E-bike bandits, two per bike, in Hudson River Park, April 24, 2025. ( Photos: NYPD) Man Indicted for Threat to Kill Jews at East Side Synagogue; E-bikers Attack Teen in Chelsea E-Bike Gang Attacks Youth in Hudson River Park in Chelsea Police are asking for the public’s assistance in identifying four... News 12 May 2025 | 11:54
David Barton’s Gym U NYC reclaims the former YMCA building in Chelsea that was made famous by the Village People’s anthem. ( Photo: Deborah Fenker) Feud is over between gym owner and landlord of famed Village People ‘YMCA’ building A simmering feud between David Barton, a pioneer of the gym-as-nightclub movement, and the landlord of the building where... News 28 Apr 2025 | 06:16
Wanted for mugging a senior woman for her purse, Sixth Avenue and 16th Street, April 18, 2025. ( Photos: NYPD) Woman Mugs Woman in Chelsea; Penn Station Stabber Indicted Cops from the 13th Precinct are on the lookout for a suspected woman mugger who targeted a senior woman in Chelsea recently.... News 28 Apr 2025 | 10:12
Zhenya Gershman surrounded by her paintings. ( Photo: Kelly Garreau ) New Exhibition by Activist Artist Shines Human Light on Homeless Zhenya Gershman is an artist who uses her canvas to highlight a wide variety of causes, from the plight of the homeless in... City Arts 26 Apr 2025 | 03:44
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
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
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... 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
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
A fine selection of Mexican food can be found at Temerario in Chelsea headed by veteran restaurateur Jorge Guzman--who has had establishments from the East Village to Greenwich Village--says our East (and West) Side Observer. Photo: Courtesy Temerario Restaurant Revival in Chelsea Good News for this East Sider Chelsea’s re-rising Restaurants are coming back strong and nightlife is returning to Chelsea. When I’d heard that Temerario... News 28 Jun 2023 | 11:24
Delfena Plasencea and Maria Moneira in front of their Chelsea-Elliot apartment on 10th Avenue and 26th Street. Photo: Beau Matic. ( " ") Are Residents Really on Board with NYCHA’s $1.5B Plan to Tear Down, Rebuild Public Housing? The New York City Authority (NYCHA) announced on Wednesday, June 21 a plan to invest $1.5 billion to tear down the Section... News 26 Jun 2023 | 02:19
Graham Parker performs solo at City Winery on May 31. Photo: Jon Friedman Graham Parker is Just Famous Enough in Rare Solo Gig Graham Parker told a funny story on himself a few songs into his terrific set on May 31 at City Winery. While it was refreshingly... Voices 01 Jun 2023 | 08:14
MTA Trying to Shut Down the “Superhighway of Fare Evasion” in Subways