Electing to Vote Early? Here’s What You Need to Know, Oct. 26-Nov. 3

Electing to Vote Early? Here’s What You Need to Know, Oct. 26-Nov. 3

On Tuesday, November 5,  New York City will vote in the  State and Federal General Election 2024, for United States Senator, President/Vice President of the United States,  Justice of the Supreme Court, Representative in Congress, Member of the Assembly, United States Senator, Judge of the Civil Court – County, State Senator, Judge of the Civil […]

This Week In & Around Chelsea: October 21-27, 2024

This Week In & Around Chelsea: October 21-27, 2024

Here’s What’s Happening (in order of appearance): THIS WEEK: Participatory Budgeting / High Line Halloween: Ghostly Gardens / Halloween Events at Verdi Cannabis / Halloween Spooktacular / Barktoberfest / Free Screening of Hocus Pocus / Spooky Streets Trick or Treat WEEKLY & ONGOING EVENTS:  Free Programming in Bella Abzug Park / Take the Manhattan Community […]

Halloween Happenings Here And Now & On the Horizon

Halloween Happenings Here And Now & On the Horizon

Your Eerily Eclectic, Frighteningly Fabulous, Scary-Good Collection of Halloween-Themed Activities Appear in This Spookily Sequential Order: The Meatpacking District’s Treats in the Streets / Chelsea Green Park’s Hocus Pocus Harvest Block Party / High Line Halloween: Ghostly Gardens / Halloween Events at Verdi Cannabis / Barktoberfest / Spooky Streets Trick or Treat / Pier 57’s […]

This Weekend In & Around Chelsea: October 18-20, 2024

This Weekend In & Around Chelsea: October 18-20, 2024

Here’s What’s Happening (in order of appearance): THIS WEEK: Plantings at Clement Clarke Moore Park / Stoop Sale / Treats in the Streets / Chelsea Green Halloween /   WEEKLY & ONGOING EVENTS:  Free Programming in Bella Abzug Park / Take the Manhattan Community Board 4 (MCB4) Annual District Needs Survey / Music & Art […]

City Council Calendars Oct. 22 for Public Input on City of Yes: Zoning for Housing Opportunity

City Council Calendars Oct. 22 for Public Input on City of Yes: Zoning for Housing Opportunity

BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Calling New York City’s current zoning laws “outdated, restrictive, and complicated’ patchwork quilt that “limits opportunities to create new homes and make those that do get built more expensive.” Vowing they’ve got a viable means “to build a little more housing in every neighborhood, the mayoral administration’s City of Yes: Zoning […]

Participatory Budgeting Begins the ‘Roundabout’ Way—With Brainstorms on Broadway

Participatory Budgeting Begins the ‘Roundabout’ Way—With Brainstorms on Broadway

REPORTED BY KATHRYN STOMSVIK with PHOTOS BY CHRISTIAN MILES | Monday, September 30, 2024, just before dusk: A violet glow illuminated the rush of Times Square traffic passing by 227 West 42nd Street’s Todd Haimes Theatre—a 1918-built venue whose neo-renaissance style was restored in 2000 by Roundabout Theatre Company. Inside, on the fifth floor of […]

On Seventh Ave., New Store Brings Better ‘World’ to Former Smoke Shop Space

On Seventh Ave., New Store Brings Better ‘World’ to Former Smoke Shop Space

After a years-long series of small business closures left over a half-dozen storefront spaces to remain shuttered for months at a time, the two-block stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 20th and 22nd Streets is experiencing a retail renaissance. A reasonably priced Ranjha Cleaners and a very cool addition to the Ralph’s Famous Italian Ices […]

This Week In & Around Chelsea: October 7-13, 2024

This Week In & Around Chelsea: October 7-13, 2024

Here’s What’s Happening (in order of appearance): THIS WEEK: West Side Shred Day / Outdoor Screening of Beetlejuice /  WEEKLY & ONGOING EVENTS: Open Call for Participants in Hudson Guild Gallery’s 26th Annual Community Art Jam / Free Programming in Bella Abzug Park /  Music & Art at Verdi Cannabis / Down to Earth Farmers […]