This Week In & Around Chelsea: March 18-24, 2024

This Week In & Around Chelsea: March 18-24, 2024

Here’s What’s Happening This Week In & Around Chelsea CB4’s Chelsea Land Use Committee Meets / NYC Council Member Erik Bottcher’s Free Tax Filing Service, March 18 & 27 / 13th Precinct Community Council Meets / West Side Community Fund Grant Applications: New Deadline is March 22  / Manhattan Community Board 4’s Informational Forum on […]

Q&A with Ellis Soodak of Verdi Cannabis, Chelsea’s Lone Legal Licensed Dispensary

Q&A with Ellis Soodak of Verdi Cannabis, Chelsea’s Lone Legal Licensed Dispensary

BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Having softly opened for business 12 days into 2024—followed by a January 26 ribbon cutting befitting the Grand Opening of something truly unprecedented—Verdi Cannabis was the first (and remains the only) legal, licensed, adult use cannabis dispensary in Chelsea. Located at 158 West 23rd Street (btw. 6th & 7th Aves.), it’s […]

Guest Opinion: Building a City of Opportunity

Guest Opinion: Building a City of Opportunity

BY NYC MAYOR ERIC ADAMS | As I often say, we live in a city of 8.3 million people—and 35 million opinions. But one thing all New Yorkers can agree on is that people come to our city to make it.  They come here to work, build lives, and fulfill the American Dream. And the […]

This Week In & Around Chelsea: March 11-17, 2024

This Week In & Around Chelsea: March 11-17, 2024

Here’s What’s Happening This Week In & Around Chelsea Pick of the Week / West Side Community Fund Grant Applications / Manhattan Community Board 5’s Full Board Meeting / Manhattan Community Board 4’s Informational Forum on Casinos & Gambling / The 10th Precinct Sector C Build the Block Meeting / A View From Today: Contemporary […]

Get Off Your Duff and On the Right Course, at Puttery NYC

Get Off Your Duff and On the Right Course, at Puttery NYC

Open for business–and group-friendly fun–as of March 7, 2024, Puttery NYC (446 W. 14th St.) is the latest addition to the nationwide chain putting an immersive, culinary and cocktail-friendly spin on the mini golf concept. We recently posed a few questions to Puttery Business Development Manager Alice Smith. Below, find the informative results. Scott Stiffler, […]

Opinion: New York Must Enact the Local Journalism Sustainability Act

Opinion: New York Must Enact the Local Journalism Sustainability Act

BY THE EMPIRE STATE LOCAL NEWS COALITION, WITH ADDITIONAL TEXT BY CHELSEA COMMUNITY NEWS FOUNDER/EDITOR SCOTT STIFFLER | As objective and independent news writers and editors, we have an imperative to cover the issues most important to the people of our coverage area: Chelsea, Flatiron/NoMad, Meatpacking District, Hudson Yards, Hell’s Kitchen/Times Square, and the Penn […]

Must-See Meetings, Waiting for You on the Web

Must-See Meetings, Waiting for You on the Web

BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Not a week goes by where we don’t feature a public meeting accessible via Zoom, a local brick and mortar location, or both. Many of them are recorded for posterity and posted online for perpetual (usually free) access at your convenience. And so we come to this—an occasional roundup column that […]

This Week In & Around Chelsea: March 4-10, 2024

This Week In & Around Chelsea: March 4-10, 2024

Here’s What’s Happening This Week In & Around Chelsea MCB4 Full Board Meeting / West Side Community Fund Grant Applications / The Greater Good Series / A View From Today: Contemporary Landscapes / Bingo Night / From 50 the Future: A Hip-Hop Exhibit at Chelsea Market / Apply to Serve on Your Manhattan Community Board […]

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