BY MICHAEL MUSTO | COVID lockdown in ’20 was important for safety reasons, but it also managed to serve a personal purpose for me: Since so many of my NYC friends had moved out of town through the years and were continuing to flee, it allowed me the chance to connect with absent pals via […]
What a difference a week makes: We publish this photo essay on the cold and rainy day of May 7, 2022–but seven days ago, on April 30, it was strictly blue skies, posters for the wall, short-sleeved shirts for warm weather to come, and fresh, hot, as-easy-to-walk-with-as-it-is-easy-to-walk-off food of every imaginable iteration. Where else could […]
BY LAYLA LAW-GISIKO (candidate, NYS Assembly, District 75) | On Tuesday, May 3, more than a thousand of us rallied at Foley Square to protest the egregious draft Supreme Court decision penned by Justice Alito that would gut the country’s landmark 1973 decision protecting abortion rights. It was inspiring to join so many in the […]
BY SAMUEL A. TURVEY (Chairperson, ReThinkNYC) | New York State Governor Kathy Hochul wants to finance the renovation of Penn Station by demolishing the neighborhood around it and erecting a forest of tax-generating supertalls (corporate towers whose height exceeds that in the current and proposed surrounding area). Now we learn that the Federal share of funding for […]
In This Week’s “THIS WEEK IN CHELSEA” Stargazing on the High Line / Manhattan Community Board 4’s Full Board Meeting / Ice Theatre of New York / Councilmember Erik Bottcher’s Free Housing Clinic / Chelsea Green Spring Celebration / Curb Usage Study Stargazing on the High Line, Tuesdays Between Dusk and 9:45pm | Members of the Amateur […]
In This Week’s “THIS WEEK IN CHELSEA” 8th Ave. Street Fair / The 1oth Precinct Community Council / The Eagle NYC Presents Continuum / Stargazing on the High Line / Saturday, April 30, 11am-6pm on Eighth Ave., btw. 14th & 23d Street: Street Fair | That crisp but comfortable wisp of wind accompanied by warm rays […]
BY WINNIE McCROY | A hardscrabble band of Chelsea tenants snatched victory from the jaws of defeat when, 30 minutes before a planned protest, their landlord agreed to the repairs they’ve requested for nearly two years. About 20 people gathered on the morning of Thursday, April 21 at 225 W. 23rd St./220 W. 24th St. […]
BY MICHAEL MUSTO | What’s the point of going to a nightclub if you’re not going to get photographed? Part of the fun of going out is showing your most flamboyant self to other fabbies and happily flashing your teeth for the camera. Through the years, there have been a lot of expert photographers who […]
Just shy of one week since Easter Sunday, the once-overflowing baskets packed with eggs, peeps, and chocolate have been picked over until all that’s left is the visually appealing but thoroughly inedible colorful plastic straw. Luckily, for those who have a sweet tooth for drag, there’s an Easter leftover sure to fill that empty hole in your. […]
BY ELIZABETH ZIMMER | Notable as much for its live music as for its deeply committed dancing, the first program of the Limón Dance Company’s spring season at the Joyce Theater spans 96 years of choreographic exploration. Beginning with the stately sweep of Doris Humphrey’s 1928 Air for the G String, a female quintet that […]