Chelsea






General Info

Thanks to the overhead railway built in 1870 Chelsea area became a commercial area. It soon became a ill reputed zone, called "Tenderloin District" thanks to the ball rooms and to the brothels that sprung. Thanks to the opening of Macy's in 1901 Chelsea area gained new respectability and now the area near the department stores and Seventh Avenue is known as "Fashion Avenue". In Chelsea you will find the Madison Square Garden and, on the famous Fifth Avenue, one of the symbols of New York: the Empire State Building.


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Fire seen from Emp. St. Bld.
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Chelsea Fire seen from Emp. St. Bld.

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« New York Hotels [A] Suites of Chelsea Star ** 0.5 Km
      302 West 30th Street at 8th Avenue
[B] Chelsea Star Hotel * 0.5 Km
      300 West 30th Street
[C] Four Points by Sheraton M *** 0.6 Km
      160 West 25th Street
[D] THE MARITIME HOTEL 0.7 Km
      363 WEST 16TH STREET
[E] Affinia Manhattan *** 0.7 Km
      371 Seventh Avenue
[F] Hampton Inn New York Chel ** 0.7 Km
      108 W 24th St
[G] FURNISHED QUARTERS 777 6T 0.8 Km
      777 SIXTH AVENUE
[H] Hotel Pennsylvania ** 0.8 Km
      401 7th Avenue
[I] The New Yorker Ramada Inn *** 0.8 Km
      481 Eighth Avenue
    34th Street Suites ** 0.8 Km
      455 West 34th Street
    New Yorker Ramada Plaza 0.8 Km
      481 Eighth Ave.
    TOWERS AT THE NEW YORKER 0.8 Km
      485 8th Avenue
    Hotel 309 * 0.9 Km
      309 West 14th Street
    Regency Inn and Suites Ne ** 0.9 Km
      215 West 34th Street
    The Regency Inn & Suites ** 0.9 Km
      215 West 34th Street
    Regency Inn & Suites ** 0.9 Km
      215 W 34th Street Between 7th & 8th Ave
    Hampton Inn Madison Squar ** 0.9 Km
      116 W 31 Street

[Z] Garment District 0.9 Km
      Garment District, New York
[Y] Flatiron District 1.1 Km
      Fifth Avenue and Broadway, New York
[X] Empire State Building 1.3 Km
      350 Fifth Avenue, between 33rd and 34th Streets
[W] Morgan Library & Museum 1.5 Km
      225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street
[V] Gramercy 1.8 Km
      Gramercy New York
[U] Washington Square Park 1.8 Km
      Washington Square Park New York
[T] Lower Midtown 1.9 Km
      Lower Midtown
[S] Upper Midtown 1.9 Km
      Upper Midtown