BY DONATHAN SALKALN | Chelsea’s retail stores, food stores, and restaurants are at the crossroads. Astronomical rents, changing demographics, online purchasing, the new minimum wage, and even the proliferation of food truck and cart vendors have contributed to closure of many local businesses, while establishments struggling to remain open have no choice but to pass on the new costs to […]
BY ALLEN OSTER | On Mon., Nov. 11, at the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial on Ninth Ave. (btw. W. 27th & 28th Sts.), Chelsea residents, elected officials, and the NYPD came together to remember our country’s veterans and give special recognition to the members of Chelsea’s St. Columba Parish, who served their country in World […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Chelsea voters participating in November 5’s General Election, the ones we spoke with, at least, were motivated not by the names on the ballot so much as the Ballot Questions at stake–that, and a strong sense of civic duty. Chelsea Community News stopped by the poll sites of Bayard Rustin High School […]
BY WINNIE McCROY | About 50 community members joined Community Board 4 (CB4) at Mt. Sinai West on the evening of Wed., Nov. 6, for their full board meeting. This particular edition of the monthly gathering was especially forward-looking, as CB4 cast its eye toward District needs and budget priorities for Fiscal Year (FY) 2021, […]
BY DONATHAN SALKALN | As the world’s weather intensifies, leaving behind unprecedented swaths of destruction, global warming is an issue that clouds all of our futures. At the Chelsea Reform Democratic Club’s October 17 public forum, called The Green New Deal, attendees gained clarity to what both New York City and New York State have […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | A highly anticipated project that promised to transform a former women’s incarceration facility into a hub of empowerment and activism has gone belly-up. In an Oct. 11 “Letter to Our Community” posted on the website of The Women’s Building, project sponsor the NoVo Foundation stated, “With heavy hearts, we have come […]
BY DONATHAN SALKALN | While many New Yorkers consider a summer vacation to be enjoying a sandy beach, being pampered at a resort or on a cruise ship, or even staying home lounging on the couch while binge watching, two executive committee members of the Chelsea Reform Democratic Club (CRDC) took their summer vacations down […]
BY WINNIE McCROY | Community members gathered at W. 26th St.’s Hudson Guild Elliott Center on Wed, October 2 for the monthly meeting of Manhattan Community Board 4 (CB4). As rain gently buffered the windows of the Dan Carpenter Room, inside, discussions got heated over attempts to privatize Fulton Houses and proposed changes to a […]
BY DONATHAN SALKALN | In the upcoming November 5 general election, New York City voters will be asked to vote “Yes” or “No” to 19 proposals in amending the NYC Charter. Because comprehending such an enormous sea of tiny print would be an exhaustive task—possibly taking some voters to use all the polling hours between 7am […]
BY MARK NIMAR | Cycle 9 of NYC’s annual Participatory Budgeting process commenced last Sunday, with a neighborhood meeting at Chelsea Green. Located at 140 W. 20th St. (btw. 6th & 7th Aves.), the recently opened micropark was created, in part, with funds from its win as the top vote-getter of Cycle 4. Participatory Budgeting […]