FEATURED EVENT OF THE WEEK | Saturday, September 25, 10am-5pm: The Return of the Annual London Terrace Street Fair| Nothing can stop this annual rain or shine event–except the two times when something did: In 2001 because of 9/11, and last year during the danger and uncertainty of COVID-19. Having observed the landscape since the vaccine […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Sweat is the one price they’ll pay—and they’ll pay plenty—when 10 promising young people from our area find themselves immersed in a new NYPD program designed to help them realize their full potential as athletes. Chelsea’s 10th Precinct is picking up the tab for the free, two-week Summer Sports Camp, whose […]
National Night Out is, as their website notes, “an annual community-building campaign that promotes police-community partnerships and neighborhood camaraderie to make our neighborhoods safer, more caring places to live… Neighborhoods host events with safety demonstrations, seminars, youth activities, and more.” Locally, the 13th Precinct (whose area of coverage includes slivers of easternmost Chelsea) observed National […]
BY WINNIE McCROY | The pandemic-demanded reimagining of Manhattan as something less than a 24/7 source of retail, restaurant, and nightlife opportunities made it seem like the city that never sleeps had gone into hibernation. Tourists left in droves and have yet to return in comparable numbers; residents sheltered in place shortly after sundown; and unhoused […]
BY WINNIE McCROY | With its many shelters providing resources for at-risk individuals, Midtown Manhattan has long been welcoming to the unhoused. But when the NYC Department of Homeless Services (DHS) compensated for the COVID-19 complications of existing facilities by relocating hundreds of people under their care onto two blocks in the upper West 30s, […]