On Sunday, May. 17, Hellenic food, dancing, and music held sway at Congregation Kehila Kedosha Janina’s 11th annual Greek Jewish Festival, which took up the length of Broome Street between Allen and Eldridge Streets on the Lower East Side. The festival lasted six hours, and several thousand people braved the 85-degree heat to attend. Familiar […]
Greek Jewish Festival both is both Hellenic and Hebraic Read More »
The Second Avenue Subway was back in the news a few months ago when Gov. Kathy Hochul proposed that the third step for the Second Avenue Subway, rather than proceeding south from 63rd Street, should be heading west across 125th Street to 8th Avenue, with connections to other lines. While there was some support among
The Second Avenue Subway: It Only Took About 100 Years Read More »
Residents of NYCHA’s Elliott-Chelsea and Fulton Houses need to keep up the pressure against the housing authority’s plan to demolish and replace the buildings, several hundred people stressed during a demonstration at Fulton on Saturday, March 14. The plan by NYCHA, The Related Companies, and Essence Development would destroy all 2,056 apartments on the two
Jack and Layla fight to save Chelsea’s NYCHA buildings, Mamdani not listening Read More »
The campaign to replace Erik Bottcher as councilmember for the 3rd Council District is up and running, with a special election slated for April 28. Endorsements are pouring in, but along with boosting their own candidacies, the candidates have another task – making people aware of the election in general. The candidates, all Democrats, are
Village special election less than two months away Read More »
ICE’s abuses of power, affordable housing, and the planned demolition and redevelopment of NYCHA’s Fulton and Elliott-Chelsea Houses were front and center at the Chelsea Reform Democratic Club’s Zoom forum on Monday, Jan. 27, featuring the four candidates for the Democratic nomination for City Councilmember representing Council District 3. The candidates are Leslie Boghosian Murphy, an
These are the people running to replace Bottcher, who saw greener pastures elsewhere Read More »
When people talk about Art Deco architecture in New York, some think of the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building. Others think of the luxurious apartment buildings on the Bronx’s Grand Concourse. However, there’s another center of Art Deco — Manhattan’s Chelsea district. Among Chelsea’s Art Deco structures— built during the late 1920s and
The Art Deco buildings in Chelsea, by Raanan Geberer Read More »
