Stand with the People of Oklahoma
NYC Community Media encourages our readers to donate what they can to help the people of Oklahoma recover from the devastating tornado that hit May 21. Our papers –Downtown Express, The Villager, Chelsea Now, Gay City News and the East Villager – cover communities which received support from around the country and the world after [...]
Buhmann on Art
Our critic’s top gallery picks ELENA SISTO: BETWEEN THE SILVER LIGHT AND ORANGE SHADOW Sisto’s first solo show with the gallery serves as the final venue for the traveling museum exhibition of the same title. For the last three years, Sisto’s paintings have explored the formative years of young women artists. Most show three-quarter profiles [...]
Letters, Week of May 15, 2013
Park it, at 20th St. To The Editor: Re “Multiple Visions for a Vacant Lot” (news, May 1): There is no need to choose between Affordable Housing and this desperately needed park. The community has provided our elected officials with a list of 30 derelict properties in Chelsea. Each of these buildings could become prime [...]
Street Fair Oversight
Street fair season is back — and with it, the perennial issues surrounding this very public, and much-debated, feature of city life. Community Board 2 (CB2), which includes Greenwich Village, annually has among the most street fairs in the city — and receives the most street fair applications. These events, when small and locally based [...]
CB4 Mulls Nightlife vs. Quality of Life
BY EILEEN STUKANE | The restaurants, bars and clubs of Chelsea and Hell’s Kitchen may be boosting the local economy — but at the May 1 full board meeting of Community Board 4 (CB4), residents who live near the boisterous eating and drinking establishments aired their frustration at the lack of good fences and the [...]
Neighbors Say BRC Clients Harass, Intimidate
BY WINNIE McCROY | Almost two years have passed since the Bowery Residents’ Committee (BRC) opened their 12-story, 328-bed homeless shelter at 127 West 25th Street (between Sixth and Seventh Avenues) — and while the BRC continues to rehabilitate the homeless as well as those with substance abuse problems and mental illness, some neighbors say [...]
Picturing a Park, on 20th Street
BY MAEVE GATELY | Consult a map of Manhattan and highlight the areas within a half-mile of a park or green space, and you will see that Chelsea ranks last — a glaring insufficiency that is depriving residents of recreation space, and families of much-needed playgrounds. Such is the argument of Friends of 20th Street [...]
Noble and Odom Among CB4’s New Eight
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Long hours, no pay and a constantly expanding, complex universe of land use, transportation, landmarks, license, permit, housing and quality of life issues that will impact urban living for decades to come — this is just the tip of what you’re in for when you sign up to serve on Community [...]
Concert celebrates 50 years of Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan
Album’s anniversary feted by its contemporaries BY MICHAEL LYDON | Fifty years ago this month, May 1963, Columbia Records released Bob Dylan’s second album: “The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan.” Dylan had come to New York only two years before and, like countless young singers, actors, dancers, artists and writers before and since, he was bound and [...]
Rhyme Machine
Kid Lucky and La MaMa celebrate ‘the art of human noise’ BY TOM TENNEY | In a 1913 letter to the composer Francesco Balilla Pratella, Italian Futurist Luigi Russolo declared, “The variety of noises is infinite…today we have perhaps a thousand different machines, and can distinguish a thousand different noises, tomorrow, as new machines multiply, [...]
