Meatpacking District, Manhattan Totally Explained

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The Meatpacking District, officially known as Gansevoort Market, is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan. It runs roughly from West 14th Street south to Gansevoort Street, and from the Hudson River east to Hudson Street, although it has extended to the north to West 16th Street and east beyond Hudson Street in recent years.

History

By 1900, Gansevoort Market was home to 250 slaughterhouses and packing plants, but by the 1980s, it had also become known as a center for drug dealing and prostitution, particularly transsexuals.
Beginning in the late 1990s, the Meatpacking District went through a transformation. High-end boutiques such as Diane von Furstenberg, Christian Louboutin, Alexander McQueen, Stella McCartney, Scoop, ADAM by Adam Lippes and CALYPSO by Christiane Celle, restaurants such as Pastis and Buddha Bar, and nightclubs such as Tenjune, One, G-Spa, Cielo, APT, Level V, and Kiss and Fly, all have recently opened in order to cater to young professionals and hipsters. In 2004, New York magazine called the Meatpacking District "New York’s most fashionable neighborhood". The LPC granted only part of their request: the new district excluded the neighborhood's waterfront, and the restrictions associated with the designation didn't apply to the 14-story luxury hotel (the Hotel Gansevoort) which opened in April 2004.

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