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 […]
The General Election is Tuesday, November 4–but you don’t have to wait until then to weigh in. In fact, you don’t have to wait much longer. Early voting, as noted here by the NYC Board of Elections, takes place in brick and mortar locations throughout NYC on the following dates: Saturday, October 25, 9am […]
Here’s What’s Happening This Week (in order of appearance): Power Ply at the Polls / Lunch and Learn: What’s on my Ballot? / Making Gay History Live Fall Events / High Line Halloween / Halloween on Hudson BOOlevard Power Play at the Polls: Ballot Questions 2-4 Would Rewire NYC’s Zoning Future! Who Would Benefit? | […]
Here’s What’s Happening This Week and Beyond (in order of appearance): Participatory Budgeting Kickoff / Making Gay History Live Fall Events / Free Events at Chelsea Green Park / Halloween on Hudson BOOlevard NYC Council District 3 Participatory Budgeting Cycle 14 Kickoff: Tuesday, October 14, 6pm to 7:30pm at the General Theological Seminary (440 W. […]
October 7, 2025 Congressman Jerry Nadler 201 Varick Street, Suite 669 New York, NY 10014 Dear Congressman Nadler: In your October 4th op-ed in AMNY, you cited the collapse of “part of a NYCHA building” as proof “that New York City’s public housing is quite literally falling apart.” You stated that what happened “was […]