Writing the Apocalypse is a weekly series featuring the poems, essays, and recollections of Puma Perl, with subject matter influenced by her experiences as a NYC resident during the COVID-19 pandemic. Imprints | TEXT & PHOTOS BY PUMA PERL One year ago, I believed in bleach but was unsure about masks and said if I had masks I’d […]
BY TRAV S.D. | Having done several posts on Koster and Bial’s Music Hall during February’s Black History Month and Women’s History Month in March, we thought it might be useful and interesting to explore that venue, the entrepreneurs who founded it, and its role in American pop culture. John Koster and Adam Bial were a […]
BY ARTHUR SCHWARTZ | For the second time in a week, our country faces the horrors of a mass shooting—this time in Boulder, Colorado. In fact, there have been 20 or more such shootings in the US this year. Over the last few days, in Miami Beach, officers trying to reign in out-of-control Spring Breakers have […]
BY TRAV S.D. | For Women’s History Month, we will continue our series on famous vaudeville performers connected with the Tenderloin District. Now long defunct, the Tenderloin was a NYC neighborhood that at its furthest extent ran between 24th and 62nd Streets between 5th and 8th Avenues, thus overlapping with modern Chelsea. The Tenderloin was so-named […]
This Week’s “This Week in Chelsea” In Order of Appearance: W. Chelsea park’s new garden club / Hudson Guild seeks talent / Free tax prep / Sneak Peek: 3/31/2021, 10th Precinct Community Council meeting via Zoom New Garden Club at CCM-Seal Park | From a recent email comes this good news: “Several members of the newly […]
BY WINNIE McCROY | On the afternoon of Sat., March 13, candidates for City office reconvened via Zoom with concerned Chelsea tenants to respond to some of the questions about the health and safety of all New Yorkers during the extended lockdown regarding ventilation in residential housing, raised during the original Feb. 27 Zoom call […]
BY DONATHAN SALKALN | For four hundred and ten residents of Elliott and Fulton Houses, and their Chelsea neighbors, Sat., March 13 will be marked V-Day, as each received a victory over COVID-19, in the form of a Johnson and Johnson’s one-time-vaccine shot. The event was a joint effort between Walgreens (owner of Duane Reade […]
“Where do you see yourself at this time next year?” wasn’t always such a loaded question. Before COVID-19, forward thinkers could confidently project ahead 365 days to find themselves seated in a restaurant booked to capacity, rubbing shoulders with fellow theatergoers, or making good on the “If I’m elected” promises that swept you into office. […]
NOTE: Once thought lost forever due to file corruption, this recently recovered article was originally submitted to Chelsea Community News on September 13, 2020 and should be read with that in mind. BY REV. JEN MILLER WITH PHOTO S BY JOHN FOSTER THOMAS | On March 16, 2020, I was furloughed from my job at […]
BY BRIAN DONOVAN | Today’s featured dog is Macchia the Dalmatian. He is 1 year old, and fluent in English and Italian, just like his mother, Alice (not pronounced like the American “AL-ISS” but in Italian, so that it sounds like “ceviche.” I met both of them last weekend at Il Piccolo (508 W. 28th […]