BY NYC MAYOR ERIC ADAMS | I started my career as a transit police officer, so I know firsthand that subway safety is public safety. Our transit system is the key to getting to work, to school, visiting family and friends, and experiencing all that New York City has to offer. It makes life in […]
In This Week’s “THIS WEEK IN & AROUND CHELSEA” Eviction Prevention 101 / West Side Community Fund Grant Applications Due March 10 / NYS Assembly Member Tony Simone’s Inauguration and Community Celebration / Community Cleanups / The Guides Association of New York City’s Ninth Annual GANYC Apple Awards / The Legacy of Former Colored School No. […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Held on the third Tuesday of the month—sans July, August, December—the 13th Precinct Community Council provides a forum where the public can interact with Police Officers, Detectives, and top leadership from the precinct tasked with protecting and serving a southern portion of Midtown Manhattan that includes swaths of easternmost Chelsea. Presently […]
Spotlight on Small Businesses DANA BLAIR DESIGNS 112 West 17th Street Hours: Monday-Saturday, 12pm-7pm and Sun., 12pm-6pm Online: https://danablairdesigns.com Email: dana@danablairdesigns.com Phone: 516-815-5324 TEXT, QUESTIONS & PHOTOS BY JOANNE ADLER SINOVOI | I was walking down West 17th Street when the sign for a jewelry store caught my eye. So I walked in to have a […]
NOTE: Throughout 2023, Chelsea Community News will be expanding into new areas of coverage, whose concerns overlap with those of our namesake neighborhood. Part of that commitment involves a closer look at the work being done by Manhattan Community Board 5. Below, find a primer on CB5 and its various committees. BY SCOTT STIFFLER | […]
BY NYC MAYOR ERIC ADAMS | A year into my administration, New York City remains the safest large city in America. We are following through on a 360-degree approach to fighting crime that includes both strategies for investing in our communities and excellent policing. Thanks to two years of tireless efforts and coordination between the […]
In This Week’s “THIS WEEK IN & AROUND CHELSEA” Apply for the Manhattan DA’s High School Summer Internship Program / West Side Community Fund Grant Applications Due March 10 / Black History Month Concert / The 200 West 22nd Street Block Association Kickoff Meeting / NYS Assembly Member Tony Simone’s Inauguration and Community Celebration / The […]
SCOTT STIFFLER | Compelling reasons continue to reveal themselves, in the years-long effort to landmark and repurpose a West Chelsea building owned—but not currently used—by the NYC Department of Sanitation (DSNY). The three-story property at 128 West 17th Street is the only known surviving Manhattan structure once used for the segregated public schooling of African […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Democrat Tony Simone, successor to Richard Gottfried as District 75’s New York State Assembly Member, spoke to Manhattan Community Board 4 (CB4) in that capacity, when the Full Board met on Wednesday, February 1. (Full Board meetings always devote some time atop the evening’s agenda to hear from elected officials or […]
BY TRAV S.D. | For almost 40 years Epstein and Hassan (Steve Krantz and Naima Hassan) formed a romantic and artistic partnership which saw them through a series of two-person shows, bookings in variety settings like burlesque bills and launch parties, as well as their own podcasts and radio programs. Billing themselves as “The Black […]