The Chelsea Transformation

The New York art world’s migration to Chelsea continues unabated, and the formerly unfashionable neighborhood now sports twice as many galleries as SoHo had at the height of its own art boom in the 1990s. With the trendy galleries, of course, come upscale restaurants and hip nightclubs, which is exactly the fast-moving gentrification process that causes New York artists to seek out a new (and affordable) neighborhood every decade or so. But for now, Chelsea is unquestionably the place to be in the Big Apple.