BY MICHAEL MUSTO | I’m not being alarmist when I tell you that an overabundance of clichés is destroying our culture and if we don’t stop it, we’re all going to become avocado toast. I implore you all to stop parroting something just because you saw it on Twitter. Don’t echo a phrase just because you […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | In another signifiant sign that’s helping to define what we mean by the “post-pandemic era,” all of the public meetings coming out of Chelsea’s 10th Precinct have made the transition from online Zoom forums to a time when small meeting rooms or sweeping outdoor spaces will serve as host venues. This […]
Halloween Block Party: Sunday, October 22, 10am-2pm In & Around Chelsea Green Park (140 W. 20th St. btw. 6th & 7th Aves.) | Friends of Chelsea Green’s annual Halloween Block Party is a feast of fun featuring free crafts and activities in the park, Trick or Treating along the street at nearly 50 vendor tables, […]
TEXT BY SCOTT STIFFLER and PHOTOS COURTESY OF CHELSEA MARKET | Foodies with a fondness for the farm to table model flocked to Chelsea Market in the early evening of September 13 to feast on a smorgasbord of fresh sights, smells, textures, and tastes. Nearly 3,000 attendees traversed the iconic venue’s long and winding pathways, […]
NOTE: On October 13, the Toy Association announced that the Toy Fair will be staying in New York City: ‘While we aimed to adapt to the perceived shifts in our industry, the announcement of that change was met with strong feelings of tradition and enduring memories of toy business conducted in New York… It has become abundantly […]
BY EILEEN STUKANE | Murals of color pop, seem to speak to each other, across West 37th Street between Ninth and 10th Aves. Compartmentalized square sections, welded together to create block-long walls of steel no higher than an average adult, had once brought a dreariness to this street, in a neighborhood where residents already lived […]
BY NYC MAYOR ERIC ADAMS | Public safety is our administration’s top priority, and keeping New Yorkers safe from the growing threat of fentanyl is a core part of that mission. All of us have heard about the danger fentanyl poses to our children and our communities. Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that is approximately 50 […]
Here’s What’s Happening In & Around Chelsea Pick of the Week: St. Peter’s Chelsea Blessing of the Animals / CB4’s Waterfront, Parks & Environment Committee Meets / Community Cleanups / CB4 District Needs Survey / Free Paper Shredding Day / District 3 Participatory Budgeting Meetings / UPCOMING: Halloween Block Party at Chelsea Green Park; Senior Resource Fair […]
PHOTOS & TEXT BY CHRISTIAN MILES (click on his name to visit his website) | Have you ever found yourself walking down the street, seeing something amiss and asking, “Why isn’t the City doing something about this?” Imagine if we could put our money where our mouth is and use taxpayer dollars to change things for the […]
BY NYC MAYOR ERIC ADAMS | Our administration recently proposed the most ambitious pro-housing zoning changes in the history of New York City—changes that would rewrite the wrongs of the past and clear the way toward building the kinds of housing New York City so desperately needs. The 1961 Zoning Resolution drastically changed the way our […]