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 CHARLI BATTERSBY | I felt pretty smug as I approached City Hall on the late afternoon of June 9, 2025. I had RSVP’d for a Pride Month event with the City Council Speaker and members of the Council LGBTQIA+ Caucus. Several tourists were peeking through the fence, trying to get a pic of City […]
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 […]
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. ******************************* Anticipating the here-before-you-know-it General Election of November 4, 2025, the […]
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 […]
Here’s What’s Happening (in order of appearance): Pick of the Week / Live Jazz at Henry & The Lions / The Furies at Hudson Guild / Music, Art, & More at Verdi Cannabis / Art Exhibits at Hudson Guild/ The April 19 Return of Down to Earth Farmers Market Chelsea PICK OF THE WEEK Vanderbilt in […]
It’s Participatory Budeting Vote Week: March 29-April 6, 2025 PHOTOS BY CHRISTIAN MILES, TEXT COMPILED BY SCOTT STIFFLER | March 29-April 6, NYC residents can vote for locally developed projects to improve schools, parks, libraries, and other public spaces in their community. Voting is open to everyone ages 11 and older who lives in or […]
It was the end of an era at the end of the year last December, when we learned of the departure of Jordan Feiner. A longtime and very visible presence in the District 3 Office of NYC Council Member Erik Bottcher, Jordan will be missed—and given that a new person was recently appointed to take […]
REPORTED BY KATHRYN STOMSVIK with PHOTOS BY CHRISTIAN MILES | Monday, September 30, 2024, just before dusk: A violet glow illuminated the rush of Times Square traffic passing by 227 West 42nd Street’s Todd Haimes Theatre—a 1918-built venue whose neo-renaissance style was restored in 2000 by Roundabout Theatre Company. Inside, on the fifth floor of […]