BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Over a half-century of imprisonment came to an end in early 2025, when American Indian Movement (AIM) activist Leonard Peltier’s sentence was commuted, as one of President Biden’s last official actions before leaving office. Since then, the now-82-year-old Peltier has lived under house arrest. Peltier admitted participation in a June 26, […]
Here’s What’s Happening (in order of appearance) The 10th Precinct Community Council / Chelsea Neighbors United / MCB4 District Needs Survey / Photography Exhibition / West Side Street Clean Up / The London Terrace Street Fair / The Longest Table / Fourth Annual Blessing of the Animals / MCB4 Full Board Meeting / West Side Community […]
Walk past 176 Ninth Avc. on any given day or night, and you’ll swear you’re looking at a new arrival on the Chelsea gallery scene; or a corporate brainstorming session; or game night… or, a potluck? There are no wrong answers, becasue all that and more has been happening at the storefront space on the […]
This Super-Sized Edition of Our Weekly Events Calendar Lists its Featured Activities Sequentially, From September 22 to October 16. Coming Soon: Happenings from Halloween to New Year’s Eve… Thursday, September 24, 6pm Online: Chelsea Neighbors United ( CNU) Participates in Virtual Hands Off Ambassador Neighborhood Training. | Part of what’s made Chelsea Neighbors United—our locally […]
This entry in our Support Small Businesses section is unusual, in that it offers no singular brick-and-mortar location for the things it has to offer. But what it has to offer—a creative response to urban isolation—compels us to sing its praises. As such, please see the below Q&A. But first, a bit of background […]
Here’s What’s Happening This Week Pick of the Week / Manhattan Book Club / Apply for a West Side Community Fund Grant / Many Ways of Being: An Exhibit at Hudson Guild Gallery / Live Music at Urban Vegan Kitchen / Events in Chelsea Green Park / Events in Bella Abzug Park / Down to […]
Here’s What’s Happening This Week Book Club / Apply for a West Side Community Fund Grant / Hands Off Our Votes and Our Neighbors / Many Ways of Being: An Exhibit at Hudson Guild Gallery / Live Music at Urban Vegan Kitchen / Events in Chelsea Green Park / Events in Bella Abzug Park / […]
Here’s What’s Happening This Week MCB4’s Full Board Meeting / Free Live Music at Urban Vegan Kitchen / Free Events in Chelsea Green Park / Hudson Guild Gallery Exhibit / Free Outdoor Events in Bella Abzug Park / Down to Earth Farmers Market Chelsea / The September Full Board Meeting of Manhattan Community Board 4 […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Nearly two full years after the financially strapped General Theological Seminary found a 99-year leasee for its iconic Chelsea property, an inaugural class of undergrads is on the ground—officially transforming West 20th to 21st Streets (btw. 9th/10th Aves.) into the first satellite campus of TN-based Vanderbilt University. Construction and repair work […]
Here’s What’s Happening This Week Free Events in Chelsea Green Park / Free Outdoor Events in Bella Abzug Park / Down to Earth Farmers Market Chelsea / Free Events in Chelsea Green Park (140 W. 20th St. btw. 6th & 7th Aves.) | Ongoing and one-shot programming, presented by Friends of Chelsea Green, fills the […]