By Daniel Geiger 1/03/12 1:00pm

Lease of the Week

450 West 15th Street. (Courtesy Property Shark)

Re-inVenting the Meatpacking District

inVentiv Health, a multifaceted provider of services in the health care industry, has signed a 75,000-square-foot renewal and expansion for its subsidiary Chandler Chicco Agency at 450 West 15th Street.

The company, which handles public relations and advertising for health care companies, renewed its lease for the 300,000-square-foot building’s entire seventh floor and a portion of six. The firm will expand onto part of the building’s fourth floor, taking a little over 21,000 square feet. Read More

By Stephen Duffy 12/07/11 4:18pm

Gettin' High Line

Plans go here. (Friends of the High Line)

Topsoil, Trains and Toilets On High Line Wish List

“I’d love to see a locomotive up there,” Chelsea resident Grant Anderson said before a packed auditorium at P.S. 11 last night. His proposal for the third and final section of the High Line, encircling the Hudson Yards, was met with a burst of spontaneous applause.

Not only did it have the proper fanciful feel of the park that seems to float, as if by magic, above the hubbub of Manhattan, but it also had its antecedents.  “One of the great things about the High Line is you still get a sense of history,” he continued. “Just imagine the feeling—looking up and seeing a train and boxcar down the street.” Read More

By Matt Chaban 12/05/11 6:02pm

Mr. Ross' Neighborhood

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Your Line? My Line? Help Design the High Line

That was the easy part.

Now that the High Line has become a smash success, Friends of the High Line has to decided what to do with the third and final section of the elevated park, which surround Hudson Yards. After fighting for decades to preserve and then transform the old rail line, it was not clear this section of track would be preserved or replaced by some alternative park, as the city worked to redevelop the site.

The Related Company and the Bloomberg administration both agreed it should be, and now that their work is underway in creating a new Baltimore on the West Side of Manhattan, so too is the Friends’ job of figuring out what should surround it.

That all starts tomorrow night. Read More

By Elise Knutsen 9/23/11 5:56pm

Troubling Developments

Chelsea Market (Photo from Curbed)

Some People Like Chelsea Market's Giant New Addition, Say People Building Giant New Addition

The battle to expand Chelsea Market has once again come to a head—a giant glassy head.  Neighborhood residents are none too pleased with Jamestown Properties’ plans, which call for 250,000 square feet of office space to be added to the existing Ninth Avenue structure and the construction of a neighboring twelve-story hotel.

Among the Read More

By Matt Chaban 6/23/11 11:57am

manifest density

The party is over. (NY Social Diary)

Bungalowed: How the High Line Killed Club Row

Once upon a debauched time, West 27th Street was the beat, beat, beating heart of the city’s club scene, with such notorious haunts as Pink Elephant, B.E.D., Spirit and, of course, the queen of them all, Bungalow 8. Marquee still throbs around the corner, but that is about it—all thanks to an elevator shaft and a little rezoning. Read More

By Emily Geminder 8/10/10 10:57pm

ADDRESS BOOK

West Side Hypernova

The rail yards on Manhattan’s far West Side, like the developers’ dreams and mayoral agendas they inspire, slouch wearily toward the Hudson. For a necropolis of transit systems past (the Hudson River Railroad, the New York Central, the High Line), the Hudson Yards offer up eternal-and seemingly eternally deferred-promise, the heady rush of Read More

By Julia Halperin 6/29/10 11:56am

Art Snapshot

Art Snapshot: The Top 10 Art Stories of the Week

A princess begins work at Christie’s, ancient apostle paintings discovered in Rome, and work by Stephen Vitiello and Yoko Ono take root in New York. It can’t be a slow summer when there is this much action in the art world.

1. Princess Eugenie of York Interns at Christie’s
Princess Eugenie, the 20-year-old daughter of Read More