When John Jobbagy's grandfather immigrated from Budapest in 1900, he joined a throng of European butchers chopping up and shipping off meat in a loud, smelly corner of Manhattan that New Yorkers called the Meatpacking District.
JOSEPH B. FREDERICK and CEDAR ATTANASIO, Associated PressThe meatpackers accepted a deal to move out of their building so that the city can redevelop the area.When John Jobbagy's grandfather immigrated from Budapest in 1900, he joined a throng of European butchers chopping up and shipping off meat in a loud, smelly corner of Manhattan that New Yorkers called the Meatpacking District.
"The neighborhood I grew up in is just all memories," said Jobbagy, 68. "It's been gone for over 20 years." Another sign for a wholesale meat supplier appears on a long building awning outside Samsung's U.S. flagship phone store. People only visited the neighborhood if they had business, usually transacting in handshake deals, he said.
By 2000, "Sex and The City" character Samantha had left her Upper East Side apartment for a new home in the Meatpacking District. By the show's final 2003 season, she was outraged to see a Pottery Barn slated to open near a local leather bar. "If I told him that the elevated railroad was going to be turned into a public park, he never would have believed it," he said.
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