CHELSEA (West 14th Street to 30th Street, Seventh Avenue to the Hudson River)
Once defined mainly by its gay-centric boutiques and boites, Chelsea is now where art lives, in nearly 200 galleries. Further enhanced by the miraculous High Line Park, which has spawned a luxury condominium boomlet on its perimeters, the neighborhood has become synonymous with urban chic. Single families are reclaiming many of the side-street townhouses, but it is the new luxury condominium construction designed by marquee name architects like Gehry, Stern and Nouvel, as well as the innovative metamorphoses of former commercial buildings into breathtaking residences that go from Green to Zen, that are generating the headlines.
