This building used to make Oreos. The National Biscuit Company — Nabisco — operated a factory complex here from the eighteen nineties until the nineteen fifties. The Oreo cookie was invented in this building in nineteen twelve.
The factory was converted into Chelsea Market in nineteen ninety-seven, and the industrial bones were deliberately left exposed — raw brick, iron beams, factory piping. The ground-floor concourse runs the full block between Ninth and Tenth Avenues, lined with food vendors, bakeries, and small shops. It sits directly beneath the High Line, and you can access the elevated park from the building's western side.
The market is one of the few food halls in New York that manages to serve both tourists and locals without completely alienating either. Los Tacos No. 1 has had a permanent queue since it opened. The lobster rolls at The Lobster Place are unreasonably good. And the building itself — with its exposed industrial infrastructure and a waterfall built into the concrete — is worth walking through even if you are not hungry.
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The Nabisco factory operated here from the 1890s to the 1950s; the Oreo cookie was invented in this building in 1912
Converted to Chelsea Market in 1997 with the factory's industrial infrastructure deliberately left exposed
The building sits directly beneath the High Line
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75 9th Ave, Manhattan, New York, 10011, United States
