Thursday, March 12, 5:30pm-8pm: Women’s History Month celebration at the American Museum of Natural History | Join the office of NYC Comptroller Scott M. Stringer and the American Museum of Natural History in celebrating Women’s History Month. All are welcome. Thurs., March 12 at Cullman Hall of the Universe (200 Central Park West; W. 81st […]
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BY DONATHAN SALKALN | The population of New York City is climbing toward 9 million residents. The tourism stats for 2018, 65.2 million, marked its ninth year of consecutive growth. Luxury apartment buildings, office towers, tech companies, and college campuses are clogging our skylines and jamming our neighborhoods like never before. Like a speeding cargo […]
February/March Lent-Themed Activities at St. Peter’s Chelsea | Tues., Feb. 25, Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper: Butter, syrup, bacon and more! Get ready for Lent, with the St. Peter’s family, for their annual Pancake Supper. Enjoy your favorite breakfast food before you give it all up! RSVP via sending an email to rsvp@stpeterschelsea.org. Then, on Wed., […]
Full Disclosure: The below info was inspired by (a less generous person might say, “lifted wholesale from”) Manhattan Community Board 4’s Upcoming Community Events Newsletter of Feb. 20, 2020. To subscribe to that Newsletter, click here. The New High Line Postal Station | Snail mail fans, rejoice: A new postal station opened on Tues., Feb. […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Chelsea’s own Burt Lazarin, a London Terrace resident since 1977, was honored with not one, but two, Proclamations extolling his work as former Chair of Manhattan Community Board 4 (CB4), and so very much more. That he’s worthy of such recognition should come as no surprise to those familiar with his […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Confrontation risks escalation; windows have locks, so use them; keep your valuables in plain sight, and out of the sight of would-be thieves. Those savvy public safety nuggets were the marquee takeaways, at Jan. 29’s 10th Precinct Community Council meeting. About a dozen local residents, joined by an equal number of […]
Saturday, February 8, 11am-1pm: Reusable Bag Giveaway | New Yorkers use 9.37 billion carryout bags per year, the vast majority of which are not recycled. That’s why beginning on March 1, state law will prohibit businesses from distributing plastic carryout bags to customers. On Saturday, from 11am to 1pm, NYC Council Speaker Corey Johnson’s team will be at […]
BY PAMELA WOLFF | Located at 346 W. 20th St. (btw. 8th & 9th Aves.), St. Peter’s Chelsea—the Episcopal church founded in 1831 by Clement Clarke Moore, architect of the Chelsea neighborhood—has been running a food pantry for many years. In 2019, they distributed food to 32,559 clients. Of those, there were 1,359 children and […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Most people’s minds conjure “the water” (aka the Hudson River), when asked to name Chelsea’s westernmost point. But when the conversation turns to its crosstown counterpart, there’s no clear winner. That’s what we found, during some informal, totally unscientific polling of local residents and business owners. People were split pretty much […]