Save Chelsea has issued an analysis of the threat to Chelsea's historic character from NYCHA's plan for the Fulton and Elliott Chelsea Houses

In response to the Empire Station Complex plan by the Empire State Development Corp., Save Chelsea has been an active participant in forums to explain its effects to the public. On August 19, 2022 Save Chelsea trustees attended a special listening session with Rep. Carolyn Maloney to address the plan's impacts on the neighborhood.

Learn more about Chelsea's Landmarked Buildings

Download to read the Historic District Council’s newly published Six to Celebrate brochure, “A Guide to Historic New York”. The brochure includes a brief history of Chelsea and illustrated descriptions of nineteen historic sites from full-block giants like London Terrace and the Starrett-Lehigh Building to tiny treasures like the Empire Diner and West 18th Street stables. A map is also included.

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Save Chelsea to Erik Bottcher: Stop Supporting NYCHA’s ‘Indefensible’ Plan for Chelsea

August 8, 2025 / TO: City Council Member Erik Bottcher

Dear City Council Member Bottcher:

Save Chelsea strongly opposes NYCHA’s plan for the Fulton and Elliott-Chelsea Houses (FEC). Its midtown-like density and grotesquely out-of-scale towers would be ruinous for Chelsea’s character, and environmentally disastrous. It is extraordinarily unpopular for good reason. We implore you to end your support for the plan and join us in fighting it. NYCHA is using Chelsea as a proving ground for a rightly controversial new redevelopment model. It won’t be auspicious if the agency is seen to defy its own residents, the wider community, and elected officials. Changing your position could make all the difference.

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