BY NYC MAYOR ERIC ADAMS | New Yorkers deserve a city budget that delivers for them and tackles our affordability crisis head-on. Alongside Speaker Adams and our City Council partners, we are proud to announce the passage of a $112.4 billion Adopted Budget that invests in the future of our city and the people who […]
BY ELIZABETH ZIMMER Smuin Contemporary Ballet: July 9-14 at The Joyce Theater | Michael Smuin (1938-2007), one of ballet’s more entertaining choreographers, came out of the American west and danced with ABT and the San Francisco Ballet before turning to choreography at the age of 27. He collapsed and died of a heart attack in […]
Here’s What’s Happening This Week In & Around Chelsea Free Programming in Bella Abzug Park / The Sweat Sessions / Food Bag Program: Fresh Food for Seniors / Down to Earth Farmers Market Chelsea / The Hudson Yards Hell’s Kitchen Alliance Presents, Through October, Free Programming in Bella Abzug Park ( (W. 34th to 35th […]
A Rabbit Named Rainer / New York Live Arts: The House Party / The Queer Liberation March / NYC Pride March to Disperse in Chelsea / Action Afterhours and Pride Closing Party / —PRIDE Event Roundup by Scott Stiffler— A Rabbit Named Rainer: Regie Cabico and Drew Pisarra | Saturday, June 29, 9:30pm at The […]
NOTE: The following Guest Opinion piece contains strong language and disturbing, debate-based subject matter. The writer’s opinions do not necessarily reflect those of Chelsea Community News–except when he says that every eligible person should vote, and that Trump is repellent, racist, compulsively mendacious, homophobic, misogynist, authoritarian, caustic, abrasive, vengeful and relentlessly narcissistic. Enjoy! BY MAX […]
BY MICHAEL MUSTO | It’s Pride month…a time to celebrate how integral drag queens are to the queer community for their humor, nerve, and facility with a mascara wand. Drag is so revered (if controversial) now that it’s become contagious to the point where there are public figures who seem like drag queens who aren’t […]
Féile Bród (Pride Fest) / Sunset on the Hudson Pride Edition / The Stonewall Jukebox: A Documentary Concert / Michael Musto: Iconic / Pride Live Stonewall Day Concert / The Queer Liberation March / NYC Pride March to Disperse in Chelsea / Chelsea Community Church PRIDE-Themed Sunday Service / Pride Mural Invites Public Participation / […]
BY NYC MAYOR ERIC ADAMS | As New York City’s first openly dyslexic mayor, I know what it is like to not have the support I needed in school growing up. School was often difficult for me. I was scared of being called on by the teacher and my fellow students made fun of me. […]
Pride-Themed Community Murals Increase Their ‘Numbers’ as Public Paints Pride Month goes out in epic fashion on June 30th, as the annual NYC Pride March makes its way down Fifth Ave., into the Village, and up Seventh Ave. to its Chelsea dispersal point. All along the route, a righful sense of belonging is felt every […]
Here’s What’s Happening This Week In & Around Chelsea 10th Pct. Sector C Build the Block Meeting / Neighbors of 300 W. 21-22-23 Sts. Block Association Meeting / Fentanyl Test Strips & Narcan Kit Giveaway / Free Programming in Bella Abzug Park / MOMENTUM x Island Village: A Caribbean Pop-Up Market / Down to Earth […]