BY DONATHAN SALKALN | The population of New York City is climbing toward 9 million residents. The tourism stats for 2018, 65.2 million, marked its ninth year of consecutive growth. Luxury apartment buildings, office towers, tech companies, and college campuses are clogging our skylines and jamming our neighborhoods like never before. Like a speeding cargo […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Chelsea’s own Burt Lazarin, a London Terrace resident since 1977, was honored with not one, but two, Proclamations extolling his work as former Chair of Manhattan Community Board 4 (CB4), and so very much more. That he’s worthy of such recognition should come as no surprise to those familiar with his […]
BY WINNIE McCROY | Community members gathered at W. 26th St.’s Hudson Guild Elliott Center on Wed, October 2 for the monthly meeting of Manhattan Community Board 4 (CB4). As rain gently buffered the windows of the Dan Carpenter Room, inside, discussions got heated over attempts to privatize Fulton Houses and proposed changes to a […]
BY KRISTEN ANCILLOTTI | Community Board 4 (CB4) convened their full board meeting on July 24 at the Hudson Guild Elliott Center (441 W. 26th St. btw. 9th & 10th Aves.), with a packed agenda of topics to cover, as usual. What made this night a little different, were the people gathered outside the building […]
BY DONATHAN SALKALN | Since the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) unveiled a plan that would allow private developers to take the wrecking ball to two of the 11 Fulton Houses and privatize Fulton’s management, petitions in opposition have begun flooding NYCHA’s Fulton Houses and Elliott-Chelsea Houses, Penn South, and other enclaves of working […]
BY KRISTEN ANCILLOTTI | Community Board 4 (CB4) held their monthly full board meeting on June 5 (at Mount Sinai West), to discuss neighborhood business and invite residents to share their concerns. The meeting began with a presentation by Tiffany Triplett Henkel, chair of the Hell’s Kitchen South Coalition, on their Neighborhood Plan (in development […]