BY DONATHAN SALKALN | After decades of declining funds from the federal government and lost revenue from tenants who remain housed despite paying little or no rent, the City of New York began to pursue a public/private partnership at some of their NYCHA (New York City Housing Authority) properties. Plans to do the same at […]
BY BRIAN DONOVAN | Today’s featured dog is Macchia the Dalmatian. He is 1 year old, and fluent in English and Italian, just like his mother, Alice (not pronounced like the American “AL-ISS” but in Italian, so that it sounds like “ceviche.” I met both of them last weekend at Il Piccolo (508 W. 28th […]
Writing the Apocalypse is a weekly series featuring the poems, essays, and recollections of Puma Perl, with subject matter influenced by her experiences as a NYC resident during the COVID-19 pandemic. Diva Dog Gomez, circa 2007-2021 | BY PUMA PERL Diva Dog Gomez had a rough start in life. At approximately three years old, she was abandoned […]
Author’s Note: In the summer of 2020, I learned that Niels H. Lauersen M.D., had passed away. Together, he and I had written five well-received books about women’s health over a 20-year stretch, however it was not our books but his Icarian rise too close to the sun that earned him the New York Times […]
BY TRAVS.D. | For Black History Month, we present you with weekly slices of the Tenderloin, the now-defunct New York City neighborhood that at its furthest extent ran between 24th and 62nd Streets between Fifth and Eighth Avenues, thus overlapping with modern Chelsea. The Tenderloin was so-named by a local police captain who relished the […]
Writing the Apocalypse is a weekly series featuring the poems, essays, and recollections of Puma Perl, with subject matter influenced by her experiences as a NYC resident during the COVID-19 pandemic. Past and Pandemic | BY PUMA PERL I was a child of Tenth Street Police locks and bodegas Open hydrants, rooftops, cerveza on credit We were […]
We’re perpetually impressed by the photos Eric Marcus takes, to support editorial content in the Neighborhood News Enewsletter he edits and publishes, on behalf of the 300 West 2oth Street Block Association. His artful photos of art on the High Line caught our eye, and Marcus kindly consented to this reprint from the Jan. 26, […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Most of us have logged more time sheltering in place during the past year than all the rain and snow days we’ll have if we live to be 100. Sure, you can get a new shower curtain or rearrange the shelves—but it’s just a matter of time before the same old same […]
The New York City Council’s District 3 is comprised of Greenwich Village, Chelsea, Hell’s Kitchen, the Flatiron District, West Soho, Hudson Square, the Meatpacking District, Columbus Circle, Times Square, the Theater District, and the Garment District. This year, term limits mandate the departure of the D3’s current rep, Corey Johnson—who, since 2018, has also served […]
Longtime Chelsea resident Pamela Wolff, currently ensconced in Truro, MA, sent us this view from her pillow, upon opening her eyes. This is not an unusual occurrence, noted Wolff, who said more often than not, at least two of the area’s four juvenile wild turkeys are there in the morning. “They give me a little […]