Chelsea News

In the last few months Kristin Olenik, 26, a leggy model with a 24-inch waist, did something she never thought she would do.

Hendrik Hertzberg of the New Yorker got up last week at a bar in Chelsea to welcome guests at a fundraiser of a group that supports electing presidents by popular vote.

Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Emily Lloyd joined town, county and state officials in Wappinger, N.Y., to mark the next phase of construction at Shaft 6B, a key component of the $1 billion bypass tunnel project that will address leaks in the Delaware Aqueduct.

Following a New York Post report that prostitutes are turning to Airbnb to host escort services , New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio repeated his reservations about the popular home rental website and its future business in the city.

A longtime Manhattan dance studio will have to move out of its West 19th Street space by the end of summer, after a looming rent increase priced them out of the neighborhood, owners said.

Oscar Mora of FlowerSchool New York gives students tips on creating balance in floral arrangements, and filling holes with more flowers Spring flowers are slowly starting to bloom - in the park, on your dresses, and in a vase in your apartment.

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Jennifer Garner stopped by "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" on Wednesday, April 9, and revealed that although Affleck is a wonderful father and husband, he pretty much leaves all the hard work for her.

What's so special about Indian sandwiches? Well, everything. Rather than deli meat piled high, they tend to rely on smaller portions of cooked meat or veggies, liberally doused with spices, and rolled up into a wrap, pressed into a bun, or spread between two pieces of bread.

The former first daughter, the executive producer of, "Of Many," will introduce the short documentary at a Tribeca Film Festival preview screening in New York on Wednesday.

As warmer weather finally arrives, spring-cleaning New Yorkers get a chance to dispose of their old electronics properly in an eWaste Recycling Drive hosted by Tekserve, New York's Store for Technology, in conjunction with the Lower East Side Ecology Center.

Thanks to Inc. reporter Will Yakowicz , there is now a highly entertaining granular record of how Chelsea apartment dweller Ari Teman was able to recover from unwittingly airBNB-ing his place to a sex party organizer.

Dan Witz is painfully familiar with the sweat-stained violence of New York hardcore punk concerts.

Photographer Elinor Carucci has gotten used to strangers buying photos of her life.

Just like Dylan Thomas, writer Melisa Annis found herself walking the streets of a strange city.

In the two weeks since L'Wren Scott, fashion designer and Mick Jagger's girlfriend, hanged herself with a black satin tie in her luxury Manhattan apartment, we've all heard the "answers": The big city offers fleeting reward, some say.

"Wandering the floor of the Outsider Art Fair can sometimes feel like being transported to another planet, or at least half-way around the globe," says Andrew Edlin, CEO of Wide Open Arts, the producer of the Fair, which runs from May 8 - 11 at Chelsea's Center 548 .

When we walked into the back corner of a Chelsea cafA© last week, a beautiful blonde woman smiled at us.

Celebrating 10 years of bringing popular and rare whisky brands to thirsty New Yorkers, Whisky Live is set to return to Pier Sixty at Chelsea Piers on April 9. Hosted each year by Whisky Magazine, the grand tasting brings together hundreds of Scotch, rye and bourbon labels big and small with hundreds of thirsty New Yorkers.

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