Chelsea News

New York's emerging singer-songwriter Joanna Mosca continues enjoying superstar company in the Top Ten on the FMQB AC Chart this week.

From left: the Toy Museum of New York, inside St. Ann and Holy Trinity Church at 157 Montague Street, and Empire Diner at 210 10th Avenue In Midtown, Italian flat bread sandwich chain Piada has opened a location on the corner of 53rd Street and Lexington Avenue.

Have you ever dreamed of taking over an entire hotel, just like those kids in Hotel for Dogs or like Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez ? Well, now you can do it without having to set up a makeshift animal shelter or get all nationalistic and chummy with the military.

Elga Wimmer Chelsea 526 West 26th Street, 3rd Floor, 212-206-0006 November 17 - December 19, 2009 Opening: Thursday, November 19, 5 - 7 PM Web Site New Empire presents a recent series of paintings by German Tagle selected by Esperanza Leon, director and curator of SOLAR in East Hampton, New York.

This cramped Chelsea office could be mistaken for a telemarketing operation, except for the small bookshelf lined with titles like Delirious New York and Women Artists of Italian Futurism.

Once a disused railroad that ran 30 feet above the New York streets, the High Line has been transformed into an extraordinary urban park Guy Martin A dramatic view of the High Line, on the corner of Gansevoort Street and Washington Street.

In Section: NY comPRESSed >> Posted In: Art , Manhattan , Tourism , Culture , Money Posted By: Jerry Portwood Dia Art Foundation's director, Philippe Vergne, announced today that Dia would construct a new space in Chelsea and finally have a more visible NYC presence.

Here's our guide to the city's top rock and roll destinations. If music is the lifeblood of New York City, then rock and roll is its heartbeat.

After years of scouring Manhattan real estate for a base in New York, a troubled process that was bedeviled by setbacks, the Dia Art Foundation has found a new home on the site of its old home.

Ashley Olsen and Mary Kate Olsen continue their home-hunting. The Olsen twins are still home-hunting. Our Chelsea spies spotted the two recently at the Oa Neill Building, a sparkling condo at 655 Sixth Ave.

Want Fries with That? Crinkle cut, crispy, and salted; if you want fried carbs, go for it.

John Connelly Presents Chelsea 625 West 27th Street, 212-337-9563 October 30 - December 5, 2009 Opening: Friday, October 30, 11 - 1 AM Web Site For his latest project Marco Boggio Sella has conceived of two new exhibitions, "Virtual America" and "New Painting from L'Atelier Rouge", to be presenting simultaneously as the artist's third and fourth ...

Priska C. Juschka Fine Art Chelsea 547 West 27th Street, 2nd Floor, 212-244-4320 November 5, 2009 - January 2, 2010 Opening: Thursday, November 5, 6 - 9 PM Web Site Priska C. Juschka Fine Art is pleased to present Little Deaths , marking Emily Noelle Lambert 's second solo exhibition at the gallery.

Mixed Greens, Glow Room Project Space Chelsea 531 West 26th Street, 212-331-8888 October 15 - December 13, 2009 Opening: Thursday, November 12, 6 - 8 PM Web Site Mixed Greens is pleased to announce a timely window installation by Kim Beck.

There are positive signs on the horizon for the New York City hospitality market with figures showing positive signs and new hotels opening.

On an overcast Saturday, I joined author and blogger Alissa Walker in Manhattan for a walking tour of the Highline.

Cheim & Read Chelsea 547 West 25th Street, 212-242-7727 November 19 - December 19, 2009 Opening: Thursday, November 19, 6 - 8 PM Web Site Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by Lynda Benglis, including large-scale bronze wall-hangings cast from urethane foam over wire, as well as free-standing non-objective sculptural ...

The Malin + Goetz storefront in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood originally served as the company's all-inclusive headquarters: boutique, offices, showroom, and e-commerce shipping center.

Some hardened New Yorkers yearn for the New York of the 1970s and '80s, when the Smiths and the Ramones played in underground bars, and crack ruled parts of the city.

German artist Anselm Reyle evokes candy wrap. Most of his new paintings and sculptures at Gagosian Gallery in New Yorka s Chelsea district shine and glisten.