Clifton Williams on the day he was charged in two assaults on May 8, 2024, one on actor Steve Buscemi and another on an Asian individual whose name was not released. He was sentenced on April 10 after pleading guilty. ( Photo: NYPD) Random Stabbing in Midtown; Steve Buscemi Attacker Sentenced Because it happened just two days after the horrific broken-bottle attack on costume designer Mae Berg in SoHo, another random... News 13 Apr 2025 | 11:21
Suspected Flatiron stabber walking past Madison Square Park, Worth Square behind him, March 29. ( Photo: NYPD) Cops Hunt Flatiron Stabber; Bragg Indicts Man for Anti-Gay Hate Crime On Saturday, March 29, at approximately 5:30 p.m., in the vicinity of West 25th Street and Fifth Avenue, a 31-year-old male... News 06 Apr 2025 | 06:32
Eric Bothcher has put up nine projects for participatory budget vote. Voting closes on April 6. ( Photo: Keith J. Kelly) $1 Million On Tap as Chelsea ‘Participatory Budgeting’ Voting Gets Underway As “participatory budgeting” voting gets underway (March 29 to April 6), Chelsea residents living in City Council Member... News 31 Mar 2025 | 06:03
Wanted for assault at 23rd St A / C /E station, March 17, 2025. ( Photo: NYPD) Psycho Shoves Man for Refusing Subway Swipe; Fatality at Times Square Station Appearances, never forget, can be deceiving. That’s one lesson to be relearned from an assault that occurred on March 17,... News 30 Mar 2025 | 04:39
Chelsea City Councilmember Tony Simone rallying for the implementation of a bill that would mandate psychiatric care for some defendants departing jail, which is based on a report he issued in January. ( Photo: Tony Simone) West Side Pols Push Varied Measures They Say Will Address Homelessness Two politicians representing Manhattan’s parts of the West Side are pushing measures that they believe will help homeless... News 02 Mar 2025 | 08:04
Sleek, modern-looking interior is a hallmark of “Kid,” a new Chelsea restaurant brought to you by the same folks who are behind Motel Morris and Chelsea Commons. ( Photo: Deborah Fenker) New ‘Kid’ on the Block Heats Up Dining Scene with Modern Take on Italian Eatery Looks like the team behind Motel Morris got a little frisky and had a Kid just a stone’s throw from their first restaurant.... Food & Drink 10 Feb 2025 | 03:32
A stylishly dressed woman stole cosmetics from a Chelsea shop, cops said, and when confronted, assaulted a store employee. ( Photo: NYPD) Stylish Woman Shoplifter Steals from Flatiron Cosmetics Store, Assaults Employee, Flees At its best—which is the same as saying at its worst—crime is an equal opportunity employer. Take the stylish woman bandit... News 10 Feb 2025 | 02:52
Alleged groper inside Burlington Coat Factory, Sunday Jan. 19, 2025 at approximately 8:20 p.m. ( NYPD) Woman Groped in Burlington Coat Factory on Sixth Ave. Shopping on one of Manhattan’s great retail thoroughfares—and 6th Avenue in Chelsea certainly is one of them—should always... News 02 Feb 2025 | 12:04
NYPD-supplied surveillance image of two young people thought to be robbers armed with a knife. ( Photo: NYPD) Teenager Robbed at Knifepoint on W. 17th St.: Sweater, Cash Taken If the streets of Chelsea sometimes feel dangerous, it’s not your imagination. Even on blocks without scaffolds, even in... News 26 Jan 2025 | 09:24
The Spanish language flyer that is at the heart of the protest lists the election date as Jan. 3, instead of Jan. 2. NYCHA Election Fight, Round Three The insurgent candidate for tenant association president of the Elliott-Chelsea houses told the New York City Housing Authority... News 16 Jan 2025 | 06:01
A Spanish language flyer distributed prior to the election for president of the Elliott-Chelsea Houses Tenants Association gave the wrong date. It did not clear who produced the flyer but it did say, in Spanish ”Let’s say no to the demolition of our homes.” ( Photo: Flyer) Election Turmoil at Elliott-Chelsea Houses: Incumbent President Pushes for New Election The longtime leader of the tenant association at Elliott-Chelsea Houses, defeated for reelection by four votes, has demanded... News 11 Jan 2025 | 12:01
Surveillance video shows 18th St station moments before Joseph Lynskey is pushed before an oncoming 1 train by alleged assailant Kamel Hawkins. ( Photo: Obtained from NYPD and annotated by Straus News) Subway Violence Strikes Again as Maniac Shoves Man onto Tracks at W. 18th Street Horror once again came home to a Manhattan rail commuter on the afternoon of, Dec. 31, when a deranged 23-year-old, Kamel... News 03 Jan 2025 | 10:43
Clockwise: Ebenezer Gospel Tabernacle Christian Mission in Harlem, St. Paul’s German Evangelical Lutheran Church in Chelsea, Kehila Kedosha Janina Synagogue and Museum on the Lower East Side, and St. Peter’s Chelsea. ( Photo credits, clockwise: Ebenezer Gospel Tabernacle Christian Mission’s Facebook page, Jim Naureckas via Wikimedia Commons, Ajay Suresh via Wikimedia Commons, Beyond My Ken via Wikimedia Commons.) Four Sacred Sites in Manhattan Receive Renovation Grants The New York Landmarks Conservancy has pledged a total of $81,750 in “Sacred Sites Grants” to four religious properties in... News 03 Jun 2024 | 04:11
The exterior of 550 W. 20th Street in 2020. The building, constructed in 1931, was originally the Seamen’s House YMCA. It was later converted into the Bayview Correctional Facility, a medium-security women’s prison, which shut down in 2013. Now, it will be redeveloped into affordable and supportive housing. ( Photo by Jim Naureckas, used under CC by 2.0/ Flickr) Former Prison in West Chelsea to Become Affordable Housing, Says Gov. Hochul At eight stories tall and with a lot size of 15,800 square feet, the 1931 Art Deco building at 550 W. 20th Street in West... Home 04 Oct 2023 | 01:48
An aerial view of the street mural titled Buggy Bear Goes on a Cool Cruise by artist Alake Shilling. Photo: ( Meatpacking BID_Cherry Orchard) Vibrant New Pedestrian Plaza Called Gansevoort Landing Opens in Meatpacking District The once empty and unused patch of land between Gansevoort and Horatio Streets on 10th Avenue has now been upgraded with... Home 02 Oct 2023 | 05:48
Council Member Calls for “Pedestrian Pricing” in Manhattan below 60th St