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Must-see attractions in West Village, Chelsea & Meatpacking District

  • Hudson River Park

    West Village, Chelsea & Meatpacking District

    The High Line may be all the rage these days, but one block away from that famous elevated park stretches a 5-mile-long recreational space that has…

  • Pathway at Highline Park

    High Line

    West Village, Chelsea & Meatpacking District

    It’s hard to believe that the 1½-mile-long High Line – a shining example of brilliant urban renewal – was once a dingy freight line that anchored a rather…

  • Washington Square Park is a favorite summer spot for locals

    Washington Square Park

    West Village, Chelsea & Meatpacking District

    This former potter’s field and square for public executions is now the unofficial town square of Greenwich Village, hosting lounging NYU students, tuba…

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March 22, 2016: The new Whitney museum, a six-story asymmetrical building designed by Renzo Piano.

    Whitney Museum of American Art

    West Village, Chelsea & Meatpacking District

    After years of construction, the Whitney's downtown location opened to much fanfare in 2015. Anchoring the southern reaches of the High Line, this…

  • Chelsea Market

    West Village, Chelsea & Meatpacking District

    In a shining example of redevelopment and preservation, the Chelsea Market has transformed a former factory into a shopping concourse that caters to…

  • Pace Gallery

    West Village, Chelsea & Meatpacking District

    With seven galleries across the world – including this eight-story Chelsea flagship – and decades of experience showing the work of such artists as Willem…

  • New York University

    West Village, Chelsea & Meatpacking District

    In 1831 Albert Gallatin, formerly Secretary of the Treasury under President Thomas Jefferson, founded an intimate center of higher learning open to all…

  • Chelsea Hotel

    West Village, Chelsea & Meatpacking District

    This red-brick hotel, built in the 1880s and featuring ornate iron balconies and no fewer than seven plaques declaring its literary landmark status, has…

  • Grace Church

    West Village, Chelsea & Meatpacking District

    This Gothic Revival Episcopal church, designed in 1843 by James Renwick Jr, was made of marble quarried by prisoners at ‘Sing Sing,’ the state…

  • Rubin Museum of Art

    West Village, Chelsea & Meatpacking District

    The Rubin is the first museum in the Western world to dedicate itself to the art of the Himalayas and surrounding regions. Its impressive collection spans…

  • Stonewall National Monument

    West Village, Chelsea & Meatpacking District

    In 2016 President Barack Obama declared Christopher Park, a small fenced-in triangle with benches and some greenery in the heart of the West Village, a…

  • Pier 45

    West Village, Chelsea & Meatpacking District

    Still known to many as the Christopher St Pier, this is an 850ft-long finger of concrete, spiffily renovated with a grass lawn, flower beds, a comfort…

  • General Theological Seminary

    West Village, Chelsea & Meatpacking District

    Founded in 1817, this is the oldest sem­inary of the Episcopal Church in America. The school, which sits in the midst of the beautiful Chelsea historic…

  • Abingdon Square

    West Village, Chelsea & Meatpacking District

    This historical dot on the landscape (just a quarter-acre) is a lovely little patch of green, home to grassy knolls, beds of perennial flowers and winding…

  • Salmagundi Club

    West Village, Chelsea & Meatpacking District

    Far removed from the flashy Chelsea gallery scene, the Salmagundi Club features several gallery spaces focusing on representational American art set in a…

  • Artechouse

    West Village, Chelsea & Meatpacking District

    The previously unused boiler room beneath historic Chelsea Market has finally found a tenant in Artechouse, a technology-forward creative space where…

  • Andrea Rosen Gallery

    West Village, Chelsea & Meatpacking District

    Oversized installations are the norm at this spacious gallery, where curators fill every inch of space (and the annex, Gallery 2, next door) in…

  • David Zwirner

    West Village, Chelsea & Meatpacking District

    David Zwirner operates several galleries around Chelsea, including this five-story, sustainability-certified building with 30,000 sq ft of exhibition…

  • Paula Cooper Gallery

    West Village, Chelsea & Meatpacking District

    An icon of the art world, Paula was one of the first to move from SoHo to Chelsea in 1996 (she was also one of SoHo's pioneers, opening the first gallery…

  • Gladstone Gallery

    West Village, Chelsea & Meatpacking District

    Curator Barbara Gladstone has learned a thing or two after three decades in the Manhattan art world. Expect talked-about, well-critiqued exhibitions from…

  • White Columns

    West Village, Chelsea & Meatpacking District

    Geographically, White Columns is part of the Meatpacking District, but aesthetically speaking, it's in Chelsea. The sedate, multiroom space hosts a wide…

  • Matthew Marks Gallery

    West Village, Chelsea & Meatpacking District

    Founded in 1991, this gallery exhibits the work of American and European artists making use of many different media, from painting to printmaking to…

  • Sheridan Square

    West Village, Chelsea & Meatpacking District

    The shape of a triangle, Sheridan Sq isn't much more than a few park benches and some trees surrounded by an old-fashioned wrought-iron gate. But its…

  • Gagosian

    West Village, Chelsea & Meatpacking District

    International works dot the walls at the Gagosian. The ever-revolving exhibits feature the work of greats such as Jeff Koons, Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel…