The long concourse of Chelsea Market, cut through the back lots of the old National Biscuit Company bakery where the Oreo was first made in 1912. Water pours from an old pipe into a basin by the Ninth Avenue door, the ducts and pipes run overhead under the iron beams, the stalls are busy and the clock keeps New York time, and at the far end the High Line crosses Tenth Avenue with people walking on it. The New Yorkers hang on the brick piers between the shopfronts.
Chelsea Market fills the block bounded by Ninth and Tenth Avenues and 15th and 16th Streets, the former National Biscuit Company factory, formed by a merger of bakeries in 1898, where the Oreo was first developed and produced early in 1912. Irwin Cohen redeveloped it in the 1990s with the architect Jeff Vandeberg, joining the old back lots into a ground floor concourse with entrances on Ninth and Tenth Avenues, finished in April 1997. The High Line passes through the Tenth Avenue side of the building, and in 2018 Alphabet bought the complex for more than 2.4 billion dollars.
Source · Chelsea Market, Wikipedia ↗
The long brick concourse from Ninth Avenue to Tenth, riveted iron beams and a timber deck overhead, exposed pipes and a galvanized duct, the waterfall pouring from an old iron pipe into its basin, pendant factory lamps, shopfronts with steel lintels and painted signs, the hanging double faced clock, the lunch crowd, and the High Line and Tenth Avenue through the far doors. Mood: brick, pipes and lunch. Everything is procedural geometry with painted surfaces; nothing is a scan or a photograph. The room is an interpretation, and it hangs the New Yorkers the census recorded at this place first.