Meatpacking District to lose last beef businesses as trendy nabe eyes new housing deal
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Meatpacking District to lose last beef businesses as trendy nabe eyes new housing deal

ByNews Polite

The Meatpacking District’s last remaining meatpackers might soon give way to 600 rental apartments, a Whitney Museum expansion and new facilities for Friends of the High Line, Realty Check has learned. The meat merchants, which once numbered in the hundreds, dwindled to a mere few in recent decades as the area drew…

Artist Enrique Cabrera claims burst water pipe ruined M in paintings
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Artist Enrique Cabrera claims burst water pipe ruined $25M in paintings

ByNews Polite

A Mexican artist whose Meatpacking District gallery was flooded by a burst water pipe claimed his insurance company is only shelling out a measly $9,000 for paintings worth $25 million, according to a lawsuit. Painter and sculptor Enrique Cabrera claims his insurance agent had promised the artworks — four paintings…