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Your Guide to Early Voting & November 4’s Election Day

The General Election is Tuesday, November 4–but you don’t have…

This Week In & Around Chelsea: October 20-27, 2025

Here’s What’s Happening This Week (in order of appearance): Power…

This Week In & Around Chelsea: October 13-19, 2025

Here’s What’s Happening This Week and Beyond (in order of…

Guest Opinion: Save Chelsea Calls Out Nadler’s ‘Dishonesty and Cowardice’ on NYCHA Plan

October 7, 2025 Congressman Jerry Nadler 201 Varick Street,…

This Week In & Around Chelsea: October 6-12, 2025

Here’s What’s Happening This Week and Beyond (in order of…

Creamline Celebrates 10 Years in Chelsea Market with New Look, Classic Tastes

Comfort food of the highest order, with staying power: That’s…

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Your Guide to Early Voting & November 4’s Election Day

The General Election is Tuesday, November 4–but you don’t have to wait until then to weigh in. In fact, you don’t…

Posted on October 20, 2025No Comment

This Week In & Around Chelsea: October 20-27, 2025

Here’s What’s Happening This Week (in order of appearance): Power Ply at the Polls / Lunch and Learn: What’s on my…

Posted on October 20, 2025No Comment

This Week In & Around Chelsea: October 13-19, 2025

Here’s What’s Happening This Week and Beyond (in order of appearance): Participatory Budgeting Kickoff / Making Gay History Live Fall Events…

Posted on October 13, 2025No Comment

Guest Opinion: Save Chelsea Calls Out Nadler’s ‘Dishonesty and Cowardice’ on NYCHA Plan

October 7, 2025 Congressman Jerry Nadler 201 Varick Street, Suite 669 New York, NY 10014 Dear Congressman Nadler: In your…

Posted on October 12, 2025No Comment

This Week In & Around Chelsea: October 6-12, 2025

Here’s What’s Happening This Week and Beyond (in order of appearance): Happier Hour / Making Gay History Live Fall Events /…

Posted on October 6, 2025No Comment

Arts

Provincetown Report: Who Rules The Drag Roost in The Queer Resort?

BY MICHAEL MUSTO | Provincetown, Massachusetts is a mixed (but…

Posted on August 12, 2025No Comment

‘American Sublime’ for a Limited Time: The Whitney’s Amy Sherald Exhibition Closes August 10

BY TIARA BROWNIE | Amy Sherald is an American realist…

Posted on August 1, 2025No Comment

With Interviews & Reviews, Pizzoli’s ‘Passionate Outlier’ Captures the Essence of Gay Writers & Allies

BY MICK MEENAN | The Stonewall Uprising that followed a…

Posted on July 30, 2025No Comment

The Day Draws Near for the Dawn of ‘An Evening With Yuhua’

This year’s final full month of summer is set to…

Posted on July 29, 2025No Comment

This Week in Chelsea

LGBTQ+

On Steps of City Hall, ‘Trans Joy’ Celebrated Tangible Advances Backed by 2026 Budget

CHARLI BATTERSBY | At the end of June’s Pride Month, the New York City Council adopted the upcoming budget for 2026. Among the $112 billion dollar budget are…

Posted on August 22, 2025No Comment

Provincetown Report: Who Rules The Drag Roost in The Queer Resort?

BY MICHAEL MUSTO | Provincetown, Massachusetts is a mixed (but heavily queer) resort town with lobsters, beaches, and lots of tucking and plucking, the prime season running through…

Posted on August 12, 2025No Comment

‘Wonderlanadu’ Mixed Burlesque & Rollerskate for a Perfect Date Night

BY CHARLI BATTERSBY | There are quite a few hip places clustered together in Bushwick, so that a dedicated adventurer could plan out an evening of carefully-timed venue-hoping.…

Posted on August 11, 2025No Comment

Of Press Cards and Corsets

BY CHARLI BATTERSBY | I felt pretty smug as I approached City Hall on the late afternoon of June 9, 2025. I had RSVP’d for a Pride Month…

Posted on August 6, 2025No Comment

Opinion

Community Op-Ed: Delivering for Our Students

BY NYC MAYOR ERIC ADAMS | I always feel that September, not January 1st, is when the new…

Posted on October 13, 2025No Comment

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Theater

Toy Fair 2025 Touted the Many Must-Have Playthings of Tomorrow

BY CHARLI BATTERSBY | It has been a year…

Posted on March 7, 2025

‘Treats in the Streets’ Made Meatpacking District the Destination for Costumed Kids & Dressed-Up Dogs

TEXT BY SCOTT STIFFLER / PHOTOS BY IRI GRECO,…

Posted on October 25, 2024

Willed Into Existence by Persistent Insistence, Chelsea Green Park Passes the Five-Year Mark

Note: This look at Chelsea Green’s history incorporates previous…

Posted on July 28, 2024

July 12-14, West Side Fest is a ‘Free-for-All’ at a Who’s Who of Vaunted Chelsea Venues

NOTE: Rain plans are up to each organization. Check…

Posted on July 11, 2024

On Steps of City Hall, ‘Trans Joy’ Celebrated Tangible Advances Backed by 2026 Budget

CHARLI BATTERSBY | At the end of June’s Pride…

Posted on August 22, 2025

Provincetown Report: Who Rules The Drag Roost in The Queer Resort?

BY MICHAEL MUSTO | Provincetown, Massachusetts is a mixed…

Posted on August 12, 2025

Good Work Grows on You: Scenes from the Chelsea Garden Club Tour

PHOTOS & CAPTIONS BY MISSY ADAMS | Last week,…

Posted on September 1, 2021

Community Contacts

PLEASE EXCUSE OUR APPEARANCE (or more accurately, our lack…

Posted on April 21, 2019

This Week & Beyond, Multiple Opportunities to Meet with Chelsea’s 10th & 13th Precincts

BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Members of the general public with questions…

Posted on October 17, 2022

Mask Distribution, Graffiti Mitigation Among 10th Precinct’s COVID-Era Efforts

Normally held on the last Wednesday of the month,…

Posted on May 28, 2020

10th Precinct Leader Notes Pandemic’s Impact on Protocols, Public Safety, Crime Stats

Normally held on the last Wednesday of the month,…

Posted on April 29, 2020

10th Precinct Community Council Notes Uptick in Robbery, Larceny Crimes

BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Confrontation risks escalation; windows have…

Posted on February 7, 2020

Provincetown Report: Who Rules The Drag Roost in The Queer Resort?

BY MICHAEL MUSTO | Provincetown, Massachusetts is a mixed…

Posted on August 12, 2025

Report: Drama Desk Awards Bring Out The Broadway Glitterati

ChelseaCommunityNews.com (CCNews) is an independent online newspaper providing news,…

Posted on June 2, 2025

REVIEW ROUNDUP: ‘Dead Outlaw,’ ‘Pirates! The Penzance Musical’ & ‘Stranger Things: The First Shadow’ Take Over Broadway

ChelseaCommunityNews.com (CCNews) is an independent online newspaper providing news,…

Posted on April 27, 2025

Three Cheers for Robert Prichard and Surf Reality

BY TRAV S.D, (Reprinted with author’s permission from its…

Posted on March 20, 2025

Theater

Provincetown Report: Who Rules The Drag Roost in The Queer Resort?

BY MICHAEL MUSTO | Provincetown, Massachusetts is a mixed (but heavily queer) resort town with lobsters, beaches, and lots of tucking and plucking, the…

Posted on August 12, 2025No Comment

Report: Drama Desk Awards Bring Out The Broadway Glitterati

ChelseaCommunityNews.com (CCNews) is an independent online newspaper providing news, arts, events, and opinion content to Manhattan’s Chelsea community and its adjacent areas. That free…

Posted on June 2, 2025No Comment

REVIEW ROUNDUP: ‘Dead Outlaw,’ ‘Pirates! The Penzance Musical’ & ‘Stranger Things: The First Shadow’ Take Over Broadway

ChelseaCommunityNews.com (CCNews) is an independent online newspaper providing news, arts, events, and opinion content to Manhattan’s Chelsea community and its adjacent areas. That free…

Posted on April 27, 2025No Comment

Three Cheers for Robert Prichard and Surf Reality

BY TRAV S.D, (Reprinted with author’s permission from its original publication here on Travalanche March 11 is the birthday of downtown impresario Robert Prichard,…

Posted on March 20, 2025No Comment

Community Activities

Your Guide to Early Voting & November 4’s Election Day

The General Election is Tuesday, November 4–but you don’t have to wait until then to weigh in. In fact, you don’t have to wait much longer. Early voting,…

Posted on October 20, 2025No Comment

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