Happening This Week, in “This Week In & Around Chelsea” The July/August Full Board Meeting of CB4 / The 10th Precinct Sector A Build the Block Meeting / This Stretch of Montpelier / Fitness Boot Camp / Wellness Wednesdays / Black Girls CODE Summer Camp / The July/August Combo Meeting of Manhattan Community Board 4 (CB4): […]
BY ELIZABETH ZIMMER | The astonishing thing about the Mark Morris Dance Group’s upcoming season at the Joyce Theater is that it has never happened before. Morris, who founded the troupe in Seattle in 1980, showed his early work in tiny black box spaces like Dance Theater Workshop (now replaced at the same 219 W. […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Finally, the sprinkling of good news we’ve been waiting for: After closing in October of 2022 due to danger posed by the partial collapse of a basement wall, the sugar sanctuary that stood near the corner of 14th and Seventh for almost six decades is about to come full circle. Granted, […]
BY MICHAEL MUSTO | Who says the nightlife is dead? It’s alive and well and living in the form of a musical about Imelda Marcos. An immersive show about the onetime Filipina First Lady, with music by David Byrne and Fatboy Slim (based on their concept album) and additional music by Tom Gandey and J Pardo, Here Lies Love […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Not a week goes by where we don’t feature a public meeting accessible via Zoom, a local brick and mortar location, or both. Most of them are recorded for posterity and posted online for perpetual (usually free) access at your convenience. And so we come to this—the debut of an occasional […]
BY LYNN ELLSWORTH | The destruction of Penn Station in the 1960s came about through a cozy arrangement between two brothers, James and Irving Felt. One was a real estate developer and the head of City Planning, and the other was a financier. They replaced the station with Madison Square Garden, the ugly tower known […]
BY NYC MAYOR ERIC ADAMS One of my most sacred obligations as Mayor is keeping our children safe from harm—and one of the leading risks to their health is nicotine-based products, including cigarettes and e-cigarettes, also known as vapes. We have made great progress, as a city and nation, keeping our youth safe from traditional cigarette smoking—bringing down youth smoking rates from 23% in 2000 to 2.3% in 2021. But with the […]
Happening This Week, in “This Week In & Around Chelsea” Constituent Hours with NY State Sen. Krueger’s Reps / This Stretch of Montpelier / Fitness Boot Camp / Wellness Wednesdays / Vinyl Nights / Black Girls CODE Summer Camp / Pilobolus in the Park CANCELLED (This event was cancelled by Sen. Krueger’s office on the […]
BY ELIZABETH ZIMMER | Pilobolus—the mostly-male performance ensemble founded at Dartmouth College in 1971—had its 50th anniversary celebration derailed by the pandemic, but picked up the pieces and is touring now with two retrospective programs, each containing new works and repertory favorites. In residence at the Joyce through the end of July, the Connecticut-based troupe […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Looking for a religious experience without the burden of learning a whole new set of rules to abide by? Two quintessential NYC experience on two successive days of the week beckon. The first inspires you to follow that still small voice that knows right from wrong; the second has the world […]