West Chelsea Is Granted Historic Status
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The Landmarks Preservation Commission has designated West Chelsea as New York City’s newest historic district. At a meeting yesterday the 11-member commission voted unanimously to designate the area that stretches from West 28th Street to West 25th Street between Tenth and Twelfth avenues as the city’s 92nd historic district. A total of 30 buildings in the one-time bustling manufacturing district — including the Central Stores Building on West 27th Street, the Otis Elevator Building on Eleventh Avenue, and R.C. Williams and Co. Building on Tenth Avenue — will receive protective status.
“West Chelsea’s streetscapes owe their cohesiveness and special character to the fact that the majority of the district’s buildings, which are 75 years old or more, are still remarkably intact,” the chairman of the commission, Robert Tierney, said in a statement.
