Meat Packing District
Rough and tough bikers, big brawny meatpackers, uptown girls in limousines and world-renowned photographers and models all stand steps away from each other at Hogs and Heifers, Jeffrey, Pastis and the fashion-photo studios of Industria. This is the Meatpacking District in a nutshell. For wine connoisseurs there is Rhone, a converted garage space that has no sign and no obvious entry, save a few Alice in Wonderland doors made of steel that all look alike. The tall glass windows give away the candle-lit revelers and diners within. After-party and disco babes love the 24-hour cuisine at the French diner Florent. After 5 am, it fills up with drag queens and Naomi Campbell look-alikes.
Chelsea, however, is really about streets flooded with galleries for Manhattan痴 young and famous artists. Andrea Rosen, Barbara Gladstone and Matthew Marks run three of the art scene's most provoking and long-standing (in this fickle city) galleries. Chelsea also appeals to and has drawn in members of New York痴 gay and gay-friendly communities. Its fresh new restaurants, amazing food markets and well preserved architecture are truly an insider痴 haven in New York.
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Comme
des Garcons
520 West 22nd St
Stepping through the tube-like entrance of Comme
des Garcons is strangely reminiscent of that scene in the film Contact.
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Destination
32-36 Little West 12th Street
Set in Manhattan trendy Meat Packing district,
Destination whitewashed wood floors and large display tables give
patrons a sense of openness and light.
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Girlshop
819 Washington Street
Wrapped up in a swathe of 1970's pineapple wallpaper the virtual online store girlshop has crossed the chasm, into the brick and mortar world - dab smack in the middle of New York's meat packing district to be exact.
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Intermix
125
Fifth Ave
There
are two stores熔ne on Madison, one on Fifth. Does that mean Intermix is
a (gasp) chain?
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Jeffrey New York
449
West 14th St
All those brand-names you remember from having flipped
through your mother痴 Vogue circa 1976雄SL, Gucci, Ferragamo and Courreges.
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Paul
Smith
108
Fifth Ave
One admires a well-cut black wool suit and reaches to try it on when a
flash of acid green taunts the eye.
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