BY NYC MAYOR ERIC ADAMS | When we came to office two years ago, we had a clear vision: protect public safety, rebuild our economy, and make this city more livable for hardworking New Yorkers. But the increase of unlicensed smoke and cannabis shops across the five boroughs is one of the biggest quality-of-life issues […]
Here’s What’s Happening This Week In & Around Chelsea HPD Mobile Van & Movie Night Screening of The Goonies / A New Season of Programming In & Around Bella Abzug Park / Spring Fling in Chelsea Green Park / Down to Earth Farmers Market Chelsea / Neighbors of 300 West 21-22-23 Streets Block Association Inaugural […]
BY NYC MAYOR ERIC ADAMS | Since day one, our administration has had a clear mission: protect public safety, rebuild our economy, and make our city more livable for working-class New Yorkers. Every day, we are delivering on that vision. We have recovered all the private-sector jobs lost during the pandemic, one year ahead of […]
Here’s What’s Happening This Week In & Around Chelsea HPD Mobile Van / A New Season of Programming In & Around Bella Abzug Park / Family Picnic on the High Line / Down to Earth Farmers Market Chelsea / Spring Fling in Chelsea Green Park NYC Department of Housing Preservation & Development Mobile Van: May […]
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 […]