In This Week’s “THIS WEEK IN CHELSEA” MTA Substation Presentation to CB4 / PS 11 Farm Market / Events at Chelsea Green Park / Vinyl Nights / Down to Earth Farmers Market Chelsea / The London Terrace Street Fair / Events From Earlier This Week: The 13th Precinct Community Council The MTA Presents to the Community […]
BY ELIZABETH ZIMMER Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods: Violet | Meg Stuart, born in New Orleans to theater professionals and now based in Belgium and Germany, attended NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and cut her teeth in the contact improvisation community. Her accomplishments are legion and her reach is wide. Stuart’s Violet, 11 years old, has already toured to […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | A busy and much-beloved 7-Eleven whose 2015 arrival initially seemed out of step with the neighborhood’s mom-and-pop shop density has withdrawn from its 194 Seventh Ave. location, leaving Slurpee-loving supporters longing for the old days. The national chain store’s departure is, unlike their single-dose packs of ibuprofen, a bitter pill to […]
BY ELIZABETH ZIMMER | Returning to action after its annual hiatus, the dedicated-to-dance Joyce Theater offers a rare outlier: An hour-long, one-man show, Burn, made collaboratively by the multi-talented Scottish actor Alan Cumming and choreographer Steven Hoggett, in celebration of the Scottish poet laureate Robert Burns. Arriving in Chelsea weeks after its world premiere at […]
BY KATHY ROMANO ELLMAN | I see a lot of posts online about all the issues in, and surrounding, Chelsea. In addition to posting about issues, we need to go further. It takes a village, and we all need to help. I am in constant contact with both the 10th and 13th Precinct, since I […]
In This Week’s “THIS WEEK IN CHELSEA” Vinyl Nights / Down to Earth Farmers Market Chelsea / London Terrace Street Fair / Last Week in Chelsea: The Opera Next Door / Events from Earlier This Week (updated 9/15): “sueño” on the High Line / PS11 Farm Market / Community Music at Chelsea Green Park / Vinyl […]
BY BONNIE ROSENSTOCK | Maintaining its need to “provide critical support for improved service,” the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) is gearing up to construct a below ground substation on West 28th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues. That project continues to fuel concerns from some residents of Penn South—the sprawling six-block, 10-building co-op and NORC […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | A longtime Chelsea resident who recalibrated his daily life and his locally based business after surviving a devastating brain injury will represent New York City as a regional honoree at the Saturday, September 10 March On for Brain Injury Walk. An annual day of solidarity and visibility created by the nonprofit […]
Chelsea Community News notes the passing of Lady Isabella Von Craig, known to her many friends as “Izzy.” And those friends were legion, from inquisitive toddlers to veteran Chelsea residents who held the pup in high esteem, measured against so many other canines whose neighborhood walkabouts are as much fun for us to witness as […]
In This Week’s “THIS WEEK IN CHELSEA” Manhattan Community Board 4’s Full Board Meeting / PS11 Farm Market / 13th Precinct Sector B Build the Block Meeting / Vinyl Nights / E-Waste Recycling / The Opera Next Door / Down to Earth Farmers Market Chelsea / “sueño” on the High Line / London Terrace Street Fair / […]