BY ELIZABETH ZIMMER | The bad news: We’ve been shut in for months, and we’re feeling shack-wacky. The good news: If you can read this, you have access to an astonishing variety of dance, theater, music, and film—much of it free, right on your computer or phone. Presenters from all over the city, the country, […]
BY MICHAEL MUSTO | It’s usually a misbegotten idea to compare tragedies, but having been through other huge crises before the COVID pandemic, I find it inevitable. And I can’t shake the memory of how, after 9/11, New York became a traumatized but somehow much warmer place than before. In the wake of the horror […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | “I would tell them that I understand what they’re feeling, that it’s a perfectly valid response to the way the NYPD responded that night,” said Manhattan Community Board 4 (CB4) Chair Lowell Kern, regarding the anger and abandonment felt by Chelsea residents who watched as businesses, including Wine on Nine (177 […]
BY HIBA SOHAIL | Business Improvement Districts are tasked with funding projects within their boundaries—and more often than not, these are projects that merchants and community members deem inadequately performed by the City. With the advent of COVID-19, many BIDs saw their public programming halted due to the necessities of social distancing. BIDs in Manhattan […]
June Committee Meetings of Manhattan Community Board 4 (CB4) | Each CB4 meets monthly, which serve as a prelude to matters discussed, when CB4 holds its full board meeting on the first Wednesday of the month. On this week’s calendar: Wednesday, June 10, 6:30pm, the Clinton/Hell’s Kitchen Land Use Committee meets. On their agenda: Planning […]
BY HIBA SOHAIL | For the second consecutive month, COVID-19’s social distancing precautions compelled Manhattan Community Board 4 (CB4) to hold their monthly full board meeting in the digital realm, via Zoom. The Wednesday, June 3 meeting started with a somber statement about white privilege. CB4 Chair Lowell Kern told those in attendance that not […]
BY DONATHAN SALKALN | For well over 40 days and 40 nights, a disease rained down upon New York City, like no other pandemic in memory. Amidst the downpour, there wasn’t a simple solution, such as loading our elders and vulnerable onto an ark and sailing them off to safety. It has been a relentless […]
BY NEW YORK STATE SENATOR BRAD HOYLMAN | I want to make sure you hear directly from me about the steps we’re taking in the State Legislature to combat police harassment and racial discrimination. The murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis reminds us all of the police brutality directed towards Black people, who are three […]
TEXT AND PHOTOS BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Add to the now-familiar sounds of sirens, helicopters, and the righteously angry chants of protesters marching down Seventh Avenue, the sounds of broken glass swept off sidewalks and nails driven into plywood. That was the new aural normal on Tuesday, June 2, 2020, when Chelsea merchants boarded up […]
Note: This June 1, 2020 letter is presented here as an opinion piece, with the author’s permission. T0: David A. Correa, Interim Executive Director, Heritage of Pride From: New York State Senator Brad Hoylman Dear David: Today, as Pride Month begins and protests for racial justice sweep the nation, I’m calling on Heritage of Pride […]