Is Chelsea a prestigious neighborhood?

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

Prestigious as in snobby and expensive or just expensive? It’s not snobby but it is expensive.

[Anonymous]

No it is an up and coming shit hole
have you never been there?
the Chelsea hotel used to house one-armed drug addicts who hung out in the lobby
and the streets outside were the same

West side only gets fancy briefly - very far North, Morningside Drive.

[Anonymous]

Chelsea is fully gentrified and very expensive. Mostly middle aged gay men. Don’t listen to PP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Chelsea is fully gentrified and very expensive. Mostly middle aged gay men. Don’t listen to PP.

I think you're stuck in 1998 and the previous poster is stuck in 1978.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Chelsea is fully gentrified and very expensive. Mostly middle aged gay men. Don’t listen to PP.

I think you're stuck in 1998 and the previous poster is stuck in 1978.

Nope, all my old gay friends live there. My young gay friends live in Hell's Kitchen.

[Anonymous]

My gay friends live all over the city

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Chelsea is fully gentrified and very expensive. Mostly middle aged gay men. Don’t listen to PP.

I think you're stuck in 1998 and the previous poster is stuck in 1978.

PP who said Chelsea Hotel was a shit hole. I stayed in NY all through the 90s, 2000's right up til 2019. Still a shit hole.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Chelsea is fully gentrified and very expensive. Mostly middle aged gay men. Don’t listen to PP.

I think you're stuck in 1998 and the previous poster is stuck in 1978.

Nope, all my old gay friends live there. My young gay friends live in Hell's Kitchen.

pretty much. old gays still in the west village, middle-aged gays in chelsea, young gays in hells kitchen

[Anonymous]

No not “prestigious.”

[Anonymous]

OP, what exactly do you want to know? You've started two threads that are as general as can be.

[Anonymous]

Well, fwiw, I know numerous people in Chelsea and they are all either gay men or straight 20-something women from my office who tell me that all their neighbors are gay men. So I think the stereotype holds up.

I have friends who bought a 1 bedroom in Chelsea two years ago. I think it was a great investment. It's a nice, safe neighborhood that's convenient to a lot of places and still has some character.

I feel like the OP is asking these questions because they desperately want a tony NYC address but can't afford UES or Soho and are trying to figure out the next best thing. Like they are trying to crack some code. OP -- there is no code. Manhattan is pricy and real estate is a bear. Anyone who cares where you live will never be impressed by it, and the people who are impressed by it probably aren't worth impressing.