Where it is: The boundaries of Hudson Heights are less precise than those of some other neighborhoods in NYC. The high-end buildings line the entrance to the Holland Tunnel along Varick and Broome streets and have distinctive facades and luxe amenities: 565 Broome Street designed by Renzo Piano Workshop 570 Broome Street designed by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill and 111 Varick Street designed by S9 Architecture. Looking to overcome that antipathy are a trio of brand-new buildings with 269 new units. Mitchell Moss, director of the Rudin Center for Transportation at New York University, previously told Brick: “No one in their right mind would live next to the Holland Tunnel. Both companies are developing millions of square feet of office space to accommodate thousands of employees over the next several years. Residential development is happening here too, although may be slower to gain traction than other areas, given its proximity to the Manhattan entrance to the Holland Tunnel. Formerly a largely industrial area, once home to many printing plants, it is now becoming a center for big name tech and media firms like Google and Disney. Nearest subways: A, C, and E at Spring Street, and the 1, and 2 at Houston or Canal.Īnother hotbed of development, but with a smaller footprint (measuring about five blocks by nine blocks) Hudson Square is to the south of Hudson Yards. Bordering neighborhoods are Greenwich Village to the north, Tribeca to the south and Soho to the east. Where it is: Hudson Square is bordered by Clark Street on the north, Canal Street on the south, Varick Street on the east, and the West Side Highway (or the Hudson River) to the west. In our survey of the most expensive neighborhoods in Manhattan, Hudson Yards nabbed the top spot, with a median sales price of $3,929,223. The massive project transformed the West Side Rail Yard into a gleaming complex including numerous luxury residential buildings, office space, and a high-end mall that one New York Times critic likened to a " gated condo community targeted at the 0.1 percent." Tourists flock to the Instagram-friendly Vessel walkable structure by Thomas Heatherwick at its core. The development project has been nearly 15 years in the making (depending on when you mark the beginning). Nearest subways: 7 at 34th Street Hudson Yards, A, C, E at 34th Street Penn Stationįresh, flashy, and spanning 28 acres, Hudson Yards is New York City’s newest neighborhood, officially opening to the public in March of 2019. It is bordered by Hell’s Kitchen to the north, Chelsea to the south, and Midtown to the east. Where it is: Rough boundaries are West 30th to 34th streets, between 10th and 12th avenues. Here’s the difference between Hudson Yards, Hudson Square, and Hudson Heights. So while these three neighborhoods do have a couple things in common, they are, of course, not the same. (Named, of course, for British explorer Henry Hudson, who sailed his ship up the waterway in the 1600s in search of the Northwest Passage.) (Brick Underground recently wrote where to live if you land a job offer at one of these companies and want a decent commute to one of the spanking new HQs.)Īll three Hudson neighborhoods are located on Manhattan’s far West Side (as far west as you can get), and take their name from their proximity to the Hudson River. Case in point: Hudson Yards, Hudson Square, and Hudson Heights, with the first two getting lots of buzz for the major development projects and major companies like Amazon and Facebook leasing space in Hudson Yards, and Google and Disney opening offices in Hudson Square. It's also challenging when neighborhoods have very similar names. (It doesn’t help that real estate brokers tend to invent new ones-or, more precisely, new names, for parts of the city that have long existed.) If you’re new to New York City, it can be hard to keep all of its neighborhoods straight.
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