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.

If you want to join a walkthrough of the new Equinox coming to our block, let us know

The general manager of the new Equinox location opening up on 28th & 11th reached out to us and asked if we’d like to do a walkthrough (his name is Dominick—thanks Dominick!). We’ve posted about the new Equinox location here and here. We are currently targeting a walkthrough next Saturday (June 20) afternoon, but that can potentially be adjusted. Write us at highline28ba@gmail.com‍ ‍if you want to join.

Yes this just so happens to be the same general time that Manhattan Wine Company (see post right after this) does tastings…

If you stood at the entrance of the Ava High Line apartments 15 years ago and took a picture, this is what it would look like

15 years ago, if you stood essentially at the corner of 28th Street and 11th Avenue (north side) and took a picture, this is what you’d get. Notice Scores peaking out on the right and absolutely nothing on the left—Ava High Line and 507 West Chelsea don’t exist. A bit of It’s a Wonderful Life-vibes from this picture, imagining a world where the neighborhood as we know it didn’t happen. NYTimes article on what the landscape looked like back then here.

Hand of god

Apologies to Diego Maradona; this one is more important.

Germans on our block for the World Cup, hosting watch parties at Chelsea Industrial from June 12 to July 11!

The German Football Association is opening the “German House of Soccer” (appropriately American-named) to host World Cup-watch parties at Chelsea Industrial (the events space on 28th Street between 10th & 11th Aves). You can see the write-up here. We talked to the guys setting up outside, and while it sounds like the viewings will be focused on Germany matches (of course), they’ll also be hosting watch parties for other matches as well. Watch parties will be running from here June 12th through July 11th. We’ve reached out to the organizers to find out more information!

“The Black Mirror Experience” at The Shed from June 30 to September 8

If you haven’t been to The Shed in Hudson Yards yet, you’re missing out; it puts on some wild and weird shows in the best sense. From June 20 through September 8, The Shed is putting on an immersive attraction inspired by the NetFlix series Black Mirror. Groups of six walk through an exhibit characterized as follows: “LifeAgent, a humanoid robot built to streamline your life, anticipate your needs and help you become your ‘best self.’ Naturally, things don't stay perfect for long.”

Lovely. In the future, it is just robots all the way down, and I suppose the future is now just a few steps away. Tickets here.

World class and (quasi-hidden) recording studio on 27th Street between 10th & 11th draws some heavy hitters

Nestled right next to Hotel Alameda on 27th Street between 10th & 11th (you absolutely will miss it if you’re not looking for it) is a recording studio that draws some seriously heavy hitters. It is called Jungle City Studios, and if you’re a night owl and go regularly to that bodega on 10th Avenue between 28th & 29th Streets (as do certain authors of these posts), you very well may see the likes of Cardi B, Meek Mill, and Ariana Grade—all of whom have been spotted in the last two years in that very convenience store because they stopped over during recording.

Cool to have this on our block.

Sister block association organizing block clean-up for next Saturday, July 13 [CORRECTION: JUNE 13]

We have a sister block association that you can read about here. They are organizing their second block clean-up for next Saturday, July 13th, at 10am. Feel free to reach out to us or them if you want to join!