Here’s What’s Happening (in order of appearance):

13th Precinct Community Council / 10th Precinct Sector B Build the Block Meeting / Manhattan Community Board Applications/ Art Exhibits at Hudson Guild / Music, Art, & More at Verdi Cannabis / 

Note: This events roundup was updated on Feb. 20, to reflect the current NCO roster for the 10th Precinct’s Sector B.

The 13th Precinct Community Council Meeting: Tuesday, February 18, 6pm at the 13th Precinct (230 E. 21st St.). | Meetings normally take place in the early evening on the third Tuesday of the month, offering the public the oppotuity to interact with top precinct leadership. Please direct any questions, before the meeting, to Officer Marisa Gonzalez; marisa.gonzalez3@nypd.org. These questions will be answered first. For the 13th Precinct’s web page, click here to access general info, find the next Build the Block meeting in one of the Precinct’s four Sectors (A, B, C, D), and download the latest Crime Statistics in PDF or Excel format. Note: The 13th Precinct serves a southern portion of Midtown, Manhattan. Areas of coverage: The Peter Cooper Village/Stuyvesant Town residential complex, Gramercy Park, the lower portion of Rosehill, Madison Square Park, and Union Square Park. Located at 230 E. 21st Street, the precinct’s main phone number is 212-477-7427.

10th Precinct Sector B Build the Block Meeting: Thursday, February 20, 5pm at Penn South (339 West 24th St.) | NCOs, or Neighborhood Coordination Officers, host quarterly Build the Block meetings addressing crime and quality of life matters for the 10th Precinct’s three Sectors: A, B, & C. Expect introductory comments often discussing crime stats, trends, and prevention, with the majority of the meeting devoted to a Q&A session between the NCOs and attendees. February 20 will be the public’s first opportunity to meet Sector B’s new team of NCOs— Police Officer Viscio and Police Officer Waters. They came to this assignment in last year’s fourth quarter, when the 10th Precinct lost five of its six NCOs to promotions or transfers.

Note: Sector B’s coverage area is W. 21st St. to W. 29th St., 7th Ave. to the Hudson. And currently scheduled for March 13 (5pm at 400 West 43rd Street) is the 10th Precinct’s Sector C Build the Block meeting. The NCOs are Police Officer Marian Bencea and Police Officer James Farrell. They can be reached via email, respectively at marianbencea@nypd.org and james.farrell3@nypd.org. Sector C’s area of coverage is  W. 29th St. to W. 43rd St., 9th Ave. to the Hudson. All meeting times, dates, and locations are subject to change. Please call your local precinct and speak to a Neighborhood Coordination Officer to verify correct meeting information.

Manhattan Community Board Applications Accepted Through Friday, February 28 | Community Boards, notes text found on the website of Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine, “are the independent and representative voices of their communities—the most grass-roots form of local government…The boards are pivotal in shaping their communities and work to enhance and preserve the character of the city’s many unique neighborhoods.”  Serving on a Community Board affords you the rare distinction of influencing policy and protocol, regarding things like the distribution of liquor licenses, land use and zoning regulations, and proposals from City agencies. To see what it really takes to serve, click here and click here to visit, respectively, the YouTube channels of Manhattan Community Board 4 and Manhattan Community Board 5. There, you’ll find recordings of past committee and full board meetings, where the months-long (sometimes years-long) process of bringing a topic from first discussion to hard-won fruition has been preserved in Internet amber, accessible 24/7/365. To visit, respectively, the CB4 and CB5 websites, click here and click here. To apply, click here.

Water’s Voice and Our Fragile Moment: Climate Crisis-Themed Exhibits at Hudson Guild | Free to the public, these exhibits are the latest in Hudson Guild’s Art in Response series in which “artists  examine issues of social and political importance to our community.” Water’s Voice considers the powerful presence of water in nature—and ourselves. (“We are mostly water,” the exhibit’s promo material notes.) The work of artists Patricia Espinosa, Eleanor Goldstein, Ellie  Irons, Susan Knight, Michelle Lougee, and Camille Seaman celebrate and champion water, working in a variety of formats and mediums. Free to view at Guild Gallery II (119 Ninth Ave.) through April 22; Tues. through Fri., 10am to 5pm, and by appointment (call 212-760-9837 to schedule a visit).

Having opened on February 13 at Hudson Guild Gallery (441 W. 26th St.) with a free reception from 5:30pm to 7pm, the exhibit Our Fragile Moment highlights environmental issues, including sea level rise. “The  combined voices of these artists allow beauty to blend with sadness, fear to be overlaid with hope and optimism, and  apathy to be turned to action,” notes artist/educator Fran Beallor, who curated this exhibit as well as Water’s Voice. As for the talent featured in Our Fragile Moment, Beallor’s hand-picked roster includes Rachel Aisenson, M. Annenberg, Nicole Betancourt,  Lois Bender, Pam Brown, Pamela Casper, Jesica Clark, Simona Clausnitzer, Nora Chavooshian, January Yoon Cho, Nicole Cooper, Cailyn  Dawson, Noreen Dean Dresser, Anke Frohlich, Nancy Gesimondo, Pearl Rosen Golden, Deborah Kruger, Sally Linder,  Christina Massey, Mars Miller, Eleni Mylonas, Beryl Perron-Feller, Grace Graupe Pillard, Jeffrey Allen Price, Kristin  Reed, Yvonne Lamar Rogers, Ann R. Shapiro, Amrita Singh, Molly Tenzer, Tammy West, Jane Whitten, and Lucy Wilner.

“Our Fragile Moment” is free to view through April 22; Tues. through Fri., 10am to 6pm, Sat., 12pm to 3pm, and by appointment (call 212-760-9837to schedule a visit). Monday, March 24, 76pm to 8:30pm, artists from both exhibits come together for a virtual event: “Artists on the Climate Crisis An Artists Talk on Art.”  This online discussion is held via Zoom. Click here for the link and when prompted, use 737066 as the password.

Events at Verdi Cannabis (158 W. 23rd St. btw. 6th & 7th Aves.) | Having recently celebrated its first full year since setting up shop on West 23rd Street, legal cannabis distributor Verdi Cannabis offers free arts programming via the for-sale work of artists hanging on their walls, and a Thursday night music series. The February schedule for that series is as follows: Feb. 6 saw Winter Strum in performance. Feb. 13, Chill Billies was on board. Feb. 20, Roberos are the musical guests–and Feb. 27,  The Constituency wraps up the Feb. schedule.

As for special events happeninng in-store: Feb. 23, Lobo Swag has a giveaway event–and Feb. 28, Kiki Kramer takes over. As for the featured artists whose work can be found on Verdi’s walls: Photographer Scott Harris presents a series of images from Phish concerts, available for purchase at $55 each. Also on view and available for purchase is the work of painter Pat Gallagher (aka G Funk). To keep up with what else is up with Verdi, click here to visit their website. To visit the EVENTS page of their website, click here.

—Listings compiled by Scott Stiffler

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