BY HARRISON MARKS| Recently, the Rent Guidelines Board (RGB) voted to increase rents for rent-stabilized tenants by 3.25% for 1-year leases and by 5% in 2-year leases. That doesn’t sound so stable to me. As a candidate running to represent thousands of rent-stabilized tenants in the 75th Assembly District on the west side of Manhattan, […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | It seems like forever since TV icon and leggy Broadway leading lady Linda Lavin released her debut solo album, appropriately titled Possibilities, with liner notes by Hal Prince. (“Wonderfully unique singing voice, acting chops and — what else can you call it? — star quality,” he gushed, of directing her in […]
BY MICHAEL MUSTO | Happy Pride! There are plenty of queer establishments in NYC at which you can celebrate, but let me step in between your cocktails and remind you of some past places that were absolute gay heaven. We can briefly remember their glory, then go right back to putting the mo’ back in […]
BY MARTY BARRETT | What is the collective term for drag queens: A Sashay? A Tuck? A Flotilla? However the OED defines it, a blindingly brilliant (and occasionally bedazzled) constellation of drag queens descended upon our sprawling city, as RuPaul’s DragCon LA 2022—the event’s 10th in-person iteration—brought sparkle back, May 13-15. Hundreds of drag queens—whether […]
PHOTOS & TEXT BY MARTY BARRETT | RuPaul’s DragCon LA 2022 (May 13-15) was a seismic event—and how appropriate for Pacific Rim-adjacent Los Angeles—that represented a release of all that pent-up COVID claustrophobia in a healing lava rain of drag queens across a grateful downtown LA. The 10th in-person DragCon featured hundreds of vendors, reunions […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Steeped in a history few who pass by its doors are aware of, the role in African American history played by a building on the 100 block of West 17 Street compels New York City to grant it landmark status. That’s the rallying cry of author, black New Yorker, licensed NYC […]
With early voting daily through June 26 and the Primary Day election on June 28, we’re in the final phase of sizing up candidates to determine who will succeed retiring Richard Gottfried as the New York State Assembly District 75 rep. We asked candidate Tony Simone about the problems and potentials of the area he seeks to […]
In This Week’s “THIS WEEK IN CHELSEA” The Big Mix / Wellness Wednesdays Free Flatiron Fitness Series / West Chelsea Contemporary Exhibit / Down to Earth Farmers Market Chelsea / Early Primary Voting / Stargazing on the High Line / The Big Mix Performance Party: Through Sunday, July 3 on Little Island, in Hudson River […]
EARLY JUNE PRIMARY VOTING Saturday, June 18 through Sunday, June 26 The June Primary is scheduled for Tuesday, June 28, 2022 and will include elections for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, State Assembly, Judges, and Party Positions. To find your Early Voting or Election Day pollsite and view a sample ballot, click here. For more information via the Board of Elections, click […]
BY PAMELA WOLFF | The needlessly destructive class warfare plan to hand over Midtown’s Penn Station area to a lone, monied real estate interest—cooked up by disgraced former New York State Governor Mario Cuomo and inherited with blind gusto by his successor—must not be permitted to move forward. To do so would forever alter thousands […]