Editorial Snapshot: The Bermuda Triangle of Sports
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My Wife’s Free Online Shipping Order Traveled 2,577 Miles
BY DONATHAN SALKALN | There needs to be a carbon tax on buying online. Large corporations such as Walmart and Amazon have deep pockets with the goal in putting our local businesses out-of-business, at the expense of our environment. There needs to be a carbon tax on products ordered online that are delivered in individually […]
Where Good and Evil Rest Peacefully, Together
BY DONATHAN SALKALN | There have been a lot of protests of statues that are scattered in prominent places across our nation. To many people, these statues represent the courage, spirit, and conviction of our country’s forefathers, who fought for ideals of freedom—yet to others, these statues celebrate the sheer ugliness of humanity. There are […]
My CoviDiary: The July Entries
EDITOR’S NOTE: Below, find the latest diary entry, then other July content. Click here for the June entries. Click here for the May entries. Click here for the April entries. Click here for all March entries . My CoviDiary is reprinted, with the author’s permission, from its original publication via maxburbank.wordpress.com. Oh, and by the […]
Unpacking Brown Boy Misogyny
Context: This past week, hundreds of brown girls in NYC (some anonymously, some not) shared their sexual assault stories on Instagram and Twitter, and the culprits were all brown boys (South Asian descent, mainly). Chelsea Community News’ Summer 2020 intern and contributing reporter, Hiba Sohail, wrote an essay unpacking brown boy misogyny for her blog, […]
An Open Letter to NYC Council Speaker Corey Johnson, on Public School Safety, Funding, Challenges
Note: The following is a June 25, 2020 letter sent to New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, reprinted with the author’s permission. Dear Speaker Johnson, I know you are very busy, but please take a moment and read this. As you know I’m a proud public school special education teacher. I have been teaching […]
New Broken Window Policy Adds To An Urgency of Exodus
BY DONATHAN SALKALN | The exodus of city residents has already begun. With the combination of working remotely now the norm, the fear of future deadly diseases, and the recent civil unrest that included widespread looting to vulnerable sections of New York City, including Chelsea, people are moving to the suburbs like never before. It […]
A Return to Gridlock as the City Reopens?
BY CHRISTINE BERTHET, CO-FOUNDER OF CHEKPEDS | The COVID-19 quarantine has made us all aware of how wonderful New York can be: How clean and fresh the air has been, how quiet without gridlock blocking EMS, and without too many cars! Most significantly, there were no pedestrian fatalities in the last two months in Manhattan[1]. […]
Five Symptoms of the Crime Virus
BY DONATHAN SALKALN | Crime is an infectious disease, and should be treated on the scale of the Coronavirus outbreak. A citywide emergency should have been declared after a Barnard College student, Tessa Majors, was murdered on December 11, 2019. The horrific crime in Manhattan’s Morningside Park, allegedly by youths aged 13 and 14 years […]
A City’s Progressiveness is Lost Without Housing Support for All
BY JOHN MUDD, PRESIDENT, MIDTOWN SOUTH COMMUNITY COUNCIL | There are 62,000 plus homeless people hiding out, tucked away, pushed aside, and sprinkled about our city of New York. At least that’s what’s on record. But if you ask the professionals—the ones on the front lines—they will tell you that the numbers are much higher. […]