Tag Archives: Chelsea

Former Republican National Committee chairman Ken “Closet Case” Mehlman has bought a $4M loft in the heart of Chelsea, where he’ll run into fellow tenants Lance Bass and Marc Jacobs in the elevator. Curbed reports: Mehlman just paid $3.775 million for a 2,200-square-foot 2BR/3BA loft on the 17th floor, and according to the listing (still viewable on the rather spectacular …

Kylie Minogue dropped in at Splash in Chelsea last night and the lives of hundreds of twinks were changed forever. (And not a few bears, too.) (Via – Towleroad)

Chelsea’s iconic Empire Diner will close next month. “After more than thirty years of serving Chelsea residents, actors, police commissioners, athletes, gangsters, such luminaries as Madonna, Barbra Streisand, Steven Spielberg, and anyone carrying a New York City Guide Book, the Empire Diner has lost its lease and is closing its doors May 15th, 2010.” I had breakfast at the Empire …

Details are sketchy so far, but local NYC news is reporting that two men were shot at 4:30am this morning outside Chelsea’s M2 Ultralounge, which is hosting the annual post-Black Party event Alegria Extreme. One man was shot in the foot and the other was shot in the leg as both patrons stood in the club’s outside smoking area. The …

An explosion in Chelsea has blown out the windows of a seven story building and destroyed a ground floor Radio Shack. Firefighters are on the scene of an explosion on 6th Avenue and 20th Streets in Manhattan’s Flatiron District. The front of a Radio Shack store at 641 6th Avenue was smoldering in the aftermath. There was damage to several …

It looks like four of the five NYC nightclubs set to be closed down for smoking violations have struck deals to live another day. Not surviving the city’s wrath is Chelsea’s M2 Ultra Lounge megaclub, host to the city’s largest gay dance parties. The Health Department’s top lawyer sat down with reps for M2 Ultra Lounge in Chelsea after he …

This week NYC announced plans to close down at least five clubs for violating the city’s ban on indoor smoking. Included on the list of clubs to lose their liquor licenses is Chelsea’s massive M2 Ultra Lounge (formerly Mansion, formerly Studio Mezmor, formerly Crobar), which is host to numerous gay dance parties including the popular Alegria circuit party events. M2 …

Friday-Sunday this weekend in NYC the 12th annual Postcards From The Edge benefit for Visual AIDS will take place in West Chelsea. Postcards From the Edge is a Visual AIDS benefit show and sale of original, postcard-sized works on paper by established and emerging artists. All works are sold on a first-come, first-served basis. The works are signed on the …

As I mentioned here many months ago, NYC’s notorious Limelight nightclub, the disco that brought the world club kids and the occasional decapitated drug dealer, is being transformed into an “upscale” mini-mall. Yesterday the Daily News updated us on the process. Even Jesus is for sale at the new Limelight Marketplace. The former Chelsea church that became one of the …

This new condo tower has cantilevered its floors to hover out over the High Line Park.

Tuesday, 10pm, Chelsea Twink 1: What should I go as for Halloween?Twink 2: A top?Twink 1: Funny. And you can go as “sobriety.”

Chelsea, Sunday, 9pm Drunk Girl On Cell: “I had a DREAM!” Passing Twinks (In Unison): “A dream about YOU, baby!”,

Chelsea’s notorious Limelight, the nightspot that gave us club kids, Amanda Lepore, and a murdered drug dealer or two, is finally about to reopen as a sort of mall. PageSix reports that the venue will be called Limelight Marketplace. Jack Menashe, who owned nightclub Lounge in SoHo, is turning the long-vacant, 1849 Gothic Revival church into Limelight Marketplace with the …

Despite the intermittent showers, the folks at Folsom Street East pulled off another huge success, with Chelsea’s W. 28th mobbed at times from end to end. As per usual, there was a guy with a snake, a guy with a parrot, and just to shake up tradition – a guy with a weasel. Also: drunk boys, leather boys, and pony …

As you can see, we’re due for another wet Folsom East Fair today, but the forecast only calls for a half-inch of rain all day, so at best we’re probably only gonna get sprinkled on. When it started raining last year, the 10,000 or so folks in attendance had nowhere to run, so we all just covered our beers and …

Those perverts at the Folsom Street East fair asked that I post this updated flyer and mention that I’ll again be a “celebrity” judge at the 5:30pm porn star contest. If you recall or were there, the last time I judged the contest…well, let’s just say that no photos were appropriate for this here website thingy. The fair takes place …

This Sunday over 10,000 kinksters, friends, and looky-loos will crowd Chelsea’s W.28th Street for the 13th Annual Folsom Street East Fair. Performers this year include Billboard Top Ten recording artist Sylvia Tosun, as well as Peppermint, Reina, Guy, the Johns, Kissy Kamikaze, The Imperial Court of New York, Noa Tylo and Fredrick Ford. Porn producer extraordinaire Chi Chi LaRue will …

The long-anticipated opening of the High Line, an elevated freight rail line turned into park space along the west side of Manhattan, is scheduled for June 15th. However the city is limiting admittance to 1700 persons at a time. During peak periods, access to the facility would be limited to the southernmost entrance at Gansevoort Street and interested visitors would …