The makeover of the Far West Side has been taking shape for so long, anticipating its completion can feel like waiting for Godot, as if the moment will never arrive.

More than a decade ago, the city rezoned much of a vast industrial tract here to allow for a more typical urban neighborhood. Yet it will still be years before many major developments open their doors.

But a focus on slow-moving megaprojects like Hudson Yards, from the Related Companies and the Oxford Properties Group, and Manhattan West, from Brookfield Property Partners, which are developing high-rise towers, can obscure progress elsewhere.

Continuing a slow-and-steady trend, smaller apartment buildings are popping up throughout the neighborhood of Hudson Yards, which has the same name as the Related project but a much bigger footprint, sweeping west of Eighth Avenue, roughly from West 30th to 42nd Streets. Rentals and condos are also rising in next-door West Chelsea, long considered a separate enclave, though boundaries seem increasingly blurred.