Alta Linea
The only thing that could make strolling the reclaimed wilderness of Chelsea’s High Line better would be doing so with a refreshing cocktail in hand – now, thanks to Joe…
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Frying Pan
Walk just a few blocks west of Chelsea and the upper limits of the High Line. Keep walking, until you’ve reached the piers on the Hudson River. Keep walking. If…
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Terroir on the Porch
In high summer, the High Line is one of the best places to spend an afternoon suspended above the industrial grime of lower Chelsea. Add a glass of wine hand-chosen by…
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Gallow Green
For those who don't want to spring for Sleep No More tickets (or who've seen the masked, interactive Macbeth reinterpretation too many times already), Gallow Green—located on the rooftop of…
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Del Posto
This grand shrine to high-concept Italian cooking houses an equally, and unexpectedly, grand bar that executes all of the classics with subtle elegance. And while a four-star restaurant might not be the…
- story: Leslie Pariseau
Billymark’s West
Billymark's is owned by Billy and Mark, of course—a pair of Queens-born brothers—and sits on the oddly ungentrified corner of 9th Avenue and W. 28th Street. A sprawling room equipped with…
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Barchetta
While the restaurant is barely over six months old, David Pasternack's (of Esca fame) new, more casual Chelsea seafood restaurant has already established it as one of the exciting newcomers on…
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Le Bain
There are a few pleasures New Yorkers have come to accept they'll never have: lawn sprinklers, the ability to buy liquor in a grocery store and a spring season that…
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Peter McManus Cafe
Perhaps because it’s not as bewhiskered as the other bars on this list (founded only in 1936!), the Chelsea bar doesn’t get as much attention as some. But it’s a…
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