Meatpacking District

With Chelsea to the north and the West Village to the south, this incredibly fashionable – and tiny – 24-hour neighborhood is packed with artists and architects, super-chic hotels and restaurants, and the stylists to make them all look good. Faux-gritty Gansevoort Street runs right into the southern entrance to the High Line and the new Whitney Museum of American Art. Enough of the original meatpackers, cobblestones and old low-rise structures remain to give this dynamic area its unique and very trendy character.