Eric Bothcher has put up nine projects for participatory budget vote. Voting closes on April 6. ( Photo: Keith J. Kelly) $1 Million On Tap as Chelsea ‘Participatory Budgeting’ Voting Gets Underway As “participatory budgeting” voting gets underway (March 29 to April 6), Chelsea residents living in City Council Member... News 31 Mar 2025 | 06:03
Wanted for assault at 23rd St A / C /E station, March 17, 2025. ( Photo: NYPD) Psycho Shoves Man for Refusing Subway Swipe; Fatality at Times Square Station Appearances, never forget, can be deceiving. That’s one lesson to be relearned from an assault that occurred on March 17,... News 30 Mar 2025 | 04:39
Chelsea City Councilmember Tony Simone rallying for the implementation of a bill that would mandate psychiatric care for some defendants departing jail, which is based on a report he issued in January. ( Photo: Tony Simone) West Side Pols Push Varied Measures They Say Will Address Homelessness Two politicians representing Manhattan’s parts of the West Side are pushing measures that they believe will help homeless... News 02 Mar 2025 | 08:04
A stylishly dressed woman stole cosmetics from a Chelsea shop, cops said, and when confronted, assaulted a store employee. ( Photo: NYPD) Stylish Woman Shoplifter Steals from Flatiron Cosmetics Store, Assaults Employee, Flees At its best—which is the same as saying at its worst—crime is an equal opportunity employer. Take the stylish woman bandit... News 10 Feb 2025 | 02:52
NYPD-supplied surveillance image of two young people thought to be robbers armed with a knife. ( Photo: NYPD) Teenager Robbed at Knifepoint on W. 17th St.: Sweater, Cash Taken If the streets of Chelsea sometimes feel dangerous, it’s not your imagination. Even on blocks without scaffolds, even in... News 26 Jan 2025 | 09:24
Surveillance video shows 18th St station moments before Joseph Lynskey is pushed before an oncoming 1 train by alleged assailant Kamel Hawkins. ( Photo: Obtained from NYPD and annotated by Straus News) Subway Violence Strikes Again as Maniac Shoves Man onto Tracks at W. 18th Street Horror once again came home to a Manhattan rail commuter on the afternoon of, Dec. 31, when a deranged 23-year-old, Kamel... News 03 Jan 2025 | 10:43
Clockwise: Ebenezer Gospel Tabernacle Christian Mission in Harlem, St. Paul’s German Evangelical Lutheran Church in Chelsea, Kehila Kedosha Janina Synagogue and Museum on the Lower East Side, and St. Peter’s Chelsea. ( Photo credits, clockwise: Ebenezer Gospel Tabernacle Christian Mission’s Facebook page, Jim Naureckas via Wikimedia Commons, Ajay Suresh via Wikimedia Commons, Beyond My Ken via Wikimedia Commons.) Four Sacred Sites in Manhattan Receive Renovation Grants The New York Landmarks Conservancy has pledged a total of $81,750 in “Sacred Sites Grants” to four religious properties in... News 03 Jun 2024 | 04:11
An aerial view of the street mural titled Buggy Bear Goes on a Cool Cruise by artist Alake Shilling. Photo: ( Meatpacking BID_Cherry Orchard) Vibrant New Pedestrian Plaza Called Gansevoort Landing Opens in Meatpacking District The once empty and unused patch of land between Gansevoort and Horatio Streets on 10th Avenue has now been upgraded with... News 02 Oct 2023 | 05:48
Delfena Plasencea and Maria Moneira in front of their Chelsea-Elliot apartment on 10th Avenue and 26th Street. Photo: Beau Matic. ( " ") Are Residents Really on Board with NYCHA’s $1.5B Plan to Tear Down, Rebuild Public Housing? The New York City Authority (NYCHA) announced on Wednesday, June 21 a plan to invest $1.5 billion to tear down the Section... News 26 Jun 2023 | 02:19
Graham Parker performs solo at City Winery on May 31. Photo: Jon Friedman Graham Parker is Just Famous Enough in Rare Solo Gig Graham Parker told a funny story on himself a few songs into his terrific set on May 31 at City Winery. While it was refreshingly... News 01 Jun 2023 | 08:14
Kevin Rawlings, who was identified recently as the Google employee who took his own life on May 4th,was remembered by a college friend as a brilliant engineer and outgoing guy, who also suffered bouts of depression. Photo: Legacy.com Google Suicide Victim Identified, Remembered as brilliant engineer The 31 year old Google software engineer who took his own life on May 4 by jumping from the 14th floor of the tech giant’s... News 19 May 2023 | 11:44
Marcus Samuelsson, already one of New York’s hottest celebrity chefs thanks to three star Red Rooster Harlem, said the new restaurant Hav & Mar that he opened in Chelsea last year is a nod to both his Swedish and Ethiopian heritage, combining the Swedish translation of the word “ocean” with the Amharic translation for the word “honey.” Photo: Wikimedia Commons ( NEIL GRABOWSKY) The Celeb Chef Behind Chelsea’s Hav & Mar and Red Rooster Harlem Dishes on Food Diversity NEW YORK (AP) - Marcus Samuelsson is keen on leading with intention. That focus is seared into the delectable dishes prepared... News 20 Mar 2023 | 05:25
Life Sentence Looms for Attacker Convicted of Rape of Asian Woman in Chelsea in ‘21 A 61 year old man was convicted of sexual assault and sexual abuse for the brutal rape of an Asian woman at a Chelsea construction... News 06 Feb 2023 | 11:45
Radha Metro-Midkiff, executive director of the Manhattan headquarters of Integral Yoga. Photo courtesy of Integral Yoga Institute Caring for the Spirit as Well as the Body In the words of Sri Swami Satchidananda, a spiritual teacher from India and founder of Integral Yoga, the perfect or divine... News 23 Dec 2022 | 10:30
Two people were arrested for trespassing at Council Member Erik Bottcher’s apartment building on Monday, Dec. 19, according to an NYPD spokesperson. Photo via Erik Bottcher’s Twitter Hate At Erik Bottcher’s Doorstep Inside a Chelsea public library on Saturday, Dec. 17, children read “regular kids’ books,” sitting on the floor together,... News 22 Dec 2022 | 02:13
Council Member Calls for “Pedestrian Pricing” in Manhattan below 60th St