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 […]
BY MICHAEL MUSTO | No, the Broadway musical Hell’s Kitchen isn’t about gay guys who live in affordable walkups and go to Empanada Mama. With songs by 16-Grammy-winner Alicia Keys, it loosely draws on the long-running music star’s experiences, using Keys’ own hits (and three new songs she wrote) to illustrate a 17-year-old girl’s relationships […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | With piqued curiosity and pointed questions in tow, some 150+ Chelsea residents responded to an invitation to attend an April 14 presentation from The Very Rev. Ian S. Markham, Dean and President of Virginia Theological Seminary (VTS) and, locally, President of The General Theological Seminary (GTS). Upon arrival at the 440 West […]
BY MICHAEL MUSTO | If you think the idea of suffragists bursting into song is absurd, you’re forgetting Mary Poppins. (“We’re clearly soldiers in petticoats/And dauntless crusaders for women’s votes.”) Well, now, they’re crusading for Tony award votes with the ambitious musical Suffs, based on the American women’s suffrage movement, with a book and score […]
Easter came early this year, putting all of its eggs in a basket that saw plastic pastel-colored straw, dyed eggs, marshmallow peeps, and hollow chocolate rabbits high-tailing it to March 31. Some say a super-funky lunar calendar is the cause, while others wonder if these beloved springtime traditions simply thought it best to cede full […]
Here’s What’s Happening This Week In & Around Chelsea 13th Precinct Community Council meeting / Know Your Utility Rights / The Return of Down to Earth Farmers Market Chelsea The 13th Precinct Community Council: Tuesday, April 16, 6pm at the 13th Precinct (230 E. 21st St.) | Held on the third Tuesday of the month—sans […]