Chapter Two: 14th -- 16th Streets
The Chelsea Market is described:
"The complex of twenty-two buildings that makes up
the Chelsea Market was begun in the 1890s and completed in 1913 by National
Biscuit Company."
"Known today as Nabisco, this was the first of West
Chelsea's start-up industries to became a major national corporation."
"The most prominent building -- an eleven-story
structure connected to the High Line by a spur that sits below an enclosed
pedestrian bridge -- was erected on landfill that included the anchor, chain,
and timbers of a two-masted schooner wreck found during excavation."
"An 1892 New York City guidebook notes there were
forty ovens on site 'of a capacity sufficient to convert 1,000 barrels of flour
into biscuits of various sorts, every day.'"
High Line book review continues tomorrow, October 22
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