Chelsea

When you’ve got a business in Chelsea you know your neighborhood transforms from day to day, hour to hour.  You’re going to need security that will protect your business within this variant environment.

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Chelsea is bound by 6th Ave to Hudson and 14th to 34th Streets. Near historical Greenwich Village and the Meatpacking District, Chelsea is also an area of interested and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Chelsea is named after the home of retired British Major Thomas Clarke, who named his first home after the manor of Chelsea, London, home to Sir Thomas Moore. Moore’s home “Chelsea stood a full block between Ninth and Tenth Avenues, south of 23rd Street until it was replaced by row houses in the mid-19th century. When Moore’s apple orchard surrounding his estate was divided with the Commissioner’s Plan of 1811, Moore divided his entire estate into lots and sold them to well-heeled New Yorkers.

This soon became the neighborhood we know as ‘Chelsea’ filled with galleries, antique shops and furniture stores. Chelsea begins at the south tip of 30th Street and the north tip of 14th Street and stretches from 6th Avenue to the West End.

In 1883, New York’s tallest building (and first co-op) was built known as The Chelsea Hotel. By the time the 200,000 square foot space was converted into a hotel in 1905, artists and writers were flocking to it. By the 1960’s The Chelsea Hotel was filled with the likes of Bob Dylan, Andy Warhol, Janis Joplin, Allen Ginsberg, Eugene O’Neil, Jimi Hendrix, Dylan Thomas and Jim Morrison. Leonard Cohen’s legendary song The Chelsea Hotel was about a particular morning with a fellow musician. In October 2010, this iconic hotel announced that is was for sale.

In the 1990’s visual artists left SoHo for Chelsea. Today the neighborhood is Manhattan’s center for contemporary art, home to over 370 art galleries and innumerable studios.

The Chelsea Market is a neighborhood landmark. It’s a restored building turned market and host to a variety of vendors, including bakeries, Italian grocery stores, a fish market, the Manhattan Fruit Exchange, wine stores and many others.

Chelsea is also one of the leading LGBT communities in Manhattan, including home of the LGBT-oriented synagogue, Congregation Beth Simchat Torah. Recently the High Line is one of the most ambitious and pleasant attractions of Chelsea. A deserted elevated subway track turned urban garden is not only stunning, but is filled with the rejuvenation we love New York for. Other landmarks include the Chelsea Piers, The Rubin Museum and the Peter McManus Café.