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While working on yesterday's story about the new Renzo Piano-designed restaurant planned for under the High Line, we stumbled on this rather amazing video of the new Whitney posted on the Hight Line blog. Read More
Fashionable club-goers and maybe even a few hog butchers will be able to navigate the brick roads of the meatpacking district in style now that Nicholas Kirkwood, the upscale designer footwear brand has inked a 1,572-square-foot retail deal at 807 Washington Street.
Located between Gansevoort and Horatio streets, the ground-floor boutique is scheduled to open by winter of 2012, broker said. As with most space—office and retail alike—asking prices have risen in the area since the High Line park opened two years ago, although specific prices at 807 Washington Street were not immediately available. Read More
The architecture magnet that is the High Line is still attracting those big steel-and-glass gems. The Standard, the Whitney, Diane Von Furstenburg's place, Frank Gehry, Jean Nouvel, Neil Denari and his crooked HL23—all are there, and so is Morris Adjmi. He already has the XXX-rated High Line Building, and he has been hard at work wooing the Landmarks Preservation Commission with his designs for 837 Washington Street. Yesterday, the commission approved the project 8-2. Read More
The Whitney Museum broke ground last week. Buried by all the fanfare was the fact that the august institution still has a good deal of money to raise before it finishes its Renzo Piano-designed museum in 2015, about $200 million, a little under one-third the cost of the new building. Any deals it can Read More
The preppy lifestyle may look like a relaxing one, but Tommy Hilfiger has been a busy, busy man. Last year, he sold his eponymous company, where he is still the lead designer, for $3 billion. Since then, he has been casting about Manhattan for somewhere to build his very own hotel, according to The Read More
The Prudential Douglas Elliman listing for this $29,000 a month loft calls it the "perfect home " with "soaring ceilings, exposed brick and numerous windows" making it perfect for "a couple, a large family or even the ultimate bachelor/ette."
So basically anyone with $29,900 a month to drop on an apartment.
The rest of the Read More
By now there is no better place than the Meatpacking District to oggle and be oggled. All the more reason, of course, to do so in some stylish eyewear.
High-end Maxim Eyes Optical is opening a 1,400-square-foot, ground-floor shop at 805 Washington Street, just across the street from Intermix's new digs and not too far from Read More
It's nearing last call at one of the Meatpacking District's swankier spots, and there's someone you're trying to impress.
All of a sudden, a limo pulls up. Perfect, you think. I'll look like such a classy guy. But much to your surprise, this is not a limo at all, but rather a fake, license-less, potentially dangerous Read More
The High Line has become the backbone of the city's best architecture, this generation's Park Avenue. From the Standard Hotel to Nouvel's 100 11th, from Frank Gehry's IAC HQ to HL23, the High Line--itself an exquisite work of architecture and landscaping--has won a reputation as the best spot to build stunning new structures, as well Read More
Q: What happens when the Sam Sifton, food critic for The New York Times, takes on Lavo, a Las Vegas nightclub-cum-restaurant plunked in the middle of Midtown?
A: We get sentences like this!
Take your girl down and get some vodka on. Your boys as well.
Well then! Lavo is the newly opened, big-plattered, glitz-heavy sister eatery Read More
NYC's Wine & Food Festival is aiming this year to "Celebrate the charm of the Meatpacking District," which we're not quite sure it has, and promised that a new event to be held there over Columbus Day weekend will crown New York's "Sandwich King."
All told, 40 of the events in the annual chowdown's four-day extravaganza Read More
The High Line may be getting a new neighbor.
The opportunistic landlords Taconic Investment Partners and Square Mile Capital are planning a new office and retail building at 837 Washington Street, across from the Standard Hotel, a structure that would rise over the two-story red and tan brick building currently on the site.
Taconic, which owns Chelsea Market Read More
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The gods of denim will soon be squeezing into the meatpacking district. With a new lease on West 14th Street, the Levi's store will be stocked full of skinny jeans to accommodate a "mecca for savvy, creative and artistic consumers," as Levi's vice president Joelle Maher put it. (O.K., possibly Read More
The city's Board of Standards and Appeals approved on Tuesday zoning variances that would allow a 175-foot tower to be built at 437 West 13th Street in the Meatpacking District.
The 10-story, mixed-use tower, rebranded 860 Washington Street, will be allowed to be about 24 percent taller than the neighborhood's current zoning allows, after developer Romanoff Read More
About a week before Election Day, with little fanfare, the Bloomberg Administration announced its one hundredth zoning change since the mayor came into office in 2002. In New York City, zoning is one of the most important regulatory tools available to government in its efforts to enhance sustainability and the quality of life available for Read More
