Empty lot on 29th Street between 10th & 11th sold for $33.5m to residential real estate developer

We see construction activity at the empty lot on 29th Street between 10th & 11th. Once upon a time (2024), this lot was slated for development by a hospitality group called PPHE, and the idea was to build an “art-inspired mixed used hotel and condominium building.” That stalled for years, and in March 2026, real estate papers announced that PPHE had sold the property to a luxury residential real estate developer called T&E. T&E has developed other residential buildings like The Florian in Gramercy and Fifty One Domino in Williamsburg, and you can use those projects as data points for what their project in our neighborhood is likely to look like.

We’ve reached out to T&E to get more details on timeline, plans, etc. and will keep the block updated.

Local newsletters are the new matchmakers?

People are out there, not too far away, just like you. Curious article in The Atlantic about how local newsletters are “playing cupid with their like-minded readers.” Snippet from the article below, available in full here:

In their way, newsletter personals have the potential to delight and influence all sorts of readers, even those not participating in the experiment directly. For one, they provide entertainment (“I own four mullet wigs. So I hope you don’t hate 80s rock,” an ad in The Eastside Rag read) and useful conversation starters (I love July’s “How important is cuddling to you?”). But they also offer heartening evidence, to anyone eavesdropping, that people are out there, not too far away, looking for someone who might be—to quote Mister Rogers, that great philosopher of love and community—just like you.

We’re still waiting on our first “missed connection” or personal ad from one of our members. Don’t be shy, neighbors; fortune (and love?) favors the bold.

Soccer pop-up at High Line Nine (the art galleries right next to Sogno Toscano on 28th Street) for the next month

There is a cool [football] pop-up in High Line Nine from June 22 through July 19, 2026, from 9am - 8pm each day. Here’s an Instagram about it. It showcases match-worn jerseys, shoes, and other football artifacts that “changed history.” Think Pele, Ronaldinho, and Messi World Cup jerseys. Tickets here.

LGBTQ+ kink and fetish street fair today on 27th between 11th & 12th

This is a fun one—NYC’s premier leather, fetish, and kink festival is taking place today (Sunday) from 11am-6pm on our block. Looks like it’s about to be a serious party. Tickets here: https://www.folsomstreeteast.com

“I Shot Andy Warhol” (as restored in high-def) is now playing at IFC

The founding father of pop art is part of the fabric of this neighborhood (and of course on the Mount Rushmore of art right above Empire Diner: www.hgcontemporary.com/news/kobra-paints-mural-for-hg-contemporary)—and so it’s only natural that we tell you about the fancy 4K restoration of “I Shot Andy Warhol” playing at IFC Theater at least through July.

Chronicling a radical named Valerie Solanas that tried to assassinate Andy Warhol in the 1960s—and in fact shot him three times—the film made waves 30 years ago when it debuted at Cannes for platforming some let’s say alternative views. Solanas believed that Y chromosomes made a certain half of the human species fundamentally inferior, and when asked by police why she shot Warhol, replied only that she “had a lot of very involved reasons.” Write-up here: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jun/10/i-shot-andy-warhol-mary-harron-director-interview-valerie-solanas-lili-taylor

If you’ve never been, the IFC Theater in Greenwich Village is something you must absolutely experience in New York. Trust us on this. Tickets here: https://www.ifccenter.com/films/i-shot-andy-warhol/

Martha Stewart and Heated Rivalry guy on the block last week for swanky Dom Perignon party

So that Dom Perignon ad blasting out from a U-Haul truck last week on the wall on 28th and 10th? That was for a fancy party with Martha Stewart and Heated Rivalry guy in attendance. Dom Perignon put on the event, called “Expressions of Harmony,” which debuted three new Dom vintages. The event was hosted at High Line Nine (the art galleries/event space right next to Sogno Toscano on 28th Street). Here’s another write-up of the event with pictures of various good-looking people.

We emailed the President of Kagency, which is the talent booking agency that runs events out of High Line Nine. Will keep the block updated on their future plans and parties.

Brazilians out in full force in Hudson Yards this last Saturday night

The world’s most celebratory football fans (apologies, every other country) have officially arrived on our block for the Brazil/Haiti World Cup group stage game, showing on Saturday night on the big screen in Hudson Yards.

Chalamet’s riding around our block again on a Citi bike, this time with Kylie Jenner in tow

Guess who’s back, guess who’s back, guess who’s back, guess who’s back. Our last post on Chalamet literally just riding a Citi bike around our block is the most viewed page on the entire site (I’m not kidding), and block paparazzi Bailey Roach is back at it again with another banger—this time it is T. Chalamet with the very added bonus of Kylie Jenner.

Yes, that really is Hudson Market in the background of the first two pictures and Chelsea Park (with the banners we posted about immediately prior to this) in the latter two. This is what this block association is all about guys.

Photography exhibition called “Photoville” showing on huge banners on the side of Chelsea Park

Have you noticed those photo banners on the fence of Chelsea Park? Me too. So, what is Photoville?  

Photoville is a photography festival happening in New York city this summer. You can read more about it here, on the festival's website. In the words of Photoville themselves:

“Photoville amplifies visual storytellers and connects them to a worldwide diverse audience through its free photo festival and year-round activation of public spaces and educational community programming.”

Founded in 2011, the festival has banners in all five boroughs of NYC. Photoville aims to bring the community together through creativity and empathy, using photography to foster a mutual understanding of one another. Photoville has competitions and exhibitions throughout the year. Artists and art appreciators alike enjoy Photoville and what it has to offer. What a beautiful way to bring the community together.

The photos on display in Chelsea are part of an exhibition called The Wild Within. Artists Ryan Koopman and Alice Wexell reimagine abandoned architecture, filling it with a vibrance of lush greenery. As a duo, they are best known for this exhibition, its vibrance, motion, and liveliness. 

If you stand on 29th Street near Kahlo and look up at the apartments across the street and see a glimmer on the ceiling, you are looking at somebody’s private pool

This weekend you should head over to Kahlo, an incredible restaurant on our block. Before you walk in, turn around and look back across the street at the apartments on the other side of 29th Street (the swanky Soori High Line). When you see a glimmer on the ceilings, know that you are looking at somebody’s private pool. Fancy.

Ballet inside a light installation on 27th Street, at the former ‘Sleep No More’ entrance

“Six dancers move in silhouette through shifting planes of projected light.” That’s how to understand an immersive luminescent ballet experience showing from June 4 to June 28 at The McKittrick Hotel/Sleep No More entrance on 27th Street between 10th & 11th. Has a trippy and almost meditative vibe. Very cool.

Manhattan Wine Company on 28th Street does tastings every Saturday afternoon

Manhattan Wine Company moved directly onto our block on 28th between 10th & 11th about a year and a half ago (they were previously around the corner). This place has a great selection and you should absolutely stop in and talk to Kim and Miles about what they have, but the added bonus here is that they do wine tastings at the table shown in the picture every Saturday from 2-5pm. Stop randomly in during this time and you’ll get the full experience; they are very casual, approachable, and it is not weird to go either solo or with a partner. They also do in-person classes and events like dinners.

Exactly the type of place we love to see on the block.