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 […]
BY NYC MAYOR ERIC ADAMS | Access to safe and affordable housing is one of the keys to prosperity. I understand that just as much as anyone else. As a child, I grew up on the edge of homelessness. There were days when I had to take a trash bag full of clothes to school […]
Here’s What’s Happening In & Around Chelsea Flatiron/NoMad’s Winter Glow / West Chelsea Festival of Art / 10th Precinct Build the Block Meetings / Pet Adoption / Tree Lighting & Menorah Lighting in Clement Clarke Moore Park / Community Cleanups / Control No Control: On View November 30 to January 1 at Flatiron North […]
BY NYC MAYOR ERIC ADAMS | The holiday season is a festive time of year. It’s getting colder, so we try to stay warm, we invite friends and family over, cook more, light candles, maybe burn a fire in the fireplace or use space heaters, buy Christmas trees and string them up with lights, and […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Devoid of product and people for nearly 14 months, The Donut Pub (W. 14th St. & Seventh Ave.) will be up and running again as of 6am on Monday, November 27. As we noted in our article of July 21, 2023 (Sweet Relief for the Glazed and Confused: Donut Pub to Resume […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Leave it to that reliabe old slayer of sacred cows–Lady Bunny–to greet this holiday season with the promise of a dirty, disgusting public display. From her perch in Times Square (aka the Laurie Beechmen Theatre), Lady Bunny: A Very Blue Christmas welcomes you to witness NYC’s own potty-mouthed “pig in a […]
BY CHARLI BATTERSBY | The Jewish Comics Experience (or “JewCE”) was announced before October 7, although the timing of the event is perfectly in tune with November 2023’s zeitgeist. The Golden Age superheroes like Superman, Captain America, and Batman were all created by Jews in the late 1930s. This is neither a coincidence, nor revisionist […]
Here’s What’s Happening In & Around Chelsea the 13th Precinct Community Council / West Chelsea Festival of Art / 10th Precinct Community Council & Build the Block Meetings / Community Cleanups / The Four Elements of Leigh Li-yun Wen The 13th Precinct Community Council: Tuesday, November 21, 6pm at the 13th Precinct (230 East 21st Street) […]