BY MICHAEL MUSTO | It’s Pride month…a time to celebrate how integral drag queens are to the queer community for their humor, nerve, and facility with a mascara wand. Drag is so revered (if controversial) now that it’s become contagious to the point where there are public figures who seem like drag queens who aren’t […]
Féile Bród (Pride Fest) / Sunset on the Hudson Pride Edition / The Stonewall Jukebox: A Documentary Concert / Michael Musto: Iconic / Pride Live Stonewall Day Concert / The Queer Liberation March / NYC Pride March to Disperse in Chelsea / Chelsea Community Church PRIDE-Themed Sunday Service / Pride Mural Invites Public Participation / […]
BY NYC MAYOR ERIC ADAMS | As New York City’s first openly dyslexic mayor, I know what it is like to not have the support I needed in school growing up. School was often difficult for me. I was scared of being called on by the teacher and my fellow students made fun of me. […]
Pride-Themed Community Murals Increase Their ‘Numbers’ as Public Paints Pride Month goes out in epic fashion on June 30th, as the annual NYC Pride March makes its way down Fifth Ave., into the Village, and up Seventh Ave. to its Chelsea dispersal point. All along the route, a righful sense of belonging is felt every […]
Here’s What’s Happening This Week In & Around Chelsea 10th Pct. Sector C Build the Block Meeting / Neighbors of 300 W. 21-22-23 Sts. Block Association Meeting / Fentanyl Test Strips & Narcan Kit Giveaway / Free Programming in Bella Abzug Park / MOMENTUM x Island Village: A Caribbean Pop-Up Market / Down to Earth […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Further information of substance continues to reside in the “forthcoming” category, following an April 14 presentation by the General Theologial Seminary (GTS). Promoted as a “presentation” open to the community, it had GTS President Markham alternately detailing and defending a possible 99-year leasing of GTS properties to the “Christian nonprofit” School […]
For seven nights and two mornings—from June 21 to 29—the Chelsea Music Festival offers concerts, conversations, and tastings. This year’s Festival, its 15th, is led by Artistic Directors Melinda Lee Masur and Ken-David Masur, and built around the theme “Connecting the Dots.” Event organizers say that theme will unfold as various activities on the schedule […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | The sidewalk scaffolding that long served as cover for open-air narcotics sales and a myriad of quality of life infractions including urination and intimidation may be gone—but the corner of West 21st Street and Eighth Avenue continues its reign of geographic infamy. Of particular concern is the loitering-outside, once-busted-for-fencing-inside cornershop, nearby […]
NYC Pride March to End & Disperse in Chelsea The route of June 30’s 2024 NYC Pride March will see participants and spectators along portions of Fifth and Sixth Avenues, as well as a section of Christopher Street that has it passing Stonewall Inn and Stonewall National Monument. But when it comes to crossing the […]
BY CHARLI BATTERSBY | The Tribeca Film Festival (now known as Tribeca Festival) began with co-founder Robert De Niro trying to help his neighborhood recover from 9/11. After 20+ years, the festival is acknowledging that this De Niro fellow seems to have made quite a few good movies over the years, and has devoted a […]