Home Values · Manhattan · Chelsea, NY
What's your home worth in Chelsea?
The median home in Chelsea sold for $1,800,000 — condo prices ▲ 3.6% over the past year.
Based on recorded residential sales over the last 12 months (all home types). Source: ATTOM public property records · updated quarterly · as of July 2026.
About the neighborhood
Townhouses, galleries, and the High Line
Chelsea's street grid traces to Captain Thomas Clarke's 18th-century estate, named for London's Royal Hospital Chelsea, and his descendant Clement Clarke Moore helped shape what followed. Greek Revival and Italianate townhouses with stoops and ironwork still line the leafy cross streets, while redbrick warehouses from the industrial era now hold lofts and galleries and contemporary towers rise along the Hudson. The High Line, a park built atop an old elevated railway, threads through it with wildflowers and public art.
This is the epicenter of New York's contemporary art world, with hundreds of galleries plus the Joyce Theater for modern dance and the Rubin Museum of Art. Chelsea Market, in a former Nabisco factory, anchors the food scene, and the neighborhood has a long history as a center of LGBTQ+ culture. Expect a cosmopolitan pace, and visitor crowds to match.
Where Chelsea sits
The official neighborhood boundary — every sale behind the numbers above closed inside this outline.
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