Creative, witty, and dedicated, Chelsea resident Laura Solimene has been giving her time and talents to support the community engagement efforts of the West 400 Block Association. Such volunteerism certainly merits a little special recognition, perhaps even a gesture of appreciation. Flowers are always nice—but what if she’s allergic? It’s got to be something that […]
How very appropriate that the Chelsea West 200 Block Association’s recently updated logo (seen on the left) is anchored by a towering tree whose thick trunk implies deep roots. As one of the neighborhood’s very first block associations, West 200 was instrumental in establishing and inspiring the practice of lining Chelsea’s side streets with the […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | A professional dog walker’s habit of scoping out new surroundings in the service of protecting his furry charges appears to have done just that, during Tony the Dog Walker’s very first visit to Chelsea Park Dog Run. Joining him on July 31’s opening day were Lucky, a white lab, and Pika, […]
BY MICHAEL MUSTO | Spoiler alert! Yes, the car flies! And it does so much more dexterously than in the lame 2005 Broadway adaptation of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. In fact, the car is a DeLorean that lights up, turns, zooms, spins, and eventually levitates over the orchestra seats, then turns upside down. With people […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | What goes round and round, draws young and old with its distinctive calliope sound, and is capable of transporting grown adults back to a time when they couldn’t wait to ride a horse whose trajectory was more up and down than straight ahead? If you said, “A carousel,” you’re either good […]
BY JOANNE A. SINOVOI | The first thing I noticed when I walked inside La Chilaquería New York (139 W. 28th St. btw. 6th & 7th Aves.) was the beautiful flowers. Although I live only a few blocks away, this is not a restaurant I found by myself—neighbors told me I must check it out, and […]
BY EILEEN STUKANE | A chartreuse T-shirted workman is unwrapping a sandwich lunch while sitting under a red umbrella-shaded table on cobblestoned Gansevoort Plaza, between Hudson Street and Ninth Ave. At another similarly shaded table, a man with the white sleeves of his shirt rolled up is working on a computer. At another, two women […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Finally, the sprinkling of good news we’ve been waiting for: After closing in October of 2022 due to danger posed by the partial collapse of a basement wall, the sugar sanctuary that stood near the corner of 14th and Seventh for almost six decades is about to come full circle. Granted, […]
BY MICHAEL MUSTO | Who says the nightlife is dead? It’s alive and well and living in the form of a musical about Imelda Marcos. An immersive show about the onetime Filipina First Lady, with music by David Byrne and Fatboy Slim (based on their concept album) and additional music by Tom Gandey and J Pardo, Here Lies Love […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Not a week goes by where we don’t feature a public meeting accessible via Zoom, a local brick and mortar location, or both. Most of them are recorded for posterity and posted online for perpetual (usually free) access at your convenience. And so we come to this—the debut of an occasional […]