Chelsea Market
Converted century-old bakery complex now housing dozens of food vendors, shops, and eateries.
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This guide to Chelsea Market in New York City starts with a rivalry between two cream-filled cookies and the Nabisco bakers who worked in this building in the early twentieth century. It follows the factory into decline after 1958 and the developer, Irwin Cohen, who took it on in the 1990s when the neighborhood was far rougher than today's food hall suggests. Start near the concourse, where the old brick and timber are easiest to see.
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