Chelsea Market, New York City

The Chelsea Market, is located at 75 Ninth Avenue, between 15th to 16th Street, in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, New York. The building was once the factory of the National Biscuit Company, also known as Nabisco, where the original Oreo cookie was produced. It is now a dazzling high end food market, and it also offers lunchtime and dinner selections in its varied eateries for local residents, business people, and tourists. If you are in the area it is definitely a place to see!

The upper floors house many well know corporations such as The Oxygen Network, MLB.Com, EMI Music Publishing, and The Food Network, etc.

Click to enlarge the photo above to see some of the antique advertisement slogans that decorated a door near the market entrance.

This is one of the views of the ground floor market which retains the industrial look of the 1913 factory.

Click to enlarge the mosaic above to see a few of the market's various stores such as Amy's Bread, Eleni's Bakery and Fat Witch Bakery, Ruthy's Bakery (her fun cupcakes are in the middle photo), The Lobster Place, Imports From Marrakesh, and Buon Italia imports.

To see a map of the market and a complete list of vendors click here. Chelsea market is open Monday -Friday from 7am to 9pm, and Saturday -Sunday from 10am-8pm. Individual stores inside the market, however, may have different hours of operation.

This is one of my favorite things to buy in Chelsea market at Sarabeth's Kitchen -- her legendary and award winning spreadable fruit marmalade, jams, and relishes. They are very flavorful, and as close to home made as you could hope to buy.

Above Chelsea, passing through the Chelsea Market building on the 10th Avenue side, is a new urban landscape called the High Line. This once abandoned elevated railroad track has recently been converted into a popular greenway park, and in my next blog post I'll take you for a walk along it.

I'm linking my post today to Mary at The Little Red House blog's "Mosaic Monday" event. Please visit Mary today to see links to other participating blogs and their beautiful and interesting mosaics. Thanks, Mary, for hosting this enjoyable event every week!