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CHELSEA APARTMENTS
A great area to buy a condo or coop

Chelsea is a neighborhood on the West Side of the Manhattan borough of New York City. It is located to the south of Hell's Kitchen and the Garment District starting at 34th Street, and north of Greenwich Village, and the Meatpacking District that centers on West 14th Street. West - East boundaries are from West Street to 5th Ave. below 23rd St, and Broadway above 23rd St. The neighborhood is part of Manhattan Community Board 4 and Manhattan Community Board 5. An area in the neighborhood is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Chelsea Historic District.

Chelsea is sometimes referred to, along with Hell's Kitchen, as Manhattan West. A longstanding weekly newspaper is called the Chelsea-Clinton News. The weekly newspaper, Chelsea Now, also serves the neighborhood.

"Chelsea" stood surrounded by its gardens on a full block between Ninth and Tenth Avenues south of 23rd Street until it was replaced by high quality row houses in the mid-19th century. The former rural charm of the neighborhood was tarnished by the freight railroad right-of-way of the Hudson River Railroad, which laid its tracks up Tenth and Eleventh Avenues in 1847 and separated Chelsea from the Hudson River waterfront. Clement Clarke Moore gave the land of his apple orchard for the General Theological Seminary, which built its brownstone Gothic, tree-shaded campus south of "Chelsea."

You'll find great lofts, pre-war buildings and lots of brownstones and townhouses to select from if you are looking to buy or rent. A great place to live and convenient to the 1,2,3, A,C,E, and Path trains.

Prices range from $1500 - $2700 for a luxury doorman building and for the $1500, you may get lucky and get a small studio.

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WEST VILLAGE (GREENWICH VILLAGE)
RENTALS, CONDOS, AND COOPS
A beautiful location to settle down in with a purchase of a condo or coop.

There is no neighborhood like the West Village (Greenwich Village, the village) in the entire New York City. Its a diverse neighborhood that has a life of itself, flowing with artists and musicians, and actors.

In the mid-19th century, however, as the city spread north of 14th Street, the Village became the province of immigrants, bohemians, and students (New York University [NYU], today the nation's largest private university, was planted next to Washington Square in 1831). Its politics were radical and its attitudes tolerant, which is one reason it became a home to such a large lesbian and gay community.

Several generations of writers and artists have lived and worked here: in the 19th century, Henry James, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, and Stephen Crane; at the turn of the 20th century, O. Henry, Edith Wharton, Theodore Dreiser, and Hart Crane; and during the 1920s and '30s, John Dos Passos, Norman Rockwell, Sinclair Lewis, John Reed, Eugene O'Neill, Edward Hopper, and Edna St. Vincent Millay. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, the abstract expressionist painters Franz Kline, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning congregated here, as did the Beat writers Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

Today, block for block, the Village is still one of the most vibrant parts of the city. Well-heeled professionals occupy high-rent apartments and town houses side by side with bohemian, longtime residents -- who pay cheap rents thanks to rent-control laws -- as well as NYU students.  The village is not just a place to live. Its a neighborhood like in the suburban neighborhoods. You'll get to know the store owners, the landlords, and your neighbors. A very strong block association for Perry Street, 10th street, Christopher Street, Charles Street, West 12th street. A beautiful place to bring kids up or to live as a couple or a single. You'll find a quiet respite from the rest of the city here. Relax and stay a while.
Average price here is $1800 for a small studio and $2400 for a 1 bedroom. Not too big but not too small. Location is everything here so people have a tendency to compromise on space and price for being on a street from the 1800's. As for the condo and coop market, that varies from building to building.

FLATIRON DISTRICT, GRAMERCY PARK
UNION SQUARE APARTMENT RENTALS.
Live where the action is. Look into a condo or coop purchase.

As Broadway marches north and west across Manhattan it forms a series of squares beginning with Union Square at 14th Street. The square itself hosts a popular

Greenmarket, and before Christmas, a crafts market. In this neighborhood are some of the city's trendiest restaurants lining Park Avenue South up to 23rd Street. Madison Square, the site of the original Madison Square Garden, is dominated by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Tower and the Flatiron Building (20-stories and triangular). It was once the end of "ladies mile," the city's most fashionable shopping district along Broadway and Sixth Avenue; this area still has great shopping. To its east is Gramercy Park, a small, fenced park acessible only to residents of its surrounding townhouses. Theodore Roosevelt was born in this neighborhood.

Prices are very reasonable here. A studio can be found for as little as $1500 and you can get a lovely 1 bedroom for $1900. Also, a coop is very reasonable. You may be able to find a small 1 bedroom for $500,000 even with a doorman.

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SOHO

Starting at Houston (pronounced how-ston) Street, walk south down Broadway, stopping to browse the stores and vendor stands between Houston and Prince streets. The sole remaining museum on the block is the New Museum of Contemporary Art, devoted exclusively to living artists. Within the Prada store at 575 Broadway, Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas has created a high-tech setting for the Italian house of fashion. Several art galleries share these blocks as well, most notably at 568 Broadway, which houses 10 galleries, and the trendy Armani Exchange store on the ground level.

Just south of Prince Street, 560 Broadway on the east side of the block is another popular exhibit space, home to a dozen or so galleries. Across the street at No. 561, Ernest Flagg's 1904 Little Singer Building shows the final flower of the cast-iron style, with wrought-iron balconies, terra-cotta panels, and broad expanses of windows.

One block south of the Little Singer Building, between Spring and Broome streets, a cluster of lofts that were originally part of the 1897 New Era Building share an art nouveau copper mansard at No. 495. At the northeast corner of Broadway and Broome Street is the Haughwout Building, a restored classic of the cast-iron genre.

At the southeast corner of Broadway and Broome Street, the former Mechanics and Traders Bank (486 Broadway) is a Romanesque and Moorish revival building with half-round brick arches.

If you have youngsters in tow, head east on Grand Street two blocks to the Children's Museum of the Arts, where the interactive exhibits provide a welcome respite from SoHo's mostly grown-up pursuits. Otherwise, walk west on Grand Street three short blocks to discover several of SoHo's better exhibition spaces clustered on the south end of Greene and Wooster streets near Grand and Canal streets. These include Deitch Projects (76 Grand St.), the Drawing Center (35 Wooster St.), and Spencer Brownstone (39 Wooster St.).

Because this was one of the first areas to be settled by Europeans the apartment buildings are very old and almost all of them are walkups as in the west village. Inventory is very low here for rentals but if you are in the market to purchase a coop or condo, you can get great space here on a beautiful street.