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

Congressman Jerry Nadler’s Virtual Town Hall / 10th Precinct Community Council Meeting / West Side Community Fund’s  Spring 2025 Grant Cycle / Offally Good Food / Manhattan Community Board Applications/ Art Exhibits at Hudson Guild / Music, Art, & More at Verdi Cannabis / 

Congressman Jerry Nadler’s Virtual Town Hall Meeting: Tuesday, February 25, 7pm | This event gives you an update on the elected’s latest work in Washington and New York. It will also, event organizers assure, give attendees the chance to have “your biggest concerns facing the nation and the city” heard, via questions submitted as part of the RSVP process. Scheduled to join Congressman Nadler are Letitia James, Attorney General of New York State, Kevin Jennings, CEO of Lambda Legal, and Donna Lieberman, Executive Director of NYCLU. Click here to register for the attending the event online (registration form includes a section to submit a question you’d like to see answered at the event.) Note: Registering to attend via Zoom is the only method that allows you to submit a question. The Town Hall will be available to watch live on YouTube and Facebook.

The 10th Precinct Community Council: Wednesday, February 26, 7pm at the 10th Precinct (230 W. 20th St. btw. 7th & 8th Aves.) | This last-Wednesday-of-the-month meeting is hosted and moderated by the Council’s president, Larry O’Neill. The citizen-run gathering is a rare opportunity for the public to engage directly with top 10th Precinct leadership on matters of crime trends, troubled local locations, and quality of life matters. Representatives from the offices of local elected officials are often in attendance, as is a rep from the Manhattan District Attorny’s Office. Do questions remain? Bring them to the Q&A session that makes for the meeting’s main attraction. Follow the Community Council on Facebook by clicking here.

The West Side Community Fund’s (WSCF) Spring 2025 Grant Cycle: Applications Accepted Through Wednesday, March 19 |

Launched seven years ago, the consortium of leading businesses and firms based in Chelsea, Hudson Yard, and Hell’s Kitchen gives a vote of confidence (and thousands of dollars) to initiatives delivering services to under-resourced residents along the west side. Past WSCF grantees have included community health centers, block and tenants’ associations, non-profits, schools, NYCHA projects, youth leadership programs, food pantries, social services for seniors, neighborhood news groups (including Chelsea Community News), arts programs, and more. In 2024, WSCF’s spring and fall grant cycles distributed some $200,000 among 26 grantees (with seven recognized by both cycles). Funding for the grants came from a donor pool that included Amazon, Brookfield Properties, Clear, Cooley, Google, Hudson Yards, Jamestown, James Beard Foundation, KKR, Pfizer, Promethean Builders, RXR, S9 Architecture, Tapestry Foundation, Turner Construction, Wells Fargo, and Wynn. Applications are due by Wednesday, March 19, and grant recipients will be announced in early May. Click Here to apply.

Offally Good Food: Thursday, February 27 at the Chelsea Local (lower level of Chelsea Market; 75 Ninth Ave.) | This one-night-only dining experience hosted by the neighborhood butcher shop Dickson’s Farmstand Meats offers “nose-to-tail dining” showcasing expertly prepared offal dishes that “highlight the bold flavors and versatility of often overlooked cuts.” This 21+ event functions as Dickson’s debut of Explore the Off Cuts–“our first Offal-focused cocktail party.”

Guests will have the opportunity to complement their meals with an unlimited selection of beer and wine that will be served throughout the night, while also enjoying the ambiance of live music by The Offally Good Players. The embarrassment-of-riches menu includes Dry-Aged Beef & Heart Sliders with Pork Jowl Bacon; and Frisee Salad with Crispy Guanciale. Tickets are $66 plus tax, and for that, you get unfettered access to the “open bar and delicious food.” To purchase tickets and get more info, click here.

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.  Feb. 27,  The Constituency wraps up this month’sschedule. As for special events happeninng in-store: Feb. 28, Kiki Kramer takes over. Also: Always on view alonf the walls–and available for purchase–is the work of painters and photographers. 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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