Category: Community
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Further delays for the Women’s Building as third block party nears
While Women’s Building developers wait for access from the state, they unite the community where they can: on the streets.
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Bryant Park West: San Francisco borrows a park plan
San Francisco reimagines Bryant Park.
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Chelsea activists demand more vouchers for low-income mothers
Chelsea activists demand more WIC access for low-income mothers and infants.
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Construction delays as the Women’s Building builds community first
Construction slightly delayed, the Women’s Building is building community before breaking ground.
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Proposal to modify Chelsea building is rejected
Chelsea Land Use Committee declined an alteration plan for 500 West 22nd St. and asked for a more substantial effort to retain the building’s past.
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Growing number of seniors rely on cash-strapped food pantry
Seniors who rely on a Chelsea food pantry face leaner times as the food pantry struggles with multiple challenges.
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New rooftop farm takes aim at Hell’s Kitchen fresh produce shortage
Residents of Hell’s Kitchen, a neighborhood grappling with lack of access to fresh food, can expect a new rooftop farm in 2018.
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Small West Chelsea building ignites parking debate
Community Board 4 approved additional parking spots for a new residential building in West Chelsea, creating controversy among local residents.
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The Women’s Building welcomes input from Chelsea residents
The Women’s Building hosted a block party on 25th September in Chelsea, to draw inputs from the community about the redevelopment of Bayview Correctional Facility, a former women’s prison on West 20th Street.
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Manhattan Plaza Block Sale puts community over profit
Manhattan Plaza Tenants Association held its sixth annual Block Sale in Hell’s Kitchen.
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Chelsea street fair faces new round of challenges
On September 24, the London Terrace Tenants Association held its annual street fair as New York City seeks to reform festival rules.
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New York’s food first responders
The Detectives Endowment Association canteen truck is among the first to respond to a crisis in New York City, helping to support the servicemen and women who support New York City.
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High Line seeks to become everybody’s park
Carmelita Tropicana performed at the High Line as the elevated park seeks to appeal to the local community through more diverse events.
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The Ladies’ Mile: property rights vs. preservation
Preservationists are rallying to defeat two bills recently introduced at City Council, both aimed at regulating the Landmarks Preservation Commission.
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Open data for all?
Tech heavyweights throw their capital behind the annual BigApps competition and the City Council keeps pushing open data legislation. Meanwhile, the city’s 311 hotline receives thousands of service requests a day – all of them, of course, catalogued online.
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New park to generate revenue, while detractors question cost
The Hudson Yards/Hell’s Kitchen Business Improvement District is inching closer to acquiring a sole source license for park commerce, but not everyone in the community is happy.
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Rockefeller Center’s ice rink opens amid Indian summer
Rockefeller Center’s ice skating rink reopens for business while temperatures in New York hit 72 degrees.
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Chelsea street fair struggles to stay afloat
The London Terrace, a historic pre-war apartment complex in West Chelsea, hosted its 23rd annual street fair in late September. Although the fair is beloved by the community, it is struggling to stay afloat because of city-mandated fees for street fair organizers.
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New York’s working — at least for now
‘Tis the season to have a job, and maybe a raise, in much of Midtown West.
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Young entrepreneurs start consulting firm at Fulton Houses
Acevedo & Associates, founded by young residents of the Robert Fulton Houses public housing project, tries to bridge the gap between the booming affluence of Chelsea and its low-income communities.
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