When Sally Greenspan moved into a converted notions factory on
West 20th Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues 35 years ago, the area was
industrial, she recalled, with few shops, restaurants or other residential
amenities.
“It was like the Wild West,” said Ms. Greenspan, 71, a retired
marketing executive who came from the Upper East Side with her husband,
Michael, a biochemist who wanted a quicker commute to his job in New Jersey.
The area, which is often called East Chelsea — it extends from
West 14th to West 30th Streets and from Sixth Avenue to Ninth Avenue, where
West Chelsea begins — started becoming residential about 20 years ago. But
change has been more rapid, she said, in the past several years: “We’ve seen an
enormous number of young families move in. It’s been an explosion.”
Older buildings have been converted to apartments, and the
remaining open spaces — many of them former parking lots — have been filled in
with new construction. “It’s now a destination area,” she said, “with hot
restaurants and hot bars.”
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