Tag Archives: Chelsea

Folsom Street East runs today on West 27th between 10th and 11th avenues. That’s one block south of the street in front of the Eagle. The weather today is partly cloudy with highs in the mid-70s – perfect for an outdoor party.

Google has altered the sign on its massive Chelsea headquarters. Every year several hundred “Gayglers” march in New York City’s pride parade. Source.

Folsom Street East didn’t happen last year due to the massive apartment building that is nearing completion on West 28th Street. The event returns this year, one block away. Via press release: Folsom Street East (FSE) today announced that it will hold its 16th annual Street Fair on Sunday, June 22nd. In anticipation of final approval from the City of …

Stand by for that garage door to be ripped down and sold for a jillion dollars in one of the nearby fancy galleries. (Via Gothamist)

The NYPD has made an arrest in the gay-bashing of a couple that had been holding hands on a Chelsea street last month. Alfonso Lanier, 23, was charged Tuesday with aggravated harassment and assault as a hate crime, the New York Police Department said. Authorities are still looking for a second suspect. The assault took place August 14 in the …

Back in April, I reported that Chelsea’s Pier 57, which last year hosted an indoor version of NYC Pride’s famed Pier Dance, had been leased to retail developers who promise a massive $200M makeover.  This week the project’s management announced that the new complex will be called SuperPier. From the press release: SuperPier, when complete in the spring of 2015, …

New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn has issued a statement via press release: This kind of an anti-gay attack is unacceptable anywhere, but for it to happen in Chelsea which has such a large LGBT population is particularly shocking. And what’s worse is that this is happening after a summer of repeated attacks on members of the LGBT attack …

NBC New York reports: Two gay men who were holding hands as they left a movie theater in Chelsea were attacked by a group of men who hurled anti-gay slurs, and one was hurt so badly he needed seven stitches on his face. Peter Nortman and his boyfriend, Michael Felenchak, had left the Chelsea Cinemas just after midnight early Wednesday …

Back in March, I reported that Chelsea’s iconic Rawhide bar was closing after 34 years in business.  Jeremiah’s Vanishing New York reports on what is going in at that location: Crain’s reports that Chelsea’s iconic gay leather bar is “being replaced by a West coast pizza chain, in another sign of the gentrification of the area around the popular High …

Last night members of ACT UP disrupted a Stoli promotion at the popular Splash Bar in Chelsea.  Paul Schindler reports at Gay City News: It certainly didn’t have the makings of a fair fight, as a group of less than a dozen members of ACT UP/ NY faced off against a crowd of roughly 150 who had been primed with …

Minutes ago the owner of Chelsea’s iconic Splash nightclub announced on Facebook that the club will “permanently close” on August 10th. Nothing is mentioned as to a possible new location.

In reaction to the continuing spree of anti-gay hate crimes, the NYPD announced today that they have increases patrols in the West Village, Chelsea, and Hell’s Kitchen. The patrols — which will feature mobile command units — were announced in response to the shooting death of Mark Carson, 32, Saturday, allegedly by a man spewing homophobic slurs. The increased police …

A tambourine-waving crowd packed the Chelsea’s Highline Ballroom for the 23rd annual Night Of 1000 Stevies, which bills itself as “the largest and most beloved Stevie Nicks fan event in the world.” The performers included former Scissor Sisters guitarist Del Marquis & Xavier, the Ho Hos, and Jenna Torres.

The organizers of Folsom Street East announced this afternoon that this year’s event has been canceled. It is with sadness that the Producers and Board of Directors of Folsom Street East have to announce that the 17th annual Folsom Street East Street Festival this June is going to be cancelled. Though we continue to receive support for this community-building and …

Blowoff will bust its sweaty, furry self into Chelsea’s Highline Ballroom this Friday. Doors open at 11:30pm. Advance tickets here. This party will probably sell out. Love the new graphic, guys!

Jeremiah Moss has some sad news at Vanishing New York. Opened in 1979, the Rawhide is one of the last of a handful of old-school, unpretentious gay bars left in New York City. It is a survivor. But it won’t be for long. The building that houses it on 8th and 21st in Chelsea was sold a couple of years …

Blowoff will bust its sweaty, furry self into Chelsea’s Highline Ballroom this Friday. Doors open at 11:30pm. Advance tickets here. This party will probably sell out.

NYC’s famed Roxy nightclub, arguably the city’s last gay megaclub, closed in March 2007 and was supposed to be immediately demolished for luxury condos. Almost five years later the Chelsea building is still standing and this week it opened as a massive gallery space.  Via Hyperallergic: The new gallery, the site of the former Roxy nightclub and roller rink on …

Today Google will announce a project to deliver free WiFi to much of Chelsea, the Manhattan neighborhood that is home to the company’s massive New York City headquarters. The Mountain View, California-based company has been working with New York to foster a technology hotbed in the city. Last year it agreed to donate office space to Cornell University and the …

When I ran into attorney and activist Yetta Kurland at the Stonewall Inn two weeks ago, she told me she hadn’t yet decided on whether to challenge Community Board 4 chairman Corey Johnson in the race to succeed Christine Quinn as Chelsea’s representative on the New York City Council. Today we learn Kurland is in. Via Gay City News: In …