This Week In & Around Chelsea: February 2-8, 2026
Here’s What’s Happening (in order of appearance): Election Day Voting…
Here’s What’s Happening (in order of appearance): Election Day Voting /The February Full Board Meeting of Manhattan Community Board 4 (MCB4)…
Penn South resident Judith Sokoloff shared with Chelsea Community News her photos taken at Friday, January 23’s Ice Out for Good…
Here’s What’s Happening (in order of appearance): 10th Precinct Community Council Meeting / Early Voting / Manhattan Community Board Applications /…
With Brad Hoylman-Sigal having become the Manhattan Borough President as of January 1, 2026, a Special Election has been called to…
Here’s What’s Happening (in order of appearance): Pick of the Week / Creating a Safe Home & Community: Support Domestic Workers…
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Some people practice religion by parking…
Autumn: A Cycle of Life That Mirrors Our Lives By…
BY CHARLI BATTERSBY | In the burlesque industry, ya’ gotta…
BY MICHAEL MUSTO | Provincetown, Massachusetts is a mixed (but…
CHARLI BATTERSBY | At the end of June’s Pride Month, the New York City Council adopted the upcoming budget for 2026. Among the $112 billion dollar budget are…
BY MICHAEL MUSTO | Provincetown, Massachusetts is a mixed (but heavily queer) resort town with lobsters, beaches, and lots of tucking and plucking, the prime season running through…
BY CHARLI BATTERSBY | There are quite a few hip places clustered together in Bushwick, so that a dedicated adventurer could plan out an evening of carefully-timed venue-hoping.…
BY CHARLI BATTERSBY | I felt pretty smug as I approached City Hall on the late afternoon of June 9, 2025. I had RSVP’d for a Pride Month…
BY MICHAEL MUSTO | The year is not really over until Lizzo sings (in an old video, of…
BY MICHAEL MUSTO | Provincetown, Massachusetts is a mixed (but heavily queer) resort town with lobsters, beaches, and lots of tucking and plucking, the…
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ChelseaCommunityNews.com (CCNews) is an independent online newspaper providing news, arts, events, and opinion content to Manhattan’s Chelsea community and its adjacent areas. That free…
BY TRAV S.D, (Reprinted with author’s permission from its original publication here on Travalanche March 11 is the birthday of downtown impresario Robert Prichard,…
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | All year long, the Penn South Ceramics Studio (276 Ninth Ave.) is where developing and established artists turn lumps of clay into objects both…
BY MICK MEENAN | The Stonewall Uprising that followed a June 28, 1969 NYPD raid on a Christopher…
Comfort food of the highest order, with staying power: That’s the long and short of it, as Creamline…
MEET OUR FREELANCE CONTRIBUTORS CHARLI BATTERSBY (arts, features, LGBTQ+ matters) | Charles (Charli) Battersby is a playwright, screenwriter,…