At the 2019 Oasis benefit at Chelsea Piers. Photo courtesy of the Ali Forney Center Ali Forney Center Changes Event Venue to Protest Chelsea Piers Chelsea Piers faced a massive backlash for featuring Florida Governor Ron DeSantis at a Tivkah Fund conference on Sunday,... News 17 Jun 2022 | 06:13
Crime Watch Terrorist Scare Inside Water Taxi Waiting Room An unidentified witness reported to police that at 3:01 p.m. on Sunday, June... Crime Watch 10 Jun 2022 | 11:10
Crime Watch Man Punches Uber Driver A 64-year-old Uber driver from Hackensack, NJ told police that at 7:35 p.m. on Saturday, May 2, he... Crime Watch 03 Jun 2022 | 11:47
Chelsea tree canopy. Photo: Zoey Lyttle A Greener Future for District 3 Councilman Erik Bottcher’s office recently tallied District 3’s votes for this year’s Participatory Budgeting program. After... News 31 May 2022 | 01:05
Crime Watch Driver Mugged at Gunpoint A 22-year-old male driver from Staten Island told police that at 1:30 a.m. on Monday, May 16, he... Crime Watch 20 May 2022 | 12:06
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
