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  2. Meatpacking District, Manhattan - Wikipedia

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    The Meatpacking District is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan that runs from West 14th Street south to Gansevoort Street, and from the Hudson River east to Hudson Street. [2] [3] [4] The Meatpacking Business Improvement District along with signage in the area, extend these borders farther north to West 17th Street , east ...

  3. Union Stock Yards - Wikipedia

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    The Union Stock Yard & Transit Co., or The Yards, was the meatpacking district in Chicago for more than a century, starting in 1865. The district was operated by a group of railroad companies that acquired marshland and turned it into a centralized processing area. By the 1890s, the railroad capital behind the Union Stockyards was Vanderbilt ...

  4. Kødbyen - Wikipedia

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    Kødbyen ( lit. 'the meat-town'; also known as the Meat District or Meatpacking District, after the New York Meatpacking District) is a district of Vesterbro in Copenhagen, Denmark. It is situated between the railway lines going into Copenhagen Central Station and Sønder Boulevard. The district consists of three separate areas, referred to as ...

  5. High Line - Wikipedia

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    Website. www.thehighline.org. The High Line is a 1.45-mile-long (2.33 km) elevated linear park, greenway, and rail trail created on a former New York Central Railroad spur on the west side of Manhattan in New York City. The High Line's design is a collaboration between James Corner Field Operations, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, and Piet Oudolf.

  6. Meat-packing industry - Wikipedia

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    The William Davies Company facilities in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, circa 1920. This facility was then the third largest hog-packing plant in North America. The meat-packing industry (also spelled meatpacking industry or meat packing industry) handles the slaughtering, processing, packaging, and distribution of meat from animals such as cattle, pigs, sheep and other livestock.

  7. List of Manhattan neighborhoods - Wikipedia

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    Name of the neighborhood Limits south to north and east to west Upper Manhattan: Above 96th Street Marble Hill: The neighborhood is located across the Harlem River from Manhattan Island and has been connected to The Bronx and the rest of the North American mainland since 1914, when the former course of the Spuyten Duyvil Creek was filled in.

  8. Maritime Hotel - Wikipedia

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    Maritime Hotel. The Maritime Hotel is a luxury boutique hotel located at 363 West 16th Street at Ninth Avenue in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, close to the Meatpacking District. It has 121 rooms and 5 suites, all decorated in a nautical theme, in line with the building's maritime history, and the porthole-inspired facade.

  9. Category:Meatpacking District, Manhattan - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Meatpacking District, Manhattan" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...