A report on Meatpacking District, Manhattan, Greenwich Village and Whitney Museum

An old meatpacking building converted into a boutique

Before gentrification, many meatpacking buildings had become derelict

453–461 Sixth Avenue in the Historic District

The Whitney's original location, at 8–12 West 8th Street, between Fifth Avenue and MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village

The Herring Safe & Lock Company Building (1849) at the intersection of Ninth Avenue and Hudson Street at 14th Street

The intersection of West 4th and West 12th Streets

The Whitney Museum of American Art's former (1966–2014) home on Madison Avenue; the Marcel Breuer-designed building has seen numerous subsequent uses.

The Apple Store at 14th Street and Ninth Avenue

Street signs at intersection of West 10th and West 4th Streets

Entrance to the Whitney via the High Line

Hotel Gansevoort (right) and Pastis (left) on Ninth Avenue

Map of old Greenwich Village. A section of Bernard Ratzer's map of New York and its suburbs, made ca. 1766 for Henry Moore, royal governor of New York, when Greenwich was more than 2 miles (3 km) from the city.

The Whitney Museum, New York City in 2016: The building was designed by Renzo Piano.

Gay Street at the corner of Waverly Place; the street's name refers to a colonial family, not the LGBT character of Greenwich Village

Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney by Robert Henri (1916)

Gansevoort Street is almost perfectly aligned to the Spring equinox

Whitney Museum of American Art's original location, at 8–12 West 8th Street, between Fifth Avenue and MacDougal Street; currently home to the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture.

Banners from April 5, 2019, protest by Decolonize This Place at the Whitney Museum, New York NY, over board vice chair Warren Kanders' ownership of Safariland, a manufacturer of tear gas and other weapons

The Cherry Lane Theatre is located in Greenwich Village.

The annual Greenwich Village Halloween Parade is the world's largest Halloween parade.

Maurice Prendergast, Central Park, 1900, (1900)

The Stonewall Inn, a designated U.S. National Historic Landmark and National Monument, as the site of the June 1969 Stonewall riots and the cradle of the modern gay rights movement.

Oscar Florianus Bluemner, Old Canal Port, (1914)

The Washington Square Arch, an unofficial icon of Greenwich Village and nearby New York University

Thomas Hart Benton, House in Cubist Landscape, (c. 1915–1920)

396-397 West Street at West 10th Street is a former hotel which dates from 1904, and is part of the Weehawken Street Historic District

Washington Mews in Greenwich Village; an NYU building can be seen in the background

Edward Hopper, New York Interior, c. 1921

Christopher Park, part of the Stonewall National Monument

George Bellows, Dempsey and Firpo, (1924)

Jefferson Market Library, once a courthouse, now serves as a branch of the New York Public Library.

90 Bedford Street, used for establishing shot in Friends

The Whitney Museum of American Art, known informally as "The Whitney", is an art museum in the Meatpacking District and West Village neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City.

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Greenwich Village also contains several subsections, including the West Village west of Seventh Avenue and the Meatpacking District in the northwest corner of Greenwich Village.

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Before that it was the location of Fort Gansevoort and of the upper extension of Greenwich Village, which had been a vacation spot until overtaken by the northward movement of New York City.

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The Whitney Museum of American Art was founded in 1930; at this time architect Noel L. Miller was converting three row houses on West 8th Street in Greenwich Village—one of which, 8 West 8th Street had been the location of the Studio Club—to be the museum's home, as well as a residence for Whitney.

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Thirteen months earlier, the Whitney Museum of American Art had announced that it would build a second, Renzo Piano-designed home at 99 Gansevoort Street, just west of Washington Street and adjacent to the southernmost entrance to the High Line; and on May 1, 2015, the museum opened at this site.

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By the 1930s it had evolved into her greatest legacy, the Whitney Museum of American Art, on the site of today's New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture.

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A report on Meatpacking District, Manhattan, Greenwich Village and Whitney Museum

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