Guest Opinion: Helping New Yorkers Live Longer

Guest Opinion: Helping New Yorkers Live Longer

BY NYC MAYOR ERIC ADAMS | When we came into office, we promised that we would ensure that our prosperity would be felt across the five boroughs. And the health of our people is key to that prosperity. But despite coming out of a once-in-a-century pandemic, life expectancy in this city has not fully recovered. Between […]

Review: The Haunting ‘Harmony’ Recalls Comedians Trapped in the Holocaust

Review: The Haunting ‘Harmony’ Recalls Comedians Trapped in the Holocaust

BY MICHAEL MUSTO | A Holocaust musical by Barry Manilow? Relax, it’s actually good. Harmony has been gestating since 1997, when it premiered in San Diego, and now—after playing the Museum of Jewish Heritage last year—it’s finally arrived on Broadway. With music by long-running pop star Manilow and book/lyrics by Bruce Sussman, who’s written film […]

Letter to the Editor: Chelsea Subway Stops Need Elevators Now!

Dear Editor: Subway elevators serve us all—those with disabilities, parents with strollers, pregnant women, seniors, people with bad backs and knees, tourists, and anybody with luggage. Only about 25% of NYC’s 472 stations are accessible. A five-year lawsuit initiated by disability transportation activists against the MTA was settled in 2022, so there is now a legal […]

Innovative & Essential Initiatives Celebrated, Supported with West Side Community Fund Grants

Innovative & Essential Initiatives Celebrated, Supported with West Side Community Fund Grants

BY EILEEN STUKANE | The West Side Community Fund (WSCF) held its 2023 Grantee Celebration on October 25, and the mood could not have been more uplifting. This is the Fund’s Five-Year Anniversary of awarding grants avergaing $5,000 each to sprung-from-the-heart, local initiatives that are attuned to the needs of neighborhood people. The event, held at […]

This Week In & Around Chelsea: November 13-19, 2023

This Week In & Around Chelsea: November 13-19, 2023

Here’s What’s Happening In & Around Chelsea Free Flu Vaccines / CB4’s Transortation Planning Committee Meets / Congrats to the 10th Precinct’s CO / Home Spun / The Four Elements of Leigh Li-yun Wen: Opening Reception  / West Chelsea Festival of Art / Down to Earth Farmers Market Chelsea / Community Cleanups /    Free Flu Vaccine: Monday, November […]

This Week In & Around Chelsea: November 6-12, 2023

This Week In & Around Chelsea: November 6-12, 2023

Here’s What’s Happening In & Around Chelsea Pick of the Week / Election Day / Free Flu Vaccines / Community Cleanups / Carri Skoczek: Portraits at Hudson Guild’s Guild Gallery II /   PICK OF THE WEEK: Chilifest Saturday, November 11, 12-5pm on West 15th Street (btw. 9th & 10th Aves.) After a nearly decade-long absence—during which […]

Show, Story, Experience, Memory: Iconic Hotel’s Café Chelsea is Making its Own History

Show, Story, Experience, Memory: Iconic Hotel’s Café Chelsea is Making its Own History

BY DEBORAH FENKER | The Hotel Chelsea (222 W. 23rd St. btw. 7th & 8th Aves.) was, arguably, the most famous address in all of Chelsea, until it wasn’t—but now, arguably, it is once again. During its protracted renovation, the hotel certainly retained its reputation for controversy, celebrity, and scandal, but waned as a tourtist attraction, […]

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