BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Take the studied mimicry of a musical tribute act, add the dead-on burns of a Friar’s Club Roast, and top it off with the showy vocal flourishes of a Kennedy Center Honors cover, performed as the iconic originator looks on from their box seat. Whisk together and bring to a near-boil—and […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Last week, the Chelsea Community News website hit its half-decade mark, celebrating the fifth anniversary of our April 23, 2019 launch. Last weekend, at the annual NYPA (New York Press Association) Better Newspaper Contest, CCNews won Third Place, Division I, Coverage of the Arts. It was an unconventional entry–all LGBTQ+-themed content. […]
BY NYC MAYOR ERIC ADAMS | For over two years, cities across the country have struggled to respond to the aftereffects of the COVID-19 pandemic. In New York City, slowing tax revenue growth combined with low office occupancy rates, and the expiration of temporary federal stimulus dollars have put a strain on our city’s budget. […]
Here’s What’s Happening This Week In & Around Chelsea Manhattan Community Board 4 Full Board Meeting / Penn South Ceramics Studio Sale / A New Season of Programming In & Around Bella Abzug Park / Down to Earth Farmers Market Chelsea / #ReframeClimate / Spring Fling in Chelsea Green Park The Full Board of Manhattan […]
Whether you made an appointment to be there or stumbled upon it and stayed, Gansevoort Plaza (Gansevoort St. & 9th Ave.) was the place to be on Saturday, April 13. That’s when the Meatpacking District’s large and lively public plaza saw a new tradition set in stone—cobblestone, actually—as the second annual Return of the Red […]
MEET OUR FREELANCE CONTRIBUTORS CHARLI BATTERSBY (arts, features, LGBTQ+ matters) | Charles (Charli) Battersby is a playwright, screenwriter, actor, model, game designer, and journalist. Battersby is known, as a playwright, for The Astonishing Adventures of All-American Girl & The Scarlet Skunk, and That Cute Radioactive Couple. Battersby is the screenwriter and co-creator of the animated web series The Storyteller: Fallout. Charles has […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | The block-spanning construction project currently centered around a high-profile patch of Chelsea real estate is progressing at its projected pace—and with it, regular updates to the community as promised by TF Cornerstone. As Chelsea Community News reported in our article of February 23 (click here to read it), properties on West […]
Here’s What’s Happening This Week In & Around Chelsea 10th Precinct Community Council / Medicare & Medicaid 101/ Life is a Dream / Two Shred Opportunities / Down to Earth Farmers Market Chelsea / #ReframeClimate 10th Precinct Community Council Meeting: Wednesday, April 24, 7pm at the 10th Precinct (230 W. 20th St. btw. 7th & […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | When New York State (NYS) Governor Kathy Hochul and the NYS Legislature went public with their final budget on April 20, it included a hard-won payroll tax credit for local news outlets—making New York the first state in the nation to incentivize the hiring and retaining of local journalists. Chelsea’s own […]
BY NYC MAYOR ERIC ADAMS | In November 2022, our administration announced a historic once-in-a-generation transformation of the Willets Points neighborhood in Queens. This neighborhood, which was once called the “Valley of Ashes” and known for its junkyards, is now being transformed into a vibrant neighborhood with 2,500 new all-affordable homes — the largest all-affordable […]