BY SUSAN PALMER MARSHALL, PRESIDENT, CCBA | The Council of Chelsea Block Associations (CCBA) recently hosted its Summer Soirée at Ora La Casa de Las Flores (229 Ninth Avenue). Delegates representing CCBA’s Member Block and Tenant Associations gathered with elected officials, their community liaisons, and invited guests for an evening of cocktails and conversation. Throughout […]
The following editorial content first appeared in the print edition and on the website of our sister publication, LGBTQCommunityNews.nyc. BY SCOTT STIFFLER | What’s so queer—politically speaking—about the place where I live, work, and play? If you have to ask, you’re probably not a registered voter residing in Chelsea or its adjacent areas. No matter […]
BY JOANNE DOWNES (with additional text from the Regier family) | Prominent longtime Chelsea resident and community activist Hilda Mae Regier passed away during the early morning hours of Feb. 15, 2026, at Kidron Bethel Healthcare (a care facility in Kansas), where she had resided for the past three years. Born in 1934 in Goessel, […]
The Council of Chelsea Block Associations (CCBA) is comprised of 15 Block Associations and 3 Tenant Associations covering an area spanning from the north side of West 14th Street to the south side of West 30th Street, and from the west side of Sixth Avenue to the east side of 12th Avenue. CCBA works, they […]
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 […]
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