ChelseaCommunityNews.com (CCNews) is an independent online newspaper providing news, arts, events, and opinion content to Manhattan’s Chelsea community and its adjacent areas. That free content is made possible by advertising revenue, grants, and voluntary reader donations. Click here to contribute to our GoFundMe campaign. *********************************************** BY ANDY HUMM | In his time, Tom Stoddard was […]
***UPDATE: MAY 20, 2025*** | The below article, published on Friday, May 16, 2025, should be considered within the context of this article. Published on Tuesday, May 20, 2025, it notes, “Wynn Resorts announced on May 19, 2025 its decision“not to lodge an application for a gaming license in New York City.” That decision removes […]
Response from Liam Blank to Eugene Sinigalliano’s A Block 780 Resident Reacts to the FRA’s Recent Takeover at Penn Station (ChelseaCommunityNews.com / Guest Opinion: May 4, 2025) BY LIAM BLANK | As author of 2022’s From Here to There: Regional Rail for Metro New York (published during my tenure at the Tri-State Transportation Campaign) and […]
BY NEW YORK CITY MAYOR ERIC ADAMS AND UNITED BODEGAS OF AMERICA (UBA) PRESIDENT RADHAMES RODRIGUEZ | Bodegas are on every corner of New York City, there for us at all hours, and the bodegueros who service them become our family. So, when the COVID-19 pandemic hit our city, our bodegas were a lifeline to our […]
ChelseaCommunityNews.com (CCNews) is an independent online newspaper providing news, arts, events, and opinion content to Manhattan’s Chelsea community and its adjacent areas. That free content is made possible by advertising revenue, grants, and voluntary reader donations. Click here to contribute to our GoFundMe campaign. ************************************************ Here’s What’s Happening (in order of appearance): Penn South Co-Op’s […]
ChelseaCommunityNews.com (CCNews) is an independent online newspaper providing news, arts, events, and opinion content to Manhattan’s Chelsea community and its adjacent areas. That free content is made possible by advertising revenue, grants, and voluntary reader donations. Click here to contribute to our GoFundMe campaign. ************************************************ BY SCOTT STIFFLER | April showers bring May flowers–but what […]
ChelseaCommunityNews.com (CCNews) is an independent online newspaper providing news, arts, events, and opinion content to Manhattan’s Chelsea community and its adjacent areas. That free content is made possible by advertising revenue, grants, and voluntary reader donations. Click here to contribute to our GoFundMe campaign. ************************************************ NOTE: As each meeting scheduled during May 2025 has […]
BY NYC MAYOR ERIC ADAMS | Last week, I went back to Bayside High School in Queens to deliver the Fiscal Year 2026 Executive Budget — the Best Budget Ever — in the same place I attended high school. My message was simple: this budget is not some abstract set of numbers; it is a […]
ChelseaCommunityNews.com (CCNews) is an independent online newspaper providing news, arts, events, and opinion content to Manhattan’s Chelsea community and its adjacent areas. That free content is made possible by advertising revenue, grants, and voluntary reader donations. Click here to contribute to our GoFundMe campaign. ************************************************ Here’s What’s Happening (in order of appearance): City Council District […]
BY EUGENE SINIGALLIANO | I write this piece to express my views to the Federal Rail Administration (FRA) which announced on April 17 that it will now be taking a more “hands on” approach to the Penn Station project and has appointed Amtrak to lead the project and relegated the MTA and NJ Transit (all three herein […]
