BY SCOTT STIFFLER | A special session of the Manhattan Community Board 4 (MCB4) Chelsea Land Use (CLU) committee set for August 19 has taken on a heightened sense of urgency since it was first scheduled (a matter documented in our article of August 5). As noted in an August 14 email to the community […]
BY NEW YORK CITY MAYOR ERIC ADAMS | Every day, everywhere I go — whether it’s at a town hall, on the streets, or when participating in an interview — I hear about the quality-of-life issues that affect New Yorkers’ daily lives. I am proud of the progress we have made bringing down crime and […]
Here’s What’s Happening (in order of appearance): Return of the London Terrace Street Fair / West Side Community Fund Applications / Events at Chelsea Green Park / Free Programming from HYHK (Hudson Yards Hell’s Kitchen Alliance) / Music, Art, and More at Verdi Cannabis /Down to Earth Farmers Market Chelsea The London Terrace Street Fair: Saturday, September […]
BY MICHAEL MUSTO | Provincetown, Massachusetts is a mixed (but heavily queer) resort town with lobsters, beaches, and lots of tucking and plucking, the prime season running through September and beyond. Here’s a rundown of my latest trip there, specifically involving which drag queens provided the most entertaining distraction from panic—and what they wore. PLASMA […]
BY NEW YORK CITY MAYOR ERIC ADAMS | My mother was a single parent who worked three jobs just to make sure my siblings and I had a roof over our heads and food on the table—so I know the struggle to live a better life is real. A college education can help New Yorkers […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Chelsea is one crucial step closer to having a new neighbor for nearly a century to come, if not more. That defining development was announced in an August 11, 2025 press release from Tennessee-based Vanderbilt University, all-but-certain lessee of the Close (W. 20th to 21st Sts., 9th to 10th Aves.). The […]
Here’s What’s Happening (in order of appearance): Pick of the Week / Chain Theatre Film Festival / Free Events at Chelsea Green Park / The Sweat Sessions / Free Programming from HYHK (Hudson Yards Hell’s Kitchen Alliance) / Music, Art, and More at Verdi Cannabis /Down to Earth Farmers Market Chelsea PICK OF THE WEEK (NEXT WEEK) Registration […]
BY CHARLI BATTERSBY | There are quite a few hip places clustered together in Bushwick, so that a dedicated adventurer could plan out an evening of carefully-timed venue-hoping. Have a few drinks at the photogenic bar, hit the cool cabaret for an irreverent vaudeville act, then off to the roller rink, and trust that there’ll […]
Note: The following letter, sent out on the morning of August 8, 2025, is published with the permission of Save Chelsea. The community-based organization encourages you to contact City Council Member Erik Bottcher and other elected officials with your concerns about the NYCHA plan. August 8, 2025 / TO: City Council Member Erik Bottcher […]
BY CHARLI BATTERSBY | I felt pretty smug as I approached City Hall on the late afternoon of June 9, 2025. I had RSVP’d for a Pride Month event with the City Council Speaker and members of the Council LGBTQIA+ Caucus. Several tourists were peeking through the fence, trying to get a pic of City […]