New york luxury apartments Living In Koreatown By DEBORAH BALDWIN

October 19, 2008developers, hoteliers and home buyers were
Living In Koreatownconverging here, too, bumping up values along Fifth
Exotic Flavor, Beyond Just the FoodAvenue, rejuvenating historic residential towers on
By DEBORAH BALDWINHerald Square, and helping to turn this pathway
VISIT Koreatown for the first time on a Saturdaybetween the Empire State Building and Penn Station
night, when West 32nd Street turns into ainto a destination.
neon-lighted playground for clubbers and noshers, andBordered by Fifth Avenue and the Avenue of the
you may wonder where it has been hiding all theseAmericas and 30th and 36th Streets, and a short hop
years.to Madison Square Park and Union Square,
Once you have seen it in lights, you may be temptedKoreatown is a remnant of the old textile district -
to settle in. And you won’t be alone. Beforeneither Chelsea nor Murray Hill, neither Midtown nor
the credit chill descended on New York, high-enddowntown.