Ryder Kessler, running for NYS Assembly in District 66, has long had roots in the neighborhoods he now hopes to represent. Photo: Jeff Zorabedian Ryder Kessler Campaigns For Housing Solutions, Effective Streets And Safety When Ryder Kessler talks about his adoration of New York and Assembly District 66, in which he has spent much of his life,... Home 18 May 2022 | 01:03
Congressional candidate Suraj Patel has devoted his campaign efforts to the Upper East Side as of late. Photo courtesy of Suraj Patel’s campaign Districts — and Campaigns — In Limbo The world is in a troubling state of tumult, according to third-time congressional candidate Suraj Patel — think crime rates... News 13 May 2022 | 03:32
Crime Watch Police Seek Four Young Muggers According to police, at 9:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 5, a 20-year-old woman and her 18-year-old... Crime Watch 13 May 2022 | 11:37
Crime Watch Food Cart Vendor Arrested after Assaulting Another A 32-year-old man from Jersey City told police that at 3:45 p.m. on Sunday,... Crime Watch 22 Apr 2022 | 11:16
Chelsea Factory Resident Artists Leonardo Sandoval and Gregory Richardson rehearsing with their company, Music From the Sole. Photo: Joe Carrotta Chelsea Factory Welcomes Artists In From a garage built to house factory equipment in 1914, to a photographer’s studio, a dance company, then events venue, the... City Arts 08 Apr 2022 | 01:43
Headmaster Kim Smith greets students as they arrive for classes at Xavier High School in Chelsea. Photo courtesy of Xavier High School A Year in Leadership at Xavier High Kim Smith’s days are full. “One of the things I started doing my first week, and I’ve kept it up, I greet the boys when they... News 01 Apr 2022 | 04:57
Traci Johnson with “Freeform” soft sculpture. Photo: Kahdeem Prosper Traci Johnson’s ‘Safe Space’ The annual Affordable Art Fair made a return to Chelsea last week, bringing mazes of gallery booths to the Metropolitan Pavilion... News 27 Mar 2022 | 10:48
Karl Haendel, installation view of “Praise New York” at Mitchell-Innes Nash. Photo courtesy of the artist and Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York An Homage to NYC’s Religious Leaders Artist Karl Haendel has been thinking about the idea of portraiture for a number of years, but as a contemporary artist,... City Arts 25 Mar 2022 | 03:01
The Red Door Place at The Church of the Village. Photo: Ava Manson The Door That Stayed Open During Lockdown By just one year after NYC declared the pandemic a state of emergency on March 12, 2020, the number of New Yorkers experiencing... News 09 Mar 2022 | 03:39
A map from December 2021, released by the office of then-Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer in partnership with BetaNYC, shows delivery service company locations in Manhattan. Photo: Gale Brewer’s Office How Fast Do You Need Your Groceries? Just the other week, Council Member Gale Brewer stepped foot inside an Upper West Side outpost of Gopuff, a company from... News 26 Feb 2022 | 10:16
Olga Spiegel, Untitled, 1971, Oil on canvas, 22 x 26 inches. Photo courtesy of Collection Jacaeber Kastor The Outsider Art Fair is Back After a creative response to the pandemic last year where curated shows were presented across several local galleries along... News 20 Feb 2022 | 05:18
Suraj Patel is running for the third time in Congressional District 12. Photo courtesy of Suraj Patel’s campaign Suraj Patel Announces Third Campaign for Congress Suraj Patel — an attorney, activist and business ethics lecturer at New York University — is embarking on his third run in... News 18 Feb 2022 | 11:17
Angelica Dalzon, SVA student and co-curator of “The Way We See Us” at the SVA Chelsea Gallery. Photo courtesy of Angelica Dalzon ‘This is Me As a Person, Not Just a Black Person’ It is often unspoken, the expectations, but deafening in their reception. This is the way you’re “supposed” to be, the world... News 14 Feb 2022 | 01:40
The entryway of Kona Coffee & Company’s Chelsea location between 21st St.and Seventh Ave. Photo: Ava Manson A Taste of Hawaii in Chelsea Grown in Hawaii but brewed in New York, the coffee beans used by specialty Hawaiian coffee shop Kona Coffee & Company bring... News 08 Feb 2022 | 12:10
The new map of Congressional District 12. The “85th Street Transverse,” as marked on this map, is actually the 86th Street Transverse. Courtesy of the NYS Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment. New Congressional Maps Shuffle Manhattan District Borders Manhattan’s borders have been shuffled, thanks to newly drawn maps of New York’s congressional districts released by Democratic... News 04 Feb 2022 | 06:13