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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. Florent (restaurant) - Wikipedia

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    Florent was an all-night diner in the Meatpacking District of Manhattan that opened in 1985 and closed in 2008. History [ edit ] Florent was located at 69 Gansevoort Street , one of the few remaining cobblestone streets in New York City . [3]

  6. 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.

  7. The Standard, High Line - Wikipedia

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    The Standard, High Line, formerly The Standard, is an 18-story luxury boutique hotel located at 848 Washington Street between West 13th and Little West 12th Streets in the Meatpacking District of Manhattan, New York City. It stands 57 feet (17 m) above street level, above the High Line, a former elevated railroad track reconstructed into a ...

  8. 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.

  9. Chelsea Market - Wikipedia

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    07000487 [1] Added to NRHP. May 30, 2007. Chelsea Market is a food hall, [2] shopping mall, office building and television production facility located in the Chelsea neighborhood of the borough of Manhattan, in New York City. The Chelsea Market complex occupies an entire city block with a connecting bridge over Tenth Avenue to the adjacent 85 ...