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 […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER| Strolling shoppers, schmoozing stakeholders, and priced-to-go purveyors of slightly used stuff, rejoice: That much-missed harbinger of autumn–The London Terrace Street Fair–has slipped the surly bonds of its 2024 cancellation by booking 2025 and 2026 return dates (Sept. 20 and Oct. 3, respectively). It was August 9 of last year when Chelsea Community […]