It’s Participatory Budeting Vote Week: March 29-April 6, 2025 PHOTOS BY CHRISTIAN MILES, TEXT COMPILED BY SCOTT STIFFLER | March 29-April 6, NYC residents can vote for locally developed projects to improve schools, parks, libraries, and other public spaces in their community. Voting is open to everyone ages 11 and older who lives in or […]
BY NYC MAYOR ERIC ADAMS | New York City is breaking jobs records over and over again, which is good news for every New Yorker. To keep up with this economic expansion, this administration has been actively working to rezone key neighborhoods throughout the five boroughs, advancing bold, transformational projects that will strengthen the local […]
Here’s What’s Happening (in order of appearance): Participatory Budgeting Expo and Voting Period / The 10th Precinct Community Council / Music, Art, & More at Verdi Cannabis / Demo and Dine / Art Exhibits at Hudson Guild / The Furies Participatory Budgeting Expo: Thursday, March 27, 5-6:30pm at the Museum of Broadway (145 W. 45th […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Barracuda–the innovative gay lounge on West 22nd Street whose brand of drag entertainment spawned countless imitators–is closing its doors after three successful decades. As of March 23, it joins the ranks of other belated local watering holes (including Splash, Rawhide, and Champs) whose combined presence made Chelsea the go-to, bar-hopping gayborhood […]
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, co-founder and bull goose looney of the much-missed performance space known as Surf Reality (or, by the full title, Surf Reality’s House of Urban Savages). I’ve had cause to mention Surf close to […]
BY NYC MAYOR ERIC ADAMS | We know that in order to make New York City the best place to raise a family, we need to keep families and all New Yorkers healthy. That means ensuring New Yorkers have access to the mental health care they need. Every day we hear about mental health struggles […]
BY PUMA PERL | Sometimes it feels like a dream. The empty highways. The quiet streets. Except for the sirens and the seven o’clock clap. Alternate side parking rules suspended for months, no fares collected on buses, stores shuttered, senior hours at Trader Joe’s. People calling it the “new normal.” Nothing was normal. Everything and […]
Here’s What’s Happening (in order of appearance): 13th Precinct Community Council / Take MCB4’s Online Transportation Poll / West Side Community Fund’s Spring 2025 Grant Cycle / Music, Art, & More at Verdi Cannabis / The 14th Annual Spring Meeting of the Chelsea Garden Club / Demo and Dine / Art Exhibits at Hudson Guild […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Dozens of worthy initiatives dedicated to the betterment of those in Chelsea, Hudson Yards, and Hell’s Kitchen have seen their own fortunes improve through the bi-annual grant program of the West Side Community Fund (WSCF). Applications for the Spring 2025 Grant Cycle are being accepted through Monday March 24—-an extension on […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | In 2025’s topsy-turvy world of on-again/off-again tariffs and all manner of mortifying monkeyshines coming from the Oval Office, it’s good to know that here on the island of Manhattan, there are some systems in place that need no disrupting; regularly held events you can mark on your calendar in indelible ink. […]