This Week in Chelsea: June 10-16, 2019

This Week in Chelsea: June 10-16, 2019

It’s this website’s prerogative to change its mind–or at least change formats. That’s why all of the activities you’ve enjoyed reading about in our “Today in Chelsea” section are now to be found here, fresh every Monday, in our “This Week in Chelsea” section. Keep checking this page throughout the week, because we’ll be adding […]

Hudson Yards Hell’s Kitchen Alliance Celebrates a Successful Year

Hudson Yards Hell’s Kitchen Alliance Celebrates a Successful Year

BY KRISTEN ANCILLOTTI | The Hudson Yards Hell’s Kitchen Alliance (HYHK) held their annual meeting on June 4 at 555TEN in Midtown to commemorate a year of neighborhood improvements, the successful opening of Hudson Yards, and the work of local artists, as well as to give a peek at what is to come. The Business […]

Zimmer on Dance: ‘Women / Create!’ at New York Live Arts

Zimmer on Dance: ‘Women / Create!’ at New York Live Arts

BY ELIZABETH ZIMMER | For years, Jennifer Muller/The Works has curated a spring festival of edgy female choreographers in Muller’s Chelsea loft. This month, an expanded version of the project (Women / Create!—A Festival of Dance) moves down the block into the spacious environs of New York Live Arts, and features, in addition to Muller’s […]

‘Swan’ Song: Celebrating the Remarkable Life of Paul Swan

‘Swan’ Song: Celebrating the Remarkable Life of Paul Swan

BY TRAV S.D. | Today, June 5,  is the birthday of Paul Swan (1883-1972). How fitting that it falls during PRIDE month! Swan was one of the most remarkable artists of the 20th century: painter, sculptor, model, dancer, choreographer, poet, movie actor, set and costume designer, and—for a few weeks in 1914–vaudevillian. Furthermore, he functioned […]

This Week in Chelsea: June 3-9, 2019

This Week in Chelsea: June 3-9, 2019

It’s this website’s prerogative to change its mind–or at least change formats. That’s why all of the activities you’ve enjoyed reading about in our “Today in Chelsea” section are now to be found here, fresh every Monday, in our “This Week in Chelsea” section. Keep checking this page throughout the week, because we’ll be adding […]

SILENT BATTLE: Remembering D-Day

SILENT BATTLE: Remembering D-Day

June 6, 1944, Normandy, France: 24 hours on Utah Beach with an Assault Reconnaissance Engineer BY RICK CARRIER Storm gray, rain heavy sky. Battleships fill the horizon, north to south, guns aflame. Fiery tracers fly low overhead, etch sparkling strings of color. The pow-kapow of big enemy guns, shoot right at me.   Surging assault […]