, which attract both serious collectors and the simply curious. Most galleries are clustered from about W. 20th to W. 27th Street, and include the edgy art at The Kitchen at 512 W. 19th St., the psychedelic art headquarters of the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors at 542 W. 27th St., the classic Gorney Bravin + Lee Gallery at 534 W 26th St., the hip Marianne Boesky Gallery at 535 W 22nd St., and the striking photography mounted at the Matthew Marks Gallery, 522 W. 22nd St.
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Stay at the historic Hotel Chelsea if you’-re adventurous. This landmark but slightly rundown hotel at West 23rd Street bills itself as “-a birthplace of creative modern art and home of bad behavior.”- The 12-story red-brick building, built in 1883, is where Bob Dylan, Mark Twain, Tennessee Williams, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and others lived or stayed. It’-s also where the writer Dylan Thomas died of alcohol poisoning in the 1950s, and rocker Sid Vicious allegedly stabbed his girlfriend to death in 1978. A standard room with a bath starts at $189.
Tips &- Warnings
Because Chelsea businesses come and go quickly, consider picking up the Chelsea Guide, a portable book that contains 200 pages of listings in categories such as Arts & Culture, Eats & Treats, Fashion & Beauty and a special section on the Meatpacking District. The booklet costs $18 and can be ordered online at sohonyc.com (see Resources below).
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