BY PAMELA WOLFF (President, Save Chelsea)| Chelsea, and New York, are again the losers in the game played by city agencies—supposedly champions of public interest—and the self-interested real estate industry. This time we lost a large chunk of our history. It is a gut punch of a public spectacle—the demolition of all nine landmarked […]
BY MICHAEL MUSTO | My earlier piece listing a batch of clichés that we desperately need to abolish (click here to read it) was a hit—but alas, it hasn’t put an end to cliches. In fact, there seem to be more of them than there are white people at a Republican interns meeting. Whoops, sorry, […]
NOTE: Chelsea Community News is reprinting the following with the permission and encouragement of its authors. BY THE COLLECTIVE MEMBERSHIP OF ADVOCATES FOR CHELSEA | We, residents and business owners in the low-20s blocks of Chelsea between 8th and 9th Avenues, call on the 10th Precinct of the NYPD, Community Board 4, and our City […]
BY MARK de SOLLA PRICE | Every British school child knows the rhyme: Remember, remember the Fifth of November, The Gunpowder Treason and Plot, I know of no reason Why the Gunpowder Treason Should ever be forgot. Well, I might not be fully British but I am not fully American either. Happily, Tea & […]
ALL PHOTOS BY IRI GRECO & JIM FRYER / BrakeThrough Media | www.brakethroughmedia.com | Saturday, October 30: As part of their 11am-5pm pedestrian-friendly Treats in the Streets event, Meatpacking (the Business Improvement District) made up for lost time and then some, when their annual Doggie Costume Contest returned with a stellar lineup of imaginatively costumed, four-legged […]
Save Chelsea is a broad coalition of organizations and individuals concerned with preserving the integrity of the Chelsea Historic District and maintaining as varied a mix as possible of economic, social and generational populations in our neighborhood. To visit our website, click here. Chelsea Community News is made possible with the help of our […]
TEXT & PHOTOS BY JOEY DAYTONA | I’d been working in Midtown when the virus hit (03/03/2020). I saw a guy on the subway sneeze into his hand and then touch the seat. I had that unsettling feeling that this would not end well. I was also determined to get a car and drive […]
TEXT BY INGE IVCHENKO with PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE LONDON TERRACE TENANTS ASSOCIATION AND OTHERS, AS NOTED | On behalf of the London Terrace Tenants Association (LTTA) Board, we want to thank all of you who stopped by Saturday, September 25’s 29th Annual London Terrace Street Fair. It was a gorgeous, picture perfect day in the […]
Note: The following is reprinted, with permission, from a September 15, 2021 blog by Ed Hamilton, for his Living with Legends: Hotel Chelsea Blog (“The Last Outpost of Bohemia”). To access the original, click here. BY ED HAMILTON | David Bard, beloved former general manager of the Chelsea Hotel, passed away on Tuesday, September 14, on […]
Saturdays, rain or shine, 9am-3pm: Chelsea Farmers Market | Down to Earth Farmers Markets has once again put down roots in Chelsea (on W. 23rd St. near Ninth Ave.). By and large, it’s the same experience as it’s always been (fresh products, friendly people), albeit with a few notable nods to pandemic protocol. (Face masks for those […]