Gansevoort Market Historic District (New York, N.Y.)
Date:
2014
Contents:
Introduction: Developing New York's far West Side: contemporary art, the High Line, Megaprojects, and urban growth -- Part I: Contemporary art -- Chelsea as New York's dominant contemporary art gallery neighborhood: a real estate and finance story -- Contemporary art and life -- Part II: "Preservation" projects -- The High Line -- The Gansevoort Market: from meat smells and prostitution to historic district, fashion central, Google headquarters, and Whitney Museum -- Part III: Megaprojects: why they often don't happen or take so long if they do, from Javits expansion to Moynihan Station -- The Javits expansion fiasco -- The debate over urban stadiums: the New York Sports and Convention Center fight (2004-2005) -- The Hudson Yards: rezonings of 2004-2009 and beyond: the city's uniform land use review process, inclusionary zoning for affordable housing, tax increment financing and the Number 7 subway extension, and the Culture Shed -- Penn/Moynihan Station, 1992: fixing infrastructure -- Part IV: Challenges to Chelsea's art gallery district from the Lower East Side -- The Lower East Side and the new museum: the next Chelsea, or another "wrong turn"? -- Conclusion: Balancing urban growth and protection/preservation
