Page 235 "...our Chelsea neighborhood."

Subway entrance

Images of the Chelsea district in Manhattan.  Chelsea's boundaries are roughly 14th Street to the south, 30th Street to the north, the western boundary of the Ladies' Mile Historic District (between Sixth Avenue and Seventh Avenue) to the east, and the Hudson River and West Street to the west. (Courtesy of Wikipedia)

Chelsea neighborhood



Chelsea



23rd Street station, E Train (8th Avenue Line)

The kind of neighborhood where Owen & Sarah, and Walter live.

From page 235 of the book:  "...These buildings had managed to blend somehow into the facades of corner delicatessens opposite corner bars and drugstores and the various entrances to the Eighth Avenue subway line. There was a restaurant that served Chinese and Spanish food, a clothing store for the weekend athlete, and still more lofts and co-ops."