Build the Block Meeting Focuses on Crime-Ridden West Chelsea Corridor

Build the Block Meeting Focuses on Crime-Ridden West Chelsea Corridor

BY WINNIE McCROY | Community members came together at Penn South on the evening of August 20 for a live meeting of the Build the Block coalition. The event brought NYPD’s Neighborhood Coordination Officers (NCOs) together with locals concerned about the safety of Chelsea and Midtown South. Many voiced concerns regarding the problems with petty […]

10th Precinct Resumes COVID-19-Cancelled Public Info Meetings

10th Precinct Resumes COVID-19-Cancelled Public Info Meetings

From protests to package thefts to property damage to the four Phases of reopening, it’s been, to put it mildly, an unusually eventful summer. Throughout, at a time when accurate information was often as scarce as it was specific, Chelsea Community News has been providing straight-from-the-source Q&A sessions with the leader of our local NYPD […]

CRDC’s Black Lives Matter Conversation Emphasized Equity, Education

CRDC’s Black Lives Matter Conversation Emphasized Equity, Education

BY DONATHAN SALKALN | Open to the public, interactive, and held online via Zoom, the July 16 meeting of the Chelsea Reform Democratic Club (CRDC) brought together four powerful, independent voices intimate to the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. Co-hosted by CRDC Exec VP Charles Bayor and CRDC President Mindy Rosier-Rayburn (who also served as […]

The Truth About My Love/Hate Relationship with Zoom

The Truth About My Love/Hate Relationship with Zoom

BY MICHAEL MUSTO | When the COVID-19 crisis started escalating in March, I packed up and moved my entire life—to Zoom. That marvelous app is sort of like a big conference call, but it’s visual too. It’s the kind of incredibly clever thing we dreamed about when growing up (“Someday there’ll be a telephone where […]

Chelsea Grit Makes Council District 3 Clean-Up Day a Sweeping Success

Chelsea Grit Makes Council District 3 Clean-Up Day a Sweeping Success

BY RANIA RICHARDSON | Service to the community begets more—a truism for several local residents who answered one particular call to action. On Saturday, August 1, New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson (whose area of coverage includes Chelsea) held a “Council District 3 Clean-Up Day” for 10 areas within his purview, from Churchill Square […]

Reopened High Line Reinvented as Pandemic-Era Respite

Reopened High Line Reinvented as Pandemic-Era Respite

TEXT AND PHOTOS BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Having made the right call to close its gates in mid-March, just before New York City became the country’s coronavirus epicenter, the High Line remained off-limits for the next four months. On July 16, it reopened—no worse for the wear, and recalibrated to resonate with a world below […]

New and Recycled Dances and Talking from All Around the World

New and Recycled Dances and Talking from All Around the World

BY ELIZABETH ZIMMER | The coronavirus may have retreated from our city, but its fallout, in shuttered theaters and unemployed performers of every description, lingers in our atmosphere. Festivals that once lured thousands are furloughed or, at best, transformed into video compendia of past triumphs and Zoom experiments. Many of the videos on view take […]

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