#meatpacking-district

#meatpacking-district

Bottega Veneta has opened a new store at 58 Gansevoort Street in New York's Meatpacking District. The 312 square-meter interior occupies a ground-floor footprint within the low-rise fabric of the neighborhood, maintaining direct visual contact with the street through a restrained storefront and generous glazing. The plan reads as a sequence of open rooms rather than a single continuous floor. Sightlines extend from the entry toward the rear of the store, where shelving structures and freestanding furniture establish depth without enclosure.

When the late writer Mary Cantwell bought at 72 Horatio Street in the early 1980s, the neighborhood was still gentrifying, located on the edge of the Meatpacking District on a block she associated with what she called "the garbage pier," where the city unloaded its trash. Coming home late, she'd grip her keys and avoid eye contact with prostitutes, as she wrote in her 1995 memoir.

Hector's Cafe and Diner, a staple in the Meatpacking District for 76 years, will close on July 18 following changes in the neighborhood and a decline in business due to COVID.

The new public school in the Meatpacking District emphasizes a harmonious integration of food, architecture, learning, and movement, reflecting contemporary educational values.