BY SCOTT STIFFLER | From the top-tier talent on Broadway to the world’s worth of authentic cuisine found up and down Restaurant Row to the pedestrian plazas filled wth tourists taking in sights and sounds they’ll be talking about for years to come: The Times Square area has never run short on “Only in New […]
BY INGE IVCHENKO: President, London Terrace Tenants Association & Manhattan Community Board 4 Member (opinions expressed here are her own) | As a longtime West Side resident and member of Community Board 4, I have watched with cautious optimism as development reshaped our neighborhood. At its best, thoughtful planning has transformed old industrial blocks into […]
Note: The person providing answers to the below Q&A is not participating is his capacity as a member of Manhattan Community Board 4 (CB4). Instead, he is writing as spokesperson for (and member of) the preservationist group Save Chelesa. The topic of this Q&A is Save Chelsea’s report of August 22, 2025, in which the […]
Note: The following letter, sent out on the morning of August 8, 2025, is published with the permission of Save Chelsea. The community-based organization encourages you to contact City Council Member Erik Bottcher and other elected officials with your concerns about the NYCHA plan. August 8, 2025 / TO: City Council Member Erik Bottcher […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | From wall of silence to font of information: That’s the seismic shift in style and substance, since a September 26, 2024 announcement noted that financially faltering General Theological Seminary (GTS) signed an agreement establishing Nashville-based Vanderbilt University as presumptive lessee of the Close (aka the 207-year-old Seminary grounds, W. 20th to […]
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 LETISIA ROMERO | I have lived in the Elliott-Chelsea […]
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. ******************************* Following 14 consecutive days during which voters of the early […]
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. ******************************* During June’s Pride Month, Chelsea Community Newsn(CCNews) is grateful–and appropriately […]
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. ************************************************ Policy Perspectives: A Conversation with NYC Housing Authority Chief Executive […]
Having softly opened for business on January 12, 2024—followed by a grand January 26 ribbon cutting (with local electeds and area stakeholders in attendance), Verdi Cannabis became the first legal, licensed, adult use cannabis dispensary in Chelsea. Doing business in a prime (some would say primo) location—at 158 West 23rd Street, between Sixth and Seventh […]