Hudson Yards Is Manhattan’s Biggest, Newest, Slickest Gated Community. Is This the Neighborhood New York Deserves?

You can see it on the skyline or along the Hudson River, upending Manhattan’s silhouette. During the last half dozen years it has materialized almost like a mirage, levitating above more than a dozen gritty acres of working rail tracks on the Far West Side. The largest mixed-use private real-estate venture in American history, it is called Hudson Yards.