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

10th Precinct Community Council / Coffee & Converstions / Community Board Applications Accepted Through Feb. 27 / Ceres Gallery Exhibitions / 

10th Precinct Community Council Meeting: Wednesday, February 25, 7pm Online via Zoom | Having assumed Commanding Officer duties late last year, one of the general public’s all-too-rare opportunities to meet CO Capt. Timothy Wong (and pose questions) happens as he represents the 10th Precinct at February 25’s Community Counci meeting. Organized and moderated by Council President Larry O’Neill, this monthly citizen-run event features a Q&A session, with the Commanding Officer normally in attendance to provide answers. For the link to join the meeting, click here. The Meeting ID is 857 1306 5169 and the Passcode is 223873. Want to keep up with Council goings-on? Follow the Community Council on Facebook by clicking here.

Coffee & Conversations: Friday, February 27, 8:30am to 9:30am at Chelsea Green Park ( 140 W. 20th St. btw. 6th & 7th Aves.) | Out of bed, on the web, and stunned by the headlines…has the world gone mad? Keep doom at bay by going offline and parking yourself in the real world. That’s the appeal of Coffee & Conversations, a morning gathering that encourages–if not meaningful, then certainly civil–dialogue. Presented by Friends of Chelsea Green, Coffee & Conversations returns for a new season on February 27.  As usual, coffee and pastries are generously provided by The Commons Chelsea. See? Some things haven’t changed! For more info on Chelsea Green Park activities (including their annual fundraising auction), click here.

Manhattan Community Board Applications Accepted Through February 27

Newly installed Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal (MBP) has already embarked upon one of his marquee responsibilities: Appointing new members to Manhattan community boards. “I served on my local community board for over a decade and deeply appreciate the importance they serve to the local planning process, budget priorities, and city services. I hope you’ll consider serving, too,” said the MBP in a January 21 email to constituents. In order to be considered for appointment, a complete application must be submitted online or postmarked by no later than 5pm on Friday, February 27, 2026. Click here to access the application.

Ceres Gallery Presents: Polaroid Revisions, an exhibition of enlarged Polaroid photographs by Liz DeMayo and Welcome to Minako’s World, an exhibition of colorful lithographs by Minako Ito / Both Exhibitions on View Tuesday Through Saturday, 12pm to 6pm Through February 28 at Ceres Gallery (547 West 27th St. Suite 201; btw. 10th/11th Aves.) | Liz DeMayo’s enlarged Polaroid photographs of trees, plants, and aquatic scenes began as small images taken with a Polaroid, or transferred onto Polaroid film from a phone camera. Polaroid Revisions, the curators tell us, “includes three groupings of photographs enlarged onto paper, and two sets of canvases with the images enlarged to 30 inches.”

Welcome to Minako’s World includes 21 lithographs and one monotype whose NYC- and Tokyo-based “private rooms and urban places” rarely depict a human figure–”yet the human touch is evident everywhere.”

—-Listings compiled by Scott Stiffler

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