BY SCOTT STIFFLER | With a December 15 Town Hall and ongoing community canvassing, the newly formed Chelsea Neighbors United (CNU) is empowering local residents and business owners with preventative tips and real-time protocols, should they find themselves in the midst of an immigration raid. Mindful of nationwide actions conducted by masked government agents arriving […]
Here’s What’s Happening This Week and Beyond (in order of appearance): Pick of the Week / Fulton Tenants Association Christmas Tree Lighting Celebration / The West 400 Block Association’s Annual Menorah Lighting / Holiday Toy Drive / Candlelight Carol Service / ICE Out of NYC: A Community Mobilization Town Hall / PICK OF THE WEEK […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Some people practice religion by parking themselves in the a pew twice a year: Once in the winter, to celebrate the Christ Child’s birth, and once in the spring, to mourn the death of a preachy 33-year-old who healed the sick, fed the hungry, and made a lot people quite cross […]
Here’s What’s Happening This Week and Beyond (in order of appearance): The 300 West 18th & 19th Streets Block Association Annual Meeting / The Full Board Meeting of Manhattan Community Board 4 / Friends of Chelsea Green’s Outerwear Drive & Coat Swapkk / The West 400 Block Association’s Annual Tree Lighting & Menorah Lighting / […]
The following Guest Opinion piece by David Holowka is a reprint of content that first appeared on November 14, 2025 on Holowka’s blog, ArchiTakes. To access that version, click here. All photos and images are by or courtesy of David Holowka, unless otherwise noted. Residents of Chelsea’s Fulton and Elliott-Chelsea Houses (FEC) protested NYCHA’s planned […]
Here’s What’s Happening This Week and Beyond (in order of appearance): Event of the Week / Community Food Drive / Down to Earth Farmers Market Chelsea / NYS Assemblymember Tony Simone’s Winter Coat Drive / Policy Perspectives: The Future of Penn Station / Community Needs Assessment Survey / PREPARING FOR ICE: CANVASS OF CHELSEA […]
Here’s What’s Happening This Week and Beyond (in order of appearance): 300 West BA Annual Meeting / Klea Blackhurst / Down to Earth Farmers Market Chelsea / NYS Assemblymember Tony Simone’s Winter Coat Drive / Policy Perspectives: The Future of Penn Station / Community Needs Assessment Survey / Annual Meeting of the 300 West 21st, […]
PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE W400 BLOCK ASSOCIATION; TEXT BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Horribly high production values give life to the eerie, eccentric, frighteningly photogenic flights of fancy on display at West Chelsea’s annual W400 BA Best Halloween Decorations Contest. This highly competitive yet hardly cutthroat October tradition has homes on West 21st and 22nd Streets […]
Here’s What’s Happening This Week (in order of appearance): MCB4 Full Board Meeting / Coffee at the Curb / Coat Drive / Community Needs Assessment Survey / The Full Board Meeting of Manhattan Community Board 4 (MCB4): Wednesday, November 5, 6:30pm Online via Zoom & YouTube and In-Person at Pier 57 (25 11th Ave. at […]
Here’s What’s Happening This Week (in order of appearance): Early Voting / Chelsea Community Church”Anniversary Sunday / 10th Precinct Community Council / Free Apple Cider & Fall Rooftop Views / Halloween on Hudson BOOlevard / MCB4 Full Board Meeting / Community Needs Assessment Survey / Making Gay History Live Events / Free Breast Cancer Screening […]