Chelsea Loses Voting Power in City Council Redistricting Plan
BY ANDREW BERMAN | The City Council has just adopted its decennial redistricting plan. Unfortunately, Chelsea residents were seriously shortchanged, and as a result, their voting power and influence over the Council may be significantly diluted over the next ten years. This could have real consequences. The City Council is the main way local communities [...]
Hudson River Park Must Generate More Revenue
Over the last 18 months, the Hudson River Park Trust hosted a series of task force meetings attended by all the local elected officials or their representatives and many experienced urban planning experts, representatives of the three community boards and other community groups, environmental experts and parks professionals. These meetings were highly structured, transparent and [...]
Rent Rise Hustles Rawhide from Chelsea
By SCOTT STIFFLER | Outside the Rawhide, a sign above the water dish was bad news for thirsty dogs…and hungry men. “Thank you for stopping by all these 33 years for a drink or some ice or even just a pat on the back. It has been a pleasure serving you and making sure your [...]
Chelsea Market Community Givebacks Neither Permanent Nor Guaranteed
We were extremely disappointed this past October when Speaker Christine Quinn and the City Council voted to grant permission for two huge office towers to be built atop the historic Chelsea Market complex, over the objections of many in the community (including our three organizations). Yet again, the City Council was changing local zoning rules [...]
Not All Progress is Progressive
BY STEVEN SKYLES-MULLIGAN | We have just been through a significant election in which our candidates performed well and our causes have advanced enough to nudge the core of our national discussion away from the right and back towards the middle. But that’s not what progressivism is about. In his recent book, “Herding Donkeys: The [...]
The Skinny on Slimming Winter Soups
BY CARLYE WAXMAN RD, CDN | Who wants to eat a cold salad or fruit and yogurt when it’s chilly out? The best way to stay warm and skinny this winter is with SOUP! Making healthy soups is a surefire way to lose weight during the winter months, when we tend to gain. Soups can [...]
Precinct Realignment is an ‘Essential Necessity’
BY PAMELA WOLFF | Re “NYPD Passes on Precinct Realignment” (news, Jan. 9, 2013): Commissioner Kelly’s decision to reject a broadly supported community initiative seeking to adjust the boundaries between the 10th and 13th precincts — which would have addressed a still-growing East Chelsea’s business and residential needs — is unfortunate and disappointing. Among the [...]
Council Action Preserves Chelsea Treasure
BY CHRISTINE C. QUINN CITY COUNCIL SPEAKER | The New York City Council took action to save Chelsea Market and preserve the iconic neighborhood treasure that we all love. The agreement we reached ensures that the Chelsea Market we know today will be allowed to grow in a way that preserves its current facade and [...]
Chelsea Market Should Not Have Been Upzoned
BY ANDREW BERMAN | The deal between the City Council and international developer Jamestown Properties to upzone Chelsea Market, allowing two huge structures to be built atop the complex, was fundamentally flawed — as was the process from which it emerged. The area around Chelsea Market is already suffering from terrible overdevelopment, traffic and congestion. [...]
Why Chelsea Market must grow
Editor’s Note: After March 7’s editorial (“Chelsea Market plan should be stopped before ULURP”), we reached out to Jamestown Properties with an offer to respond via a Talking Point. They accepted, and sent the following: As the owners of two very different kinds of businesses in Chelsea Market, we have watched it grow and change [...]
