If you want to see Hudson Yards creeping north into old Hell’s Kitchen, don’t look for a dramatic “before and after” moment. Look at what’s happening around the West 30s and 10th Avenue — where a handful of recent deals are quietly reshaping a stretch of Manhattan.
Hudson Yards (left) is creeping north with recent real estate deals between W35th and W37th Streets. Photo: Melinda Caudill
For years, this pocket of the Far West Side has been a strange, in-between landscape: part warehouse-and-workday West Side, part Javits spillover, part parking lots waiting for their next act. You can pass an event space hosting Fashion Week one day, a loading dock the next — and, tucked into the mix, an occasional carriage-horse stable that feels like a leftover piece of a different New York.
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Publisher & Editor Phil O’Brien is an entrepreneur and journalist. As an international photojournalist, he photographed Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa, Princess Diana and many others. He built a successful international sports photography agency, EMPICS, that was Getty Images’ major competitor in Europe when it sold. He founded a children’s charity in the UK that has helped young people through sport for over 15 years. Phil has lived in New York since 2012. He founded W42ST in 2014.