Chelsea Now photo by Jefferson Siegel
Shaun Donovan, commissioner of the city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development, gives the keynote speech at the fourth annual West Side Tenants Conference on Saturday at Fordham Law School.
On day rent increases take effect, residents rally on
By Jefferson Siegel
Several hundred tenant advocates braved wind and rain to rally in Harlem late Wednesday afternoon, the same day that new, sizeable increases for rent-stabilized apartments went into effect.
Pier 40 plan sinks again; Trust seeks longer lease
By Lincoln Anderson
For the second time in five years, the Hudson River Park Trust’s efforts to find a private developer to renovate and operate Pier 40 have gone down to a watery grave.
After 16 years, Chelsea street fair still draws a crowd |
NEWS
Commercial rent regulation sought in new bill
By Patrick Hedlund
When a string of longstanding shops along Ninth Ave. in Chelsea became endangered earlier this year after a large property purchase threatened to replace them with upscale retail, both storeowners and community advocates spoke out at a rally in defense of local mom-and-pop operations.
Contentious newsstand makes news at board mtg.
By Heather Murray
The addition of a small newsstand to a Chelsea intersection has created a big discussion in the community, raising questions over market competition, mom-and-pop livelihood and neighborhood overdevelopment.
Community cast raises curtain on new theater task force
By Heather Murray
Community Board 4 chairperson J.D. Noland has always viewed the Chelsea-Clinton area as “traditionally a theater community,” home to countless actors, stagehands, playwrights and the theaters that showcase their work.
Tenant-protection panoply provided at conference
By Heather Murray
Close to 400 people packed into Fordham Law School at Lincoln Center to attend the fourth annual West Side Tenants’ Conference on Saturday. |
Chelsea: Arts & Lifestyles
Extraordinary Joe
By Lee Ann Westover
Ten years ago, downtown Manhattan’s venerable Public Theater transformed a corner of their grand Lafayette Street edifice into a glamorous music club, bar and restaurant.
Taking back the White House
What does Porter Shreve’s fictional romp through’70s idealism teach us about today? |
Jumping off
BY BRIAN MCCORMICK
Joining the ranks of the many new (and returning) performing arts executive directors around the city, Stanford Makishi quietly took over at the Baryshnikov Arts Center in January of 2008.
Where the deer and the dispossessed play
BY DEBRA JENKS
There’s something strange going on at the Super 8 Motel.
Unpacking the past
By STACEY COBURN
More than six decades after Russian-born Jewish author Irène Némirovsky perished at Auschwitz, the Museum of Jewish History hosts the first museum show dedicated to her work and life. |
