Avenues, Lofts & Food Halls
Shopping & Markets
Fifth Avenue and the SoHo cast-iron district, Chelsea Market and Smorgasburg, and the department stores that invented the format.
4 places49th to 60th Street
Fifth Avenue
The eleven blocks between Rockefeller Center and Central Park hold the most expensive retail rents in the world. Window shopping is free and the windows are the point.
Meatpacking District
Chelsea Market
The factory where the Oreo was invented, turned into a food hall on the ground floor and Google's New York offices upstairs.
34th Street
Macy's Herald Square
A million square feet of department store with wooden escalators from 1902 still running on the upper floors. Free to ride, and almost nobody does.
Broadway to West Broadway
SoHo Cast-Iron District
The largest collection of cast-iron architecture in the world, saved from a motorway by Jane Jacobs, filled with artists, and now filled with shops.