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101-555: The company operates two theaters in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City . There is the 199-seat mainstage Linda Gross Theater, which is located at 336 West 20th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues, in the parish hall of St. Peter's Episcopal Church , built in 1854 and renovated in 2012. Additionally, the 99-seat black-box theater , Stage 2, is located at 330 West 16th Street, also between Eighth and Ninth Avenues, in

202-476: A riot between Irish Catholics and Irish Protestants on July 12, 1871 , which took place around 24th Street and Eighth Avenue. The social problems of the area's workers provoked John Lovejoy Elliot to form the Hudson Guild in 1897, one of the first settlement houses  – private organizations designed to provide social services. A theater district had formed in the area by 1869, and soon West 23rd Street

303-463: A sound stage on 26th Street, has been operating since 1914, and numerous movies and television shows have been produced there. The Church of the Holy Apostles was built in 1845–1848 to a design by Minard Lefever , with additions by Lefever in 1853–1854, and transepts by Charles Babcock added in 1858, this Italianate church was designated a New York City landmark in 1966 and is listed on

404-516: A 750,000 sq ft (70,000 m ) retail center with two levels of restaurants, cafes, markets and bars, a hotel, a cultural space, about 5,000 residences, a 750-seat school, and 14 acres (5.7 ha) of public open space. The development, located mainly above and around the West Side Yard , will create a new neighborhood that overlaps with Chelsea and Hell's Kitchen. Hotel Chelsea , built 1883–1885 and designed by Hubert, Pirsson & Co.,

505-462: A center for cutting-edge theatrical and visual arts. Above 23rd Street, by the Hudson River , the neighborhood is post-industrial, featuring the elevated High Line viaduct, which follows the river all through Chelsea. The elevated rail line was the successor to the street-level freight line original built through Chelsea in 1847, which was the cause of numerous fatal accidents, so it was elevated in

606-524: A commentary on cultural and political issues; Three War Stories (2013), a trio of novellas about the physical and psychological effects of war; and Everywhere an Oink Oink: An Embittered, Dyspeptic, and Accurate Report of Forty Years in Hollywood (2023), an autobiographical account of his experiences in Hollywood. Mamet was born in 1947 in Chicago to Lenore June (née Silver), a teacher, and Bernard Morris Mamet,

707-550: A graphic novel The Trials of Roderick Spode (The Human Ant) . Mamet detailed his conversion from modern liberalism to "a reformed liberal" in The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture in 2011. Mamet published Three War Stories , a collection of novellas, in 2013 ; the novel The Diary of a Porn Star by Priscilla Wriston-Ranger: As Told to David Mamet With an Afterword by Mr. Mamet in 2019; and

808-597: A huge full-block freight terminal and warehouse on West 26th Street between Eleventh and Twelfth Avenues, was built in 1930–1931 as a joint venture of the Starett real estate firm and the Lehigh Valley Railroad . Designed by Cory & Cory to enable trains to pull into the ground floor of the building, it was one of only a few American buildings included in the Museum of Modern Art 's 1932 " International Style " exhibition. It

909-510: A labor attorney. He is Jewish . His paternal grandparents were Polish Jews . Mamet has said his parents were communists and described himself as a red diaper baby . One of his earliest jobs was as a busboy at Chicago's London House and The Second City . He also worked as an actor, editor for Oui magazine and as a cab-driver. He was educated at the progressive Francis W. Parker School and at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont . At

1010-460: A lamp fuel. In addition, the huge Manhattan Gas Works complex, which converted bituminous coal into gas , was located at Ninth Avenue and 18th Street. The industrialization of western Chelsea brought immigrant populations from many countries to work in the factories, including a large number of Irish immigrants, who dominated work on the Hudson River piers that lined the nearby waterfront and

1111-618: A notable collaboration with the Irish playwright Martin McDonagh , having premiered four of his plays in New York: Hangmen (2018), The Cripple of Inishmaan (2008), The Lieutenant of Inishmore (2006) and The Beauty Queen of Leenane (1998). The latter two transferred to Broadway. Other Mamet productions by Atlantic include his adaptation of Chekhov 's Three Sisters , and his own plays The Blue Hour , Yes, But So What? , Revenge of

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1212-409: A novel about the lynching of Leo Frank ; Five Cities of Refuge: Weekly Reflections on Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy (2004), a Torah commentary with Rabbi Lawrence Kushner ; The Wicked Son (2006), a study of Jewish self-hatred and antisemitism ; Bambi vs. Godzilla , a commentary on the movie business; The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture (2011),

1313-617: A philosophy and acting technique that grew out of a series of NYU summer workshops in Vermont in 1983 and 1984 with playwright David Mamet and actor William H. Macy . A number of theater companies have been formed by former students of Atlantic Acting School, including Pipeline Theatre Company, Bluebird Theatre Company, The Joust Theatre Company, Harvard Sailing Team , Crashbox Theatre Company, Cake Productions, 3rd Kulture Kids, Acorn Pictures, Aggrocrag, Lesser America, Foolish Gentlemen Films, and The Plinth. Chelsea, Manhattan Chelsea

1414-607: A population density of 82.4/acre (52,700/sq mi; 20,400/km ). The racial makeup of the neighborhood was 65.1% (45,661) White , 5.7% (4,017) African American , 0.1% (93) Native American , 11.8% (8,267) Asian , 0% (21) Pacific Islander , 0.4% (261) from other races , and 2.3% (1,587) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 14.6% (10,243) of the population. The entirety of Community District 4, which comprises Chelsea and Hell's Kitchen, had 122,119 inhabitants as of NYC Health 's 2018 Community Health Profile, with an average life expectancy of 83.1 years. This

1515-475: A restored historic Nabisco factory and headquarters, is a festival marketplace that hosts a variety of shopping and dining options, including bakeries, restaurants, a fish market, wine store, and many others. Peter McManus Cafe , a bar and restaurant on Seventh Avenue at 19th Street, is among the oldest family-owned and -operated bars in the city. The Empire Diner was an art moderne diner at 210 Tenth Avenue at 22nd Street that appeared in several movies and

1616-694: A swimming pool, solarium , gymnasium, and doormen dressed as London bobbies. It was designed by Farrar and Watmough. It takes its name from the fashionable mid-19th century cottages that were once located there. Penn South is a large limited-equity housing cooperative constructed in 1962 by the United Housing Foundation and financed by the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union . The development includes 2,820 apartments and covers six city blocks between 8th and 9th Avenue and 23rd and 29th Street . In 2012, there were 6,000 names on

1717-584: A waiting list of prospective residents looking to purchase a unit in the development. Under the terms of agreements reached with the City of New York in 1986 and 2002, and separately with the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development , Penn South's eligibility for tax abatements offered by the Mitchell-Lama Housing Program has been extended to 2052. The Chelsea Piers were

1818-534: Is a Reform Jew and strongly pro-Israel. In 2005, Mamet became a contributing blogger for The Huffington Post , drawing satirical cartoons with themes including political strife in Israel. In a 2008 essay at The Village Voice titled "Why I Am No Longer a 'Brain-Dead Liberal ' " he discussed how his political views had shifted from liberalism to conservatism . In interviews, Mamet has highlighted his agreement with free market theorists such as Friedrich Hayek ,

1919-450: Is a neighborhood on the West Side of the borough of Manhattan in New York City . The area's boundaries are roughly 14th Street to the south, the Hudson River and West Street to the west, and Sixth Avenue to the east, with its northern boundary variously described as near the upper 20s or 34th Street , the next major crosstown street to the north. To the northwest of Chelsea

2020-518: Is a producer and writer for television shows, such as The Unit and Law & Order . Mamet has contributed several dramas to BBC Radio through Jarvis & Ayres Productions, including an adaptation of Glengarry Glen Ross for BBC Radio 3 and new dramas for BBC Radio 4 . The comedy Keep Your Pantheon (or On the Whole I'd Rather Be in Mesopotamia) was aired in 2007. The Christopher Boy's Communion

2121-562: Is also the creator, producer and frequent writer of the television series The Unit , where he wrote a well-circulated memo to the writing staff. He directed a third-season episode of The Shield with Shawn Ryan . In 2007, Mamet directed two television commercials for Ford Motor Company . The two 30-second ads featured the Ford Edge and were filmed in Mamet's signature style of fast-paced dialogue and clear, simple imagery. Mamet's sister, Lynn ,

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2222-464: Is also the location of several restaurants and event venues that relate to the themes and stories told in the hotel, such as 'Speakeasy Magick', featuring Todd Robbins, Jason Suran, and Matthew Holtzclaw. New York Live Arts is a dance organization located at 219 West 19th Street between 7th and 8th Avenues. The Rubin Museum of Art is a museum dedicated to the collection, display, and preservation of

2323-812: Is an American playwright, filmmaker, and author. He won a Pulitzer Prize and received Tony nominations for his plays Glengarry Glen Ross (1984) and Speed-the-Plow (1988). He first gained critical acclaim for a trio of 1970s off-Broadway plays: The Duck Variations , Sexual Perversity in Chicago , and American Buffalo . His plays Race and The Penitent , respectively, opened on Broadway in 2009 and previewed off-Broadway in 2017. Feature films that Mamet both wrote and directed include House of Games (1987), Homicide (1991), The Spanish Prisoner (1997), and his biggest commercial success, Heist (2001). His screenwriting credits include The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981), The Verdict (1982), The Untouchables (1987), Hoffa (1992), Wag

2424-472: Is famous for having a large LGBTQ population , with one of Chelsea's census tracts reporting that 22% of its residents were gay couples, and is known for its social diversity and inclusion. Eighth Avenue is a center for LGBT-oriented shopping and dining, and from 16th to 22nd Streets between Ninth and Tenth Avenues, mid-nineteenth-century brick and brownstone townhouses are still occupied, a few even restored to single family use. The stores of Chelsea reflect

2525-839: Is higher than the median life expectancy of 81.2 for all New York City neighborhoods. Most inhabitants are adults: a plurality (45%) are between the ages of 25–44, while 26% are between 45 and 64, and 13% are 65 or older. The ratio of youth and college-aged residents was lower, at 9% and 8% respectively. As of 2017, the median household income in Community Districts 4 and 5 was $ 101,981. In 2018, an estimated 11% of Chelsea and Hell's Kitchen residents lived in poverty, compared to 14% in all of Manhattan and 20% in all of New York City. One in twenty residents (5%) were unemployed, compared to 7% in Manhattan and 9% in New York City. Rent burden, or

2626-608: Is in a 1941 movie house that closed in 1978. The Elgin was completely renovated to create in the Joyce a venue suitable for dance, and was reopened in 1982. The Kitchen is a performance space at 512 West 19th Street. It was founded in Greenwich Village in 1971 by Steina and Woody Vasulka , taking its name from the original location, the kitchen of the Mercer Arts Center . The warehouse building at 530 West 27th Street, which

2727-441: Is less than that of the city as a whole. The incarceration rate of 313 per 100,000 people is lower than that of the city as a whole. The 10th Precinct has a lower crime rate than in the 1990s, with crimes across all categories having decreased by 74.8% between 1990 and 2018. The precinct reported 1 murder, 19 rapes, 81 robberies, 103 felony assaults, 78 burglaries, 744 grand larcenies, and 26 grand larcenies auto in 2018. Chelsea

2828-410: Is primarily residential, with a mix of tenements , apartment blocks, two city housing projects , townhouses , and renovated rowhouses , but its many retail businesses reflect the ethnic and social diversity of the population. The area has a large LGBTQ population. Chelsea is also known as one of the centers of the city's art world , with over 200 galleries in the neighborhood. As of 2015, due to

2929-559: Is rather dubious." In the same interview, Mamet went on to say that "there are famous dramatists and novelists [in the UK] whose works are full of anti-Semitic filth." He refused to give examples because of British libel laws (the interview was conducted in New York City for the Financial Times ). He is known for his pro-Israel positions; in his book The Secret Knowledge he claimed that "Israelis would like to live in peace within their borders;

3030-479: Is served by two fire stations of the New York City Fire Department (FDNY). Engine Company 1/Ladder Company 24 is located at 142 West 31st Street, while Engine Company 3/Ladder Company 12/Battalion 7 is located at 146 West 19th Street. In addition, FDNY EMS Station 7 is located at 512 West 23rd Street. David Mamet David Alan Mamet ( / ˈ m æ m ɪ t / ; born November 30, 1947)

3131-411: Is still in development. When Mamet adapted his play for the 1992 film Glengarry Glen Ross , he wrote an additional part (including the monologue " Coffee's for closers ") for Alec Baldwin . Mamet continues to work with an informal repertory company for his films, including Crouse, William H. Macy , Joe Mantegna , and Rebecca Pidgeon , as well as the aforementioned school friends. Mamet rewrote

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3232-640: Is the neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen , as well as Hudson Yards ; to the northeast are the Garment District and the remainder of Midtown South ; to the east are NoMad and the Flatiron District ; to the southwest is the Meatpacking District ; and to the south and southeast are the West Village and the remainder of Greenwich Village . Chelsea was named for an estate in the area, which in turn

3333-616: Is the second and larger home of the LGBTQ -oriented synagogue, Congregation Beth Simchat Torah. The General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church 's college-like close is sometimes called "Chelsea Square". It consists of a city block of tree-shaded lawns between Ninth and Tenth Avenues and West 20th and 21st Streets. The campus is ringed by more than a dozen brick and brownstone buildings in Gothic Revival style. The oldest building on

3434-608: The Chicago Public Library Foundation 20th anniversary fundraiser in 2006, though, Mamet announced "My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library. I got what little educational foundation I got in the third-floor reading room, under the tutelage of a Coca-Cola sign". After a move to Chicago's North Side, Mamet met theater director Robert Sickinger , and began to work occasionally at Sickinger's Hull House Theatre . Thus began Mamet's lifelong involvement with

3535-546: The General Theological Seminary , which built its brownstone Gothic, tree-shaded campus south of the manor house. Despite his objections to the Commissioner's Plan of 1811 , which ran the new Ninth Avenue through the middle of his estate, Moore began the development of Chelsea with the help of James N. Wells , dividing it up into lots along Ninth Avenue and selling them to well-heeled New Yorkers. Covenants in

3636-571: The International Ladies Garment Workers' Union , and the New York City Housing Authority -built and -operated Fulton Houses and Chelsea-Elliot Houses . The 23-story Art Deco Walker Building, which spans the block between 17th and 18th Streets just off of Seventh Avenue , was built in the early 1930s. That structure was converted in 2012 to residential apartments on the top 16 floors, with Verizon retaining

3737-514: The National Register of Historic Places . It is Lefever's only surviving building in Manhattan. The building, which featured an octagonal spire, was burned in a serious fire in 1990, but stained glass windows by William Jay Bolton survived, and the church reopened in April 1994 after a major restoration. The Episcopal parish is notable for hosting the city's largest program to feed the poor, and

3838-721: The PEN/Laura Pels Theater Award for Grand Master of American Theater in 2010. In 2017, Mamet released an online class for writers entitled David Mamet teaches dramatic writing . In 2019 Mamet returned to the London West End with a new play, Bitter Wheat , at the Garrick Theatre , starring John Malkovich . In 2023 it was announced that a new Mamet play, titled Henry Johnson , was expected to debut in Los Angeles starring Shia LaBeouf . Mamet's first film work

3939-564: The University of Texas at Austin in 2007 and first opened for research in 2009. The growing collection consists mainly of manuscripts and related production materials for most of his plays, films, and other writings, but also includes his personal journals from 1966 to 2005. In 2015, the Ransom Center secured a second major addition to Mamet's papers, including more recent works. Additional materials relating to Mamet and his career can be found in

4040-496: The mixed martial arts movie Redbelt , about a martial arts instructor tricked into fighting in a professional bout. In On Directing Film , Mamet advocates for a method of storytelling based on Eisenstein's montage theory, stating that the story should be told through the juxtaposition of uninflected images. This method relies heavily on the cut between scenes, and Mamet urges directors to eliminate as much narration as possible. Mamet asserts that directors should focus on getting

4141-540: The 1960s and 1970s, as industries started to relocate from Manhattan. In subsequent years, the area's redevelopment was concentrated around West Chelsea, and some of the old industrial structures were converted to nightclubs. These included Les Mouches (housed in a former Otis Elevator Company factory) and the Tunnel (housed in the Central Stores building on 11th Avenue). Many LGBTQ people started moving to Chelsea in

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4242-426: The 1978 slaying of Nancy Spungen for which Sid Vicious was accused. The hotel has been the home of numerous celebrities, including Brendan Behan , Thomas Wolfe , Mark Twain , Tennessee Williams and Virgil Thomson , and the subject of books, films ( Chelsea Girls , 1966) and music. The London Terrace apartment complex on West 23rd was one of the world's largest apartment blocks when it opened in 1930, with

4343-464: The Arabs would like to kill them all." Mamet endorsed Republican Mitt Romney for president in 2012 , and wrote an article for The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles imploring fellow Jewish Americans to vote for Romney. In an essay for Newsweek , published on January 29, 2013, Mamet argued against gun control laws: "It was intended to guard us against this inevitable decay of government that

4444-542: The Chelsea-Elliot Houses, between 25th Street, Ninth Avenue, 28th Street, and Tenth Avenue; and Fulton Houses, between 16th Street, Ninth Avenue, 19th Street, and Tenth Avenue – the average income was less than $ 30,000. At the same time, the area's Puerto Rican enclaves and rent-subsidized housing, especially in Penn South , was being replaced by high-rent studios. This resulted in large income disparities across

4545-536: The Constitution was written. Its purpose was and is not to enthrone a Government superior to an imperfect and confused electorate, but to protect us from such a government." Mamet has described the NFL anthem protests as "absolutely fucking despicable". In a 2020 interview, he described Donald Trump as a "great president" and supported his re-election . After Trump lost the election, Mamet appeared to endorse claims that

4646-716: The Dog (1997), Ronin (1998), and Hannibal (2001). He received a second Academy Award nomination for Wag the Dog . In 1987, Mamet made his film directing debut with his screenplay House of Games , which won Best Screenplay awards at the 1987 Venice Film Festival and the Film of the Year in 1989 from the London Film Critics' Circle Awards . The film starred his then-wife, Lindsay Crouse , and many longtime stage associates and friends, including fellow Goddard College graduates. Mamet

4747-445: The Dog (1997), and Hannibal (2001). Mamet himself wrote the screenplay for the 1992 adaptation of Glengarry Glen Ross , and wrote and directed the 1994 adaptation of his play Oleanna (1992). He created and produced the CBS series The Unit (2006–2009). Mamet's books include: On Directing Film (1991), a commentary and dialogue about film-making; The Old Religion (1997),

4848-409: The New York City government classifies Chelsea as part of a larger neighborhood tabulation area called Hudson Yards-Chelsea-Flat Iron-Union Square. Based on data from the 2010 United States Census , the population of Hudson Yards-Chelsea-Flat Iron-Union Square was 70,150, a change of 14,311 (20.4%) from the 55,839 counted in 2000 . Covering an area of 851.67 acres (344.66 ha), the neighborhood had

4949-645: The Night by Rajiv Joseph , The Homecoming Queen by Ngozi Anyanwu , The Great Leap by Lauren Yee , and This Ain't No Disco with music and lyrics by Stephen Trask and Peter Yanowitz . The Atlantic Acting School operates as both a private conservatory and an undergraduate program in conjunction with the New York University Tisch School of the Arts . The school focuses on the Practical Aesthetics,

5050-451: The Palme d'Or at 1991 Cannes Film Festival and won a "Screenwriter of the Year" award for Mamet from the London Film Critics' Circle Awards ), Oleanna (1994), The Winslow Boy (1999), State and Main (2000), Spartan (2004), Redbelt (2008), and the 2013 bio-pic TV movie Phil Spector . A feature-length film, a thriller titled Blackbird , was intended for release in 2015, but

5151-490: The Ransom Center's collections of Robert De Niro , Mel Gussow , Tom Stoppard , Sam Shepard , Paul Schrader , Don DeLillo , and John Russell Brown. Mamet and actress Lindsay Crouse married in 1977 and divorced in 1990. The couple have two children. Mamet has been married to actress and singer-songwriter Rebecca Pidgeon since 1991, and they have two children. Mamet and Pidgeon live in Santa Monica, California . Mamet

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5252-566: The Sources (2000), and Chicago (2018). He has written several non-fiction texts, and children's stories, including True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor (1997). In 2004 he published a lauded version of the classical Faust story, Faustus , however, when the play was staged in San Francisco during the spring of 2004, it was not well received by critics. On May 1, 2010, Mamet released

5353-633: The Space Pandas , The Poet and the Rent , Vermont Sketches , Reunion , Sexual Perversity in Chicago , The Duck Variations , The Water Engine , Home , School , and Keep Your Pantheon . In February 2017, Mamet's play The Penitent started its previews leading to its premiere at the end of February. In other recent productions, Atlantic has produced On the Shore of the Wide World by Simon Stephens , Describe

5454-487: The area's gentrification , there is a widening income gap between the wealthy living in luxury buildings and some people living in the two housing projects ,. Chelsea is a part of Manhattan Community District 4 and Manhattan Community District 5 , and its primary ZIP Codes are 10001 and 10011. It is patrolled by the 10th Precinct of the New York City Police Department . Chelsea takes its name from

5555-578: The art galleries, Chelsea is home to the Rubin Museum of Art , with a focus on Himalayan art; the Graffiti Research Lab and New York Live Arts , a producing and presenting organization of dance and other movement-based arts. The community, in fact, is home to many highly regarded performance venues, among them the Joyce Theater , one of the city's premier modern dance emporiums, and The Kitchen ,

5656-680: The art of the Himalayas and surrounding regions, especially that of Tibet. It is located at 150 West 17th Street between the Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Avenue) and Seventh Avenue. Google 's New York office occupies 111 Eighth Avenue , which takes up the full city block between 15th and 16th Streets and between Eighth and Ninth Avenues. The building was once Inland Terminal 1 of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey . The Starrett-Lehigh Building ,

5757-570: The campus dates from 1836. Most of the rest were designed as a group by architect Charles Coolidge Haight , under the guidance of the Dean, Augustus Hoffman. Chelsea is patrolled by the 10th Precinct of the NYPD , located at 230 West 20th Street. The 10th Precinct ranked 61st safest out of 69 patrol areas for per-capita crime in 2010. As of 2018 , with a non-fatal assault rate of 34 per 100,000 people, Chelsea and Hell's Kitchen's rate of violent crimes per capita

5858-462: The cast, received mixed reviews. His play The Anarchist , starring Patti LuPone and Debra Winger , in her Broadway debut, opened on Broadway on November 13, 2012, in previews and was scheduled to close on December 16, 2012. His 2017 play The Penitent previewed off-Broadway on February 8, 2017. In 2002, Mamet was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame . Mamet later received

5959-470: The city's primary luxury ocean liner terminal from 1910 until 1935, when the growing size of ships made the complex inadequate. The RMS Titanic was headed to Pier 60 at the piers and the RMS Carpathia brought survivors to Pier 54 in the complex, which was destroyed in 2018 although ironwork remains. The northern piers are now part of an entertainment and sports complex operated by Roland W. Betts , and

6060-413: The days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, based solely on our ability to speak the language viciously. That's probably where my ability was honed." Mamet's plays have frequently sparked debate and controversy. Following a 1992 staging of Oleanna , a play in which a college student accuses her professor of trying to rape her, a critic reported that

6161-472: The deeds of sale specified what could be built on the land – stables, manufacturing and commercial uses were forbidden – as well as architectural details of the buildings. In 1829, Moore leased one of the lots to Hugh Walker who constructed what is now the oldest standing house in Chelsea , completed in 1830. The new neighborhood thrived for three decades, with many single family homes and rowhouses, in

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6262-638: The early 1930s by the New York Central Railroad . It fell out of use in the 1960s through 1980 and was originally slated to be torn down, but in the early 2000s, it was redesigned and converted into a highly used aerial greenway and rails-to-trails park. With a change in zoning resolution in conjunction with the development of the High Line, Chelsea experienced a new construction boom, with projects by notable architects such as Shigeru Ban , Neil Denari , Jean Nouvel , and Frank Gehry . The neighborhood

6363-558: The election had been illegitimate in his 2022 book Recessional: The Death of Free Speech and the Cost of a Free Lunch , though shortly after its publication, he said he "misspoke" on the subject. In 2022, Mamet made comments in support of Florida's Parental Rights in Education Act , called the "Don't Say Gay" bill by its critics, which restricts what public school teachers in Florida can discuss with children in kindergarten through third grade about sexual orientation and gender identity . In an interview with Fox News , Mamet claimed that

6464-446: The elevated West Side Freight Line and the West Side Elevated Highway were built in the 1930s, replacing a surface-level railroad and roadway. London Terrace was one of the world's largest apartment blocks when it opened in 1930, with a swimming pool, solarium , gymnasium, and doormen dressed as London bobbies. Other major housing complexes in the Chelsea area are Penn South , a 1962 cooperative housing development sponsored by

6565-462: The estate and Georgian-style house of retired British Major Thomas Clarke, who obtained the property when he bought the farm of Jacob Somerindyck on August 16, 1750. The land was bounded by what would become 21st and 24th Streets, from the Hudson River to Eighth Avenue. Clarke chose the name "Chelsea" after the Royal Hospital Chelsea in London. Clarke passed the estate on to his daughter, Charity, who, with her husband Benjamin Moore , added land on

6666-427: The ethnic and social diversity of the area's population. The Chelsea Lofts district – the former fur and flower district – is located roughly between Sixth and Seventh Avenues from 23rd to 30th streets. The McBurney YMCA on West 23rd Street, commemorated in the hit Village People song Y.M.C.A. , sold its home and relocated in 2002 to a new facility on 14th Street, the neighborhood's southern border. By

6767-629: The former Port Authority building. Stage 2, which opened in June 2006, is the home of Atlantic’s development program for new plays, which encompasses the commissioning of new works, readings, workshops, and fully staged productions. Since its inception, Atlantic has produced more than 200 plays, including the Tony Award winning productions of Spring Awakening , The Band's Visit and Kimberly Akimbo , David Mamet’s adaptation of The Voysey Inheritance by Harley Granville Barker , Mamet’s Romance , Joe Penhall ’s Blue/Orange , Dublin Carol by Conor McPherson , Woody Allen ’s Writer’s Block ,

6868-527: The historian Paul Johnson , and economist Thomas Sowell , whom Mamet called "one of our greatest minds". In 2022, Mamet declined to explicitly label himself a Republican , but described himself as a conservative who "would like to conserve those things I grew up with: the love of family, the love of the country, love of service, love of God, love of community". During promotion of a book, Mamet said British people had "a taint of anti-semitism ," claiming they "want to give [Israel] away to some people whose claim

6969-483: The late 1990s, New York's visual arts community began a gradual transition away from SoHo , due to increasing rents and competition from upscale retailers for the large and airy spaces that art galleries require, and the area of West Chelsea between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues and 16th and 28th Streets has become a new global centers of contemporary art, home to over 200 art galleries that are home to modern art from both upcoming and established artists. Along with

7070-422: The late 20th and early 21st centuries, Chelsea had become an alternative shopping destination, starring the likes of Barneys CO-OP — which replaced the much larger original Barneys flagship store — Comme des Garçons , Balenciaga boutiques, Alexander McQueen , Stella McCartney , and Christian Louboutin . Chelsea Market , on the ground floor of the former Nabisco Building, is a destination for food lovers. In

7171-518: The lead character Parker; alongside Nicolas Cage , J.K. Simmons , Giancarlo Esposito , and Andy Garcia . Mamet added that the film won't be "a travelogue", and will be inspired by Hunter's life, rather than serve as a biopic . Mamet published the essay collection Writing in Restaurants in 1986, followed by the poetry collection The Hero Pony in 1990. He has also published a series of short plays, monologues and four novels, The Village (1994), The Old Religion (1997), Wilson: A Consideration of

7272-824: The lower seven floors. In the early 1940s, tons of uranium for the Manhattan Project were stored in the Baker & Williams Warehouse at 513–519 West 20th Street. The uranium was removed and a decontamination project at the site was completed during the early 1990s. By the mid-20th century, the western part of Chelsea had various types of light manufacturing businesses. According to the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission , these ranged "from printing shops and box companies, to milk-bottling plants and electrical wire and cable manufacturers". The industrial character of West Chelsea declined in

7373-400: The mid-1980s, and upscale restaurants and stores began opening in the neighborhood around the same time. By then, the neighborhood also contained some of New York City's "cutting-edge theaters and performance spaces" according to The New York Times . By the late 1990s, West Chelsea had also begun to attract visual-arts galleries that had relocated from SoHo . On September 17, 2016, there

7474-528: The neighborhood; one block in particular – 25th Street between 9th and 10th Avenues – had the Elliot Houses on its north side and two million-dollar residences on its south side. The Chelsea neighborhood is served by two weekly newspapers: the Chelsea-Clinton News and Chelsea Now . West Chelsea refers to the western portion of Chelsea, previously known as Gasoline Alley, much of which

7575-548: The next year by James Fisk and Jay Gould , who renamed it the Grand Opera House . Located on the corner of Eighth Avenue and 23rd Street, it survived until 1960 as an RKO movie theater. The Irish Repertory Theatre is an Off-Broadway theatrical company on West 22nd Street producing plays by Irish and Irish-American writers. The Joyce Theater , located in the former Elgin Theater at 175 Eighth Avenue, near 19th Street,

7676-399: The percentage of residents who have difficulty paying their rent, is 41% in Chelsea and Hell's Kitchen, compared to the boroughwide and citywide rates of 45% and 51% respectively. Based on this calculation, as of 2018 , Chelsea and Hell's Kitchen are considered to be high-income relative to the rest of the city and not gentrifying . People of many different cultures live in Chelsea. Chelsea

7777-470: The play divided the audience by gender and recounted that "couples emerged screaming at each other". In his 2014 book David Mamet and Male Friendship , Arthur Holmberg examined Mamet's portrayal of male friendships, especially focusing on the contradictions and ambiguities of male bonding as dramatized in Mamet's plays and films. The papers of David Mamet were sold to the Harry Ransom Center at

7878-586: The point of a scene across, rather than simply following a protagonist, or adding visually beautiful or intriguing shots. Films should create order from disorder in search of the objective. In 2023, reports emerged that Mamet would direct and co-write a new film titled Assassination , his first film since 2008. The film will center around the Chicago Mob ordering the assassination of John F. Kennedy , and will star Viggo Mortensen , Shia LaBeouf , Courtney Love , Al Pacino , and John Travolta . The film's production

7979-592: The political commentary Recessional: The Death of Free Speech and the Cost of a Free Lunch in 2022. In 2023 Mamet recounted his experiences in Hollywood and the movie-making industry in Everywhere an Oink Oink: An Embittered, Dyspeptic, and Accurate Report of Forty Years in Hollywood. Mamet wrote one episode of Hill Street Blues , "A Wasted Weekend", that aired in 1987. His then-wife, Lindsay Crouse , appeared in numerous episodes (including that one) as Officer McBride. Mamet

8080-632: The process expanding past the original boundaries of Clarke's estate, but an industrial zone also began to develop along the Hudson. In 1847 the Hudson River Railroad laid its freight tracks up a right-of-way between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues , separating Chelsea from the Hudson River waterfront. By the time of the Civil War , the area west of Ninth Avenue and below 20th Street was the location of numerous distilleries making turpentine and camphene ,

8181-904: The revival of Hobson's Choice , the revivals of Mamet's American Buffalo , The Woods , and Edmond , Dangerous Corner by J. B. Priestley , The Cider House Rules , adapted by Peter Parnell , Celebration , The Room and The Hothouse by Harold Pinter , Mojo by Jez Butterworth , the New York premieres of Howard Korder ’s Boys’ Life and The Lights at Lincoln Center Theater , Kevin Heelan’s Distant Fires , Quincy Long’s The Joy of Going Somewhere Definite and Shaker Heights , Tom Donaghy ’s Minutes From The Blue Route , Edwin Sánchez’ Trafficking in Broken Hearts , and Missing Persons by Craig Lucas . Atlantic has also had

8282-488: The script for Ronin under the pseudonym "Richard Weisz" and turned in an early version of a script for Malcolm X which was rejected by director Spike Lee . Mamet also wrote an unproduced biopic script about Roscoe Arbuckle with Chris Farley intended to portray him. In 2000, Mamet directed a film version of Catastrophe , a one-act play by Samuel Beckett featuring Harold Pinter and John Gielgud (in his final screen performance). In 2008, he wrote and directed

8383-528: The south of the estate, extending it to 19th Street. The house was the birthplace of their son, Clement Clarke Moore , who in turn inherited the property. Moore is generally credited with writing " A Visit From St. Nicholas " and was the author of the first Greek and Hebrew lexicons printed in the United States. In 1827, Moore gave the land of his apple orchard to the Episcopal Diocese of New York for

8484-495: The southern piers are part of Hudson River Park . The Hudson River Park, designed as a joint city/state park with non-traditional uses, runs along the Hudson River waterfront from 59th Street to the Battery and comprises most of the associated piers. Chelsea Park is located between 9th and 10th Avenues, and between 27th and 28th Streets. It contains baseball diamonds, basketball courts and six handball courts. Chelsea Studios ,

8585-649: The theater. Mamet is a founding member of the Atlantic Theater Company ; he first gained acclaim for a trio of off-Broadway plays in 1976, The Duck Variations , Sexual Perversity in Chicago , and American Buffalo . He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1984 for Glengarry Glen Ross , which received its first Broadway revival in the summer of 2005. His play Race , which opened on Broadway on December 6, 2009, and featured James Spader , David Alan Grier , Kerry Washington , and Richard Thomas in

8686-466: The truck terminals integrated with the freight railroad spur. As well as the piers, warehouses and factories, the industrial area west of Tenth Avenue also included lumberyards and breweries, and tenements built to house the workers. With the immigrant population came the political domination of the neighborhood by the Tammany Hall machine , as well as festering ethnic tensions: around 67 people died in

8787-499: The western part of Chelsea by the late 19th century. The first of these was the Central Stores, constructed at 11th Avenue between 27th and 28th Streets in 1891. This was followed in 1900 by the Lehigh Valley Railroad 's terminal between 26th and 27th Streets, as well as the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad 's terminal immediately to the south, completed in the early 1910s. Freight operations on Manhattan's far west side were improved when

8888-485: Was an explosion outside a building on 23rd Street, which injured 29 people; police located and removed a second, undetonated pressure cooker bomb on 27th Street. A suspect, Ahmad Khan Rahami , was captured two days later after a gunfight in Linden, New Jersey . By the late 2010s, the eastern part of Chelsea, which had once been largely industrial, had also attracted upscale residential development. For census purposes,

8989-426: Was New York's first cooperative apartment complex and was the tallest building in the city until 1902. After the theater district migrated uptown and the neighborhood became commercialized, the residential building folded and in 1905 it was turned into a hotel. The hotel attracted attention as the place where Dylan Thomas had been staying when he died in 1953 at St. Vincent's Hospital in Greenwich Village , and for

9090-456: Was an early center for the motion picture industry before World War I. Some of Mary Pickford 's first pictures were made on the top floors of an armory building at 221 West 26th Street , while other studios were located on 23rd and 21st Streets. To accommodate high freight and industrial demand, several railroads had built rail freight terminals on the Manhattan side of the Hudson River, and many freight terminals and warehouses were built in

9191-418: Was another Jarvis & Ayres production, first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on March 8, 2021. Mamet's style of writing dialogue, marked by a cynical, street-smart edge, has come to be called Mamet speak. Mamet himself has criticized his (and other writers') tendency to write "pretty" at the expense of sound, logical plots. When asked how he developed his style for writing dialogue, Mamet said, "In my family, in

9292-492: Was as a screenwriter, later directing his own scripts. According to Joe Mantegna , Mamet worked as a script doctor for the 1978 film Towing . Mamet's first produced screenplay was the 1981 production of The Postman Always Rings Twice , based on James M. Cain 's novel. He received an Academy Award nomination one year later for the 1982 legal drama, The Verdict . He also wrote the screenplays for The Untouchables (1987), Hoffa (1992), The Edge (1997), Wag

9393-688: Was designated a New York City landmark in 1966. The Hudson Yards rail-yard development is located at the northern edge of Chelsea, within the Hudson Yards neighborhood . The project's centerpiece is a mixed-use real estate development by Related Companies . According to its master plan, created by master planner Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates , Hudson Yards is expected to consist of 16 skyscrapers containing more than 1.27 × 10 ^  sq ft (118,000 m ) of new office, residential, and retail space. Among its components will be 6 × 10 ^  sq ft (560,000 m ) of commercial office space,

9494-571: Was mentioned in Billy Joel 's song "Great Wall of China". Designed by Fodero Dining Car Company , it was built in 1946 andwas altered in 1979 by Carl Laanes. The diner closed on May 15, 2010; reopened briefly as "The Highliner", and again re-opened under its original name in January 2014 before closing permanently in December 2015 due to failure to pay rent. Pike's Opera House was built in 1868, and bought

9595-631: Was named for the Royal Hospital Chelsea in London. Chelsea contains the Chelsea Historic District and its extension, which were designated by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1970 and 1981 respectively. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977, and expanded in 1982 to include contiguous blocks containing particularly significant examples of period architecture. The neighborhood

9696-603: Was previously a manufacturing area and has since been rezoned to allow for high-rise residential uses. It is often considered the area of Chelsea between the Hudson River to the west and Tenth Avenue to the east, a portion of which was designated a historic district in 2008. A 2008 article in The New York Times showed the eastern boundary of West Chelsea as Eighth Avenue for the area between 14th and 23rd streets, Ninth Avenue between 23rd and 25th, and Tenth Avenue between 25th and 29th. The Chelsea Market , located in

9797-409: Was quickly gentrifying, with small businesses being replaced by big-box retailers and technology and fashion stores. With this development, more wealthy residents moved in, further widening an already-existing income gap with public-housing residents. In 2015, the average yearly household income in most of Chelsea was about $ 140,000. On the other hand, in the area's two public-housing developments –

9898-458: Was quoted as saying, "It was my first film as a director and I needed support, so I stacked the deck." After House of Games , Mamet later wrote and directed two more films focusing on the world of con artists, The Spanish Prisoner (1997) and Heist (2001). Among those films, Heist enjoyed the biggest commercial success. Other films that Mamet both wrote and directed include: Things Change (1988), Homicide (1991) (nominated for

9999-478: Was scheduled to start in September 2023. In October, Barry Levinson took over as the film's director, while Mamet remained as the screenwriter. In March 2024, Mamet stated that he is currently writing a screenplay centering about Hunter Biden , the second son of U.S. President Joe Biden . In June, Deadline reported that the film, titled The Prince , will directed by Cameron Van Hoy and star Scott Haze as

10100-589: Was the center of American theater, led by Pike's Opera House (1868, demolished 1960), on the northwest corner of Eighth Avenue. Chelsea was a busy entertainment district between about 1875 and 1900. Sixth Avenue contained the Ladies' Mile shopping district; music publishers opened offices in Tin Pan Alley along 28th Street; and the Tenderloin red-light district occupied the northern section of Chelsea. The neighborhood

10201-486: Was the site of The Sound Factory & Twilo , as well as several other megaclubs in the 1980s and 1990s, was acquired in 2011 by the British theater company Punchdrunk , who converted it into "The McKittrick Hotel", a five-story, 100,000 sq ft (9,300 m ) performance space housing their immersive site-specific theatrical production, Sleep No More . The building, along with those at 532 and 542 West 27th Street,

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