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Do the businesses in Chelsea Market rely heavily on traffic from the office-workers above? Store-fronts in NYC tend to be pretty disconnected from the office/r
by saalweachter 9y ago
Do the businesses in Chelsea Market rely heavily on traffic from the office-workers above? Store-fronts in NYC tend to be pretty disconnected from the office/residential spaces above, with a few notable exceptions.
- oplav 9y agoI don't think so. I work upstairs at a non-Google company. Most of the time, the market floor is filled with non office workers. The lunch crowd might suffer a little bit since Google employees won't need to go down for meals.
- zohaibr 9y agoNo, they don't. They get a ton of tourist business especially because High Line is right there.
- aaavl2821 9y agoIt's a great place but so busy that id be loathe to drop in for a working lunch. That place and the Rockefeller center concourse are some of the rare places in the world where getting lunch can be more stressful than work
- zephraph 9y agoNot at all. It's always packed with tourists. Most of my coworkers and I go outside of CM to eat because it's pretty pricy.
- locopati 9y agoI worked in the building as it transitioned from how it was to how it is. The ground floor used to be mostly shops and over time became food oriented, with more restaurants and fancy treat places, as they aimed themselves towards the tourist industry, which crowds that place like mad.
- jowiar 9y agoLast time I went to Chelsea Market I got the feeling of "Nobody (local) goes here... there are too many tourists and the experience walking around here is miserable" Times Square-esque