Chelsea

Residential and commercial section of the West Side of Manhattan, New York City, USA, from 14th Street to about 30th Street.

It has had several distinct characters since it developed in the area of a 1750s village. In the 1840s railroads and Irish immigration made it an industrial area. In the 1880s it was a theatre district. Early movies were made c.1910 in old theatre buildings, and the neighbourhood became noted as bohemian, a character it retains to some extent today. The Chelsea Hotel, built 1884 on 23rd Street, is noted as a home to artists and writers. General Theological Seminary's campus is in Chelsea, and the novelist Edith Wharton was born here in 1862.