The West Village has tiny, well-known boutiques, while the Meatpacking District is home to designer havens.
The exhibition will be the centerpiece of Meatpacking District Design Week May 17-19, 2008.
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This restructuring is at its most dramatic in the meatpacking (slaughterhouse) and food-processing industries.
And the active Business Improvement Districts in developing places such as the meatpacking district have transformed those areas.
Click on the slideshow above to see more from the West Village, Chelsea and the Fashion- and Meatpacking Districts.
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Vintage paneling and an incredible marble-topped bar give this great, new meatpacking-district Belgian bistro a convincing atmosphere of venerability.
He negotiated a long-term lease on the low brick building, just when Manhattan's Meatpacking District was trading pork for prosciutto.
You know, taking the assembly line idea from the meatpacking and slaughterhouse industry and sticking it in his auto business.
But Tuesday evening at GQ's 50th-anniversary party at Cedar Lake, a club in Manhattan's popular Meatpacking District, West was surprisingly gracious.
This afternoon I walked around the Fashion District, the Meatpacking District and the West Village to survey the damage from Hurricane Sandy.
The shortage is being felt at meatpacking plants and large feedlots, where industry giants such as Cargill Inc. fatten cattle before slaughter.
The Panamera seems to overwhelm narrow lanes and rumbles through the cobblestones streets of the Meatpacking District, making it a bit of a standout.
Many say the change under Mr. Tierney began with the creation of the Gansevoort Market Historic District in the Meatpacking District which was created in 2003.
Bouncers at the nightclub Tenjune forbid guests from taking photos of other groups, said Eugene Remm, an owner of the club in the meatpacking district.
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Bike shop owner Dave Ortiz remembers when the city's Meatpacking District, now home to trendy restaurants, nightclubs and pricey boutiques, was the wild, wild West.
Many Hispanics work at the local meatpacking plant, the largest employer.
The sung-through musical premiered at New York City's Ars Nova in a seven-week run last year before finding a new 6, 000-square-foot space in the meatpacking district.
From 1934, its 13 miles of elevated track carried tonnes of carcasses and other produce to the factories and meatpacking warehouses that gave the district its name.
Perhaps my favorite image in that chapter, rather too solemnly titled "Collective Use, " concerns the crowded roof of the Standard New York hotel in the meatpacking district.
Lohan was arrested Nov. 29 on a charge of misdemeanor assault after an encounter with a woman at the club Avenue in the city's trendy Meatpacking District.
New York City has seen a spate of new hotel openings, mostly of the boutique variety and mostly in peripheral locations, from the Meatpacking District to Brooklyn.
Svanholm's replacement was Flemming Lindelov, recruited from the meatpacking industry.
Meatpacking companies have responded to international competition by shifting their operations from old industrial cities, with their heavily unionised workforces and restrictive practices, to rural areas and small towns.
The wave of development moving along the Bowery in the wake of Sanaa's New Museum with its offhand infusion of sophisticated Japanese design already contains the marks of Meatpacking-District gentrification.
Located within an austere former meatpacking store, the restaurant has a rough-hewn chic interior and a dramatic cylinder-shaped aquarium in the centre that doubles as a raw bar, with stools around its diameter.
This has not only led to the Latinisation of the meatpacking industry, but also to the Latinisation of heartland communities that have booming meatpacking plants, such as Garden City, Kansas.
Situated amid the industrial chic of a former meatpacking district, the restaurant serves up a one-page "American Bistro" menu where artisanal saucissons and hams comfortably sit alongside the Yankee staples of Ranch burgers and steaks.
The groups had been talking for months in hopes of coming to a united position on how to legally admit immigrants to fill jobs at hotel, janitorial, meatpacking and other companies that use low-skilled employees.
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Now it is time to make a choice: you could catch a cab south to TriBeCa and finish the night in a grown-up fashion or continue on to the West Village and Meatpacking District in search of your second wind.
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The HARDCORE exhibition is organized by Design Forum Finland, the Consulate General of Finland in New York and the Finnish Cultural Institute in New York, and presented in collaboration with the Meatpacking District Initiative and Abe NYC, Inc.
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