Coffee & Construction Friday, February 20 at 9am In Moore 1W on Vanderbilt University’s Chelsea Campus Enter at 420 West 20th Street (btw. 9th & 10th Aves.) With less than six months until its inaugural class of undergrads arrive, Vanderbilt University is moving full speed ahead with the work that will transform former General […]
Item Donations Sought For Annual Fundraising Auction Supporting Chelsea Green Park (140 West 20th St. btw. 6th & 7th Aves,) Auction Bids Accepted Feb. 27 – March 12 BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Friends of Chelsea Green–that great group of perpetual park boosters–is appealing to their own friends, to help make their annual fundraising auction the […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | All year long, the Penn South Ceramics Studio (276 Ninth Ave.) is where developing and established artists turn lumps of clay into objects both decorative and functional. And come early December, their annual Holiday Sale serves as the discerning gift-giver’s reliable source of one-of-a-kind mugs, plates, bowls, trays, vases, jewelry, and […]
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PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE W400 BLOCK ASSOCIATION; TEXT BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Horribly high production values give life to the eerie, eccentric, frighteningly photogenic flights of fancy on display at West Chelsea’s annual W400 BA Best Halloween Decorations Contest. This highly competitive yet hardly cutthroat October tradition has homes on West 21st and 22nd Streets […]
The General Election is Tuesday, November 4–but you don’t have to wait until then to weigh in. In fact, you don’t have to wait much longer. Early voting, as noted here by the NYC Board of Elections, takes place in brick and mortar locations throughout NYC on the following dates: Saturday, October 25, 9am […]
PHOTOS COURTEY OF CHELSEA MARKET / TEXT BY SCOTT STIFFLER | A deliciously done benefit that closes Chelsea Market food hall and shopping mall for one night only saw September 18 as the occasion of its fourth annual iteration. In excess of 130 local chefs, artisans, and mixologists brought their best to the table, so […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Nashville-based Vanderbilt University’s plan to establish a presence on the West Chelsea block commonly known as the Close is all but set in stone now, with their August 11 announcement noting the New York State Attorney General has “granted the approval necessary to close on the lease of its new campus […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER| Strolling shoppers, schmoozing stakeholders, and priced-to-go purveyors of slightly used stuff, rejoice: That much-missed harbinger of autumn–The London Terrace Street Fair–has slipped the surly bonds of its 2024 cancellation by booking 2025 and 2026 return dates (Sept. 20 and Oct. 3, respectively). It was August 9 of last year when Chelsea Community […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | With its stretches of subway grating flanked by a windowless Con Edison substation and a busy bike lane, Seventh Avenue between West 18th and 19th Streets has long been in need of beautification. While the restaurants and residential buildings of surrounding blocks beckon, this barren, concrete anomaly can’t claim so much […]