BY EILEEN STUKANE | Reemergence, reinvention, and expansion: The story of how—and why—the 2006-founded Flatiron/23rd Street Partnership became the Flatiron NoMad Partnership has all of these elements, amplified by the fact that it took place as the pandemic was tapering off. “We are blessed that we have one of the best parks in all of […]
Here’s What’s Happening This Week In & Around Chelsea New Leadership at the 10th Precinct & Confirmation of 12/27 Community Council Meeting / Flatiron/NoMad Partnership’s Winter Glow / Holiday Caroling New Leadership at the 10th Precinct (230 W. 20th St. btw. 7th & 8th Aves.) | Note: See the final section of this paragraph for […]
BY CHARLI BATTERSBY | I walked into October 12-15’s New York Comic Con with a simple goal: Buy a comic book. Keith Giffen, one of my favorite comic book writers, had died earlier that week, and I wanted to find an issue of his Justice League from the “Bwah Ha Ha!” era in the late […]
BY NYC MAYOR ERIC ADAMS | Our city’s future depends on being able to help our young people grow, fulfill their potential, and thrive in an ever-changing economy. These days, it’s rare to think about spending decades at the same job, and education is the key to developing the flexibility and resourcefulness that our youth […]
BY EILEEN STUKANE | On the stage where I Need That is in performance, the curtain, playing the part of a canvas, offers a painted aerial view of streets and houses—a grid of suburbia in Anywhere, USA. My Playbill is even more specific: “Place: New Jersey” and “Time: Now.” Spilling from beneath the curtain and […]
BY MICHAEL MUSTO | I never get tired of coming up with drag queen names because it’s a chance to be punny and funny and a little bit incorrect. Here goes—and I’ll not only include a few actual drag queens’ names, I’ll follow that with some names for the drag kings, too. NOTE: Want more, […]
BY NYC MAYOR ERIC ADAMS | A fatal overdose occurs in New York City every 3 hours. The opioid epidemic is a growing public health crisis that we must end. It has inflicted too much heartache in our city. Manufacturers and distributors have hooked thousands of New Yorkers on opioids and other painkillers. They have […]
What is Causing the Housing Crisis? Thursday, December 14 Online at 5pm | In Chelsea Community News’ recent coverage of a Q&A-style Town Hall presented by NYS Assemblymember Tony Simone (click here to read it), we recalled a section in which talk turned to Affordable Housing. “If we don’t take drastic action,” said NYC Council […]
ABOUT MERCHANT’S HOUSE MUSEUM Through public education programs and exhibitions, restoration of its 1832 landmark building, and conservation of its original collections, the Merchant’s House Museum tells the story of the domestic life of a wealthy merchant family and their four Irish servants, 1835-1865, when the mercantile seaport of New York City emerged as a […]
BY TRAV S. D. | An extremely important Chelsea milestone approaches in just a few weeks. December 23 will mark the 200th anniversary of the first publication of the beloved poem A Visit from St. Nicholas—better known as ’Twas the Night Before Christmas, by Chelsea founder Clement Clarke Moore. (For how Moore can be described […]