GTS Lessee Vanderbilt University Vows to ‘Continue and Expand’ Engagement with Chelsea Community

GTS Lessee Vanderbilt University Vows to ‘Continue and Expand’ Engagement with Chelsea Community

BY SCOTT STIFFLER | West Chelsea residents and other area stakeholders spent the spring and summer of this year in a state of smoldering unease, following an April public gathering whose host–the financially faltering General Theological Seminary (GTS)–acknowledged the frontrunner to lease the lion’s share of their buildings was a “nonprofit partner” (the School of […]

This Week In & Around Chelsea: November 4-10, 2024

This Week In & Around Chelsea: November 4-10, 2024

Here’s What’s Happening (in order of appearance): The Full Board meeting of Manhattan Community Board 4 (MCB4)  / Hell’s Kitchen Culture Crawl and HYHK Alliance’s End of Season Survey/ Room to Grow’s Fill-a-Truck Event / Curbside Composting Information Sessions / The Green Room, a live music and arts series at Verdi Cannabis / Down to […]

Dead Set on Decorating, West Chelsea’s 400 Blocks Made Halloween Something to be Seen

Dead Set on Decorating, West Chelsea’s 400 Blocks Made Halloween Something to be Seen

BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Haunting images caught the eyes and captured the imagination once again this year, along the 400 blocks of West 21st and 22nd Streets, where going all-out is the “in” thing when the last week of October rolls around. That’s when a cordial-yet-competetive house decorating contest awakes the creative spirit of residents. […]

A Bumper Crop of Scenes from Chelsea Green Park’s Hocus Pocus Harvest

A Bumper Crop of Scenes from Chelsea Green Park’s Hocus Pocus Harvest

Friends of Chelsea Green, the frightfully hard-working group responsible for the year-round programming of spirited events in Chelsea Green Park (140 W. 20th St.), saw hundreds of costumed celebrants fall under the spell cast by “Hocus Pocus Harvest.” The Sunday, October 20 event marked 2024’s entry in the FRIENDS’ annual Halloween shindig–an event so sprawling […]

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