Meatpacking District, Manhattan
The Meatpacking District, officially called the Gansevoort Market, is a district (called Neighborhood) in the southwest of the Boroughs Manhattan in New York. It covers an area of about 18 ha and extends south of West 14th Street to Gansevoort Street and from the Hudson River to Hudson Street.
Formerly known for a dubious mixture of meat factories, night clubs and prostitution, the district is now changing a social restructuring process.
History
In 1884, after Peter Gansevoort designated Gansevoort Market was founded in the Meatpacking District. 1949 opened the Gansevoort Meat Center. In 1900, about 250 slaughterhouses were in the Meatpacking District resident who helped the district its name. Mainly due to higher rents are available today only about 35 of them.
Development
The character of the district is still dominated by industrial buildings. Many designer labels but have respect vacant industrial building since the 1990s, and further contribute to the transformation of the "scene Neighborhoods " at. 2004 accelerated the New York magazine in its judgment " New York 's most fashionable neighborhood" the success story of the Meatpacking District on. The Hotel Gansevoort is one next to famous restaurants and clubs to the tourist magnets of the region.
The particular due to the industrial meat production and processing have become necessary High Line, a 1932-1980 used in the District of elevated railway is converted complex with public funds to park since 2006. A first part of the new green space that opened in 2009.
Projects such as the transformation of the High Line make the district also attractive to the art scene. The Whitney Museum of American Art has already announced to opposite the main stairway to the High Line at Gansevoort Street to open a museum, designed by Renzo Piano.
As a response to the new, prestigious construction projects to set up a citizens' initiative that in 2004 the construction of a 128 m high luxury apartment building prevented and obtained that a twelve block area of the Meatpacking District comprehensive was placed under monument protection.