Here’s What’s Happening This Week In & Around Chelsea Meet My Friend Speed Dating / Free Programming in Bella Abzug Park / The Rhythms of Carnival: A Cuban Musical Adventure / The Sweat Sessions / HYHK Alliance Needs Assessment Survey / Food Bag Program: Fresh Food for Seniors / Down to Earth Farmers Market Chelsea […]
Note: This look at Chelsea Green’s history incorporates previous reporting by Kristen Ancillotti, Mark Nimar, & Scott Stiffler. Email Friends of Chelsea Green at ChelseaGreenPark@gmail.com to join their mailing list. On Instagram: @chelseagreennyc. BY SCOTT STIFFLER | It was 5 years ago this week—July 25, 2019—when the photo seen directly above was taken. Seconds later, […]
BY MICHAEL MUSTO | Still on Facebook? Join the dwindling club. But even though we’re basically dinosaurs roaming the social landscape in search of a branch to nibble on, there are still rules as to how to behave there. Let me make it easy for you. Here’s what NOT to do as a Facebook user. […]
Here’s What’s Happening This Week In & Around Chelsea Manhattan Community Board 4’s Full Board Meeting / Free Affordable Housng Workshop / 300 W. 21st 22nd 23rd Streets Block Association’s Neighborhood Meet & Greet / Rooftop Films Screens Penn F-ing Station / Free Programming in Bella Abzug Park / The Sweat Sessions / HYHK Alliance […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Imbuing his moody, muted, often cinematically composed depictions of city living with a sense of both detachment and curiosity, the artist in question seems reluctant to tell all; or anything, really, save for a few clues written in the language of shadows, light, and faces focused on avoiding eye contact. It’s […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | After nearly a decade’s worth of members moving away and other means of matriculation left its Board of Directors so sparsely populated that the gathering of two practically constituted a quorum, a repopulated and robust incarnation of the 300 West 18th/19th Streets Block Association (18/19) emerged in 2018. Ready to advocate […]
Here’s What’s Happening This Week In & Around Chelsea Free Programming in Bella Abzug Park / The Sweat Sessions / HYHK Alliance Needs Assessment Survey / Food Bag Program: Fresh Food for Seniors / Down to Earth Farmers Market Chelsea / The Hudson Yards Hell’s Kitchen Alliance Presents, Through October, Free Programming in Bella […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Comedy great Kevin McDonald earned that apt description decades ago, for his work with The Kids in the Hall—the 5-man, 80s/90s Canadian sketch troupe literally unearthed by Amazon Prime last year for an all-new, 8-episode run. A well-deserved second season continues to elude, but McDonald gathers no moss waiting for it. […]
BY ELIZABETH ZIMMER Pilobolus: July 23-August 11 at The Joyce Theater | This unique, Connecticut-based ensemble—founded at Dartmouth College in 1971 and sometimes called “the dance equivalent of a rock band”—turned 50 on the cusp of the pandemic, so it’s stretching out the anniversary celebration, returning to the Joyce for a three-week season. Two different […]
SUPPORT SMALL BUSINESSES A “Welcome to the Neighborhood” Q&A With Ralph’s Famous Italian Ices and Ice Cream 196 Seventh Ave. (btw. W. 21st & 22nd Sts.) Open Sunday through Thursday, 11:30am-11pm & Friday/Saturday, 11:30am-11:30pm To visit their website, Click Here When they breezed into our part of town on Wednesday, June 12, Ralph’s Famous Italian […]