Will the Meatpacking’s retail renaissance flourish or fade?
By Jeffrey Ditri, New York City Residential Rental Specialist
(JAD Realty Group, LLC.)
The neighborhood has become an outlier among Manhattan’s shopping districts, but whether that’s sustainable or replicable remains to be seen West 14th Street between Ninth and 10th Avenues On a recent spring day in the Meatpacking District, a group of tourists argued over dinner plans as they stepped off the High Line onto 14th Street, two girls walked into stalled traffic to Instagram the streetscape behind them and three neon-vested construction workers stood at the curb discussing the many visible changes in the neighborhood. This all took place in front of Jeffrey New York, the pioneering luxury clothing store that Jeffrey Kalinsky opened in 1999. “I didn’t have any money [at the time],” Kalinsky told The Real Deal,explaining why he chose this corner of Manhattan. It was also...
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