chelsea

001-Chelsea Hotel	002-Hugh O’Neill Dry Goods Store	003-Westyard Distribution Center	004-Empire Diner	005 Port of New York Authority Building
006 Salvation Army Centennial Memorial Temple	007 428-450 West 23rd St.	008 Starret-Lehigh Building	009 Joyce Theater	010 The New York Savings Bank
011 128 West 18th St.	012 Church of the Holy Communion	013 Capitol at Chelsea	014 Gorham Silver Company	015 Lord and Taylor Building
016 17 West 16th St.	017 Church of St. Francis Xavier	018 Siegel-Cooper Dry Goods Store	019 General Theological Seminary	020 Fashion Institute of Technology
021 Cushman Row	022 Church of the Holy Apostles	023 London Terrace	024 437-459 West 24th St	025 National Maritme Union
026 Stern Brothers Department Store	027 Goelet Building	028 Commme des Garcons	029 The High Line	030 Perry West
31 Church of the Guardian Angel	032 26 E14	033 Chelsea Market	034 Mary Boone Gallery	035 Chelsea Piers
036 The Porter House	010A New York County Savings Bank	037 The Nomadic Museum	038 338 23rd Street	039 340 23rd Street
040 Immaculate Conception Church	041 IAC/InterActiveCorp Offices

 

The New York neighborhood called Chelsea takes its name from the estate of Captain Thomas Clarke, who retired to the then rural land after winning glory in the French and Indian Wars. He named the estate, ironically, for the home for retired soldiers in London, but during the Revolutionary War the British occupied Chelsea. Their daughter Charity married the Episcopal Bishop of New York, Benjamin Moore, and it was their son, Clement Moore, who penned the famous "A Visit From St. Nicholas" (remembered by most as "The Night Before Christmas"). By the 1850s Clement had divided the estate into lots and developed his grandfather's estate into a proto-suburb, now a thriving neighborhood of brownstones, tenements, tree-lined streets, and ferociously ugly apartment towers.

Click here for some notes on the Hudson River Park walk.