Writing the Apocalypse is a weekly series featuring the poems, essays, and recollections of Puma Perl, with subject matter influenced by her experiences as a NYC resident during the COVID-19 pandemic. To Breathe Again | BY PUMA PERL The intercom woke me at 5AM. As terror turned to hypervigilance, I dove into fight or flight mode. But […]
BY WINNIE McCROY | On the afternoon of Sat., March 13, candidates for City office reconvened via Zoom with concerned Chelsea tenants to respond to some of the questions about the health and safety of all New Yorkers during the extended lockdown regarding ventilation in residential housing, raised during the original Feb. 27 Zoom call […]
BY DONATHAN SALKALN | For four hundred and ten residents of Elliott and Fulton Houses, and their Chelsea neighbors, Sat., March 13 will be marked V-Day, as each received a victory over COVID-19, in the form of a Johnson and Johnson’s one-time-vaccine shot. The event was a joint effort between Walgreens (owner of Duane Reade […]
This Week’s “This Week in Chelsea” In Order of Appearance: W. Chelsea park’s new garden club / Chelsea Garden Club meeting / CRDC and Move the Money / Hudson Guild seeks talent / Free tax prep New Garden Club at CCM-Seal Park | From CCNews’ stalwart supporter and longtime insider info provider Allen Oster comes this good news, […]
“Where do you see yourself at this time next year?” wasn’t always such a loaded question. Before COVID-19, forward thinkers could confidently project ahead 365 days to find themselves seated in a restaurant booked to capacity, rubbing shoulders with fellow theatergoers, or making good on the “If I’m elected” promises that swept you into office. […]
NOTE: Once thought lost forever due to file corruption, this recently recovered article was originally submitted to Chelsea Community News on September 13, 2020 and should be read with that in mind. BY REV. JEN MILLER WITH PHOTO S BY JOHN FOSTER THOMAS | On March 16, 2020, I was furloughed from my job at […]
BY TRAV S.D. | For Women’s History Month, we will continue our series on famous vaudeville performers connected with the Tenderloin District. Now long defunct, the Tenderloin was a NYC neighborhood that at its furthest extent ran between 24th and 62nd Streets between 5th and 8th Avenues, thus overlapping with modern Chelsea. The Tenderloin was so-named […]
Writing the Apocalypse is a weekly series featuring the poems, essays, and recollections of Puma Perl, with subject matter influenced by her experiences as a NYC resident during the COVID-19 pandemic. Before, After, and During| BY PUMA PERL If it’s Wednesday, there must be a poem waiting, or at least a long nap We’re not yet […]
BY BRIAN DONOVAN | Today’s featured dog is Macchia the Dalmatian. He is 1 year old, and fluent in English and Italian, just like his mother, Alice (not pronounced like the American “AL-ISS” but in Italian, so that it sounds like “ceviche.” I met both of them last weekend at Il Piccolo (508 W. 28th […]
BY ELIZABETH ZIMMER | New York City’s dance community has been hammered by the pandemic; thousands of jobs have been lost, projects evaporated, careers disrupted. But next week, the artists and scores of professionals who love, support, and rely on them will gather virtually for Justice. Transformation. Education.—a four-day symposium designed to “reimagine the dance […]