BY NYC MAYOR ERIC ADAMS | New York City is a big city of small businesses — mom and pop shops, bodegas, food trucks, restaurants, and more — and there’s no better time for our businesses to shine than the holiday season. The holiday season adds $500 million to the city’s economy through increased spending […]
Here’s What’s Happening This Week and Beyond (in order of appearance): The 300 West 18th & 19th Streets Block Association Annual Meeting / The Full Board Meeting of Manhattan Community Board 4 / Friends of Chelsea Green’s Outerwear Drive & Coat Swapkk / The West 400 Block Association’s Annual Tree Lighting & Menorah Lighting / […]
Autumn: A Cycle of Life That Mirrors Our Lives By Lisa Ruimy Holzkenner Human life and all creatures on earth can be compared to the four seasons. Each has its own rhythm and rhyme celebrating birth, mourning death. Autumn, a whimsical double edge, brings hope and sadness to humanity and to all living things. Autumn’s arrival takes summer’s embellishing light far beyond […]
div class=”richtext”> BY NYC MAYOR ERIC ADAMS | Young people living in foster care in our city need help building a strong future where they are set up for success. As an administration committed to uplifting all our city’s youth, we are here to make sure those young people connect to college and career opportunities […]
The following Guest Opinion piece by David Holowka is a reprint of content that first appeared on November 14, 2025 on Holowka’s blog, ArchiTakes. To access that version, click here. All photos and images are by or courtesy of David Holowka, unless otherwise noted. Residents of Chelsea’s Fulton and Elliott-Chelsea Houses (FEC) protested NYCHA’s planned […]
Here’s What’s Happening This Week and Beyond (in order of appearance): Event of the Week / Community Food Drive / Down to Earth Farmers Market Chelsea / NYS Assemblymember Tony Simone’s Winter Coat Drive / Policy Perspectives: The Future of Penn Station / Community Needs Assessment Survey / PREPARING FOR ICE: CANVASS OF CHELSEA […]
Here’s What’s Happening This Week and Beyond (in order of appearance): 300 West BA Annual Meeting / Klea Blackhurst / Down to Earth Farmers Market Chelsea / NYS Assemblymember Tony Simone’s Winter Coat Drive / Policy Perspectives: The Future of Penn Station / Community Needs Assessment Survey / Annual Meeting of the 300 West 21st, […]
BY NYC MAYOR ERIC ADAMS | For nearly four years, the Adams administration has worked every day to make New York City a safer, more affordable city for all, especially working-class families. We have made great progress on public safety, public health, and economic growth, and we continue to be the most pro-housing administration in […]
PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE W400 BLOCK ASSOCIATION; TEXT BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Horribly high production values give life to the eerie, eccentric, frighteningly photogenic flights of fancy on display at West Chelsea’s annual W400 BA Best Halloween Decorations Contest. This highly competitive yet hardly cutthroat October tradition has homes on West 21st and 22nd Streets […]
Here’s What’s Happening This Week (in order of appearance): MCB4 Full Board Meeting / Coffee at the Curb / Coat Drive / Community Needs Assessment Survey / The Full Board Meeting of Manhattan Community Board 4 (MCB4): Wednesday, November 5, 6:30pm Online via Zoom & YouTube and In-Person at Pier 57 (25 11th Ave. at […]