Knife truck spotted on 23rd Street between 9th & 10th Avenues?! Evidently there is a Greenpoint-based truck that rides around to different neighborhoods in NYC (see weekly schedules on their Instagram) and sharpens your knives if you just bring them up to the window. Article about the truck here, and a snippet below:

If you know ball, you know that the Chosen One a/k/a The King a/k/a LBJ took his talents this past summer from the City of Angels to the City of Brotherly Love. Despite, however, now playing for the Philadelphia 76ers, Lebron is reportedly living in NYC and commuting to Philly every practice and home game day via helicopter.

Our neighbors in the 20th to 23rd Street range are really executing on fall colors right now. See a few pictures from around the neighborhood here and a short guided tour/call to action from one our chief investigative photojournalists here. Fall colors 10/10.

We live in an eminently walkable city but still have to appreciate the sweet city rides we occasionally see around town. Here’s what appears to be a 1972 Pontiac Firebird parked today on 27th Street between 10th & 11th Avenues. Designed in the 1960s to compete with the Ford Mustang, these babies were discontinued in 2002 (go down an internet rabbit hole like we did if you like). The spirit lives on in our neighborhood.

Neighbor Thuy, the president of a block association a little to the south of us, writes in with news: the 200 W23W24 Street Block Association, covering 23rd & 24th Streets between 7th & 8th Avenues, is holding a public meeting on November 11, 2026 at 7pm. Zoom link for the meeting here (note that your camera has to be on and your name visible to join). Agenda for the meeting is below, which touches on important issues in and around our neighborhood:

We see a line around the block this morning at Chelsea Industrial, the events space on 28th Street & 11th Avenue, for a pop-up called Part Two: Luxury Marketplace. The pop-up brings together something like 40-50 luxury brands selling at cut rates. Here’s an Instagram reel about it and here’s a description from a Substack article:

Final answer: No, it’s a city of perfect gentlemen (Ed. note: High Line 28’s investigative journalists are funded entirely by membership dues). Spotted in lower Chelsea this week, the sign you see here refers to an event at City Winery this Friday, November 6, 2026 that tours the country and tries to answer a question that this organization’s finest intellectuals (also funded by your dues) have struggled over for centuries. Here’s an Instagram post about the show and here’s 13 minutes of highlights; the premise here is that female comics share unhinged dating stories and a panel of the other gender’s best and brightest weigh in with what exactly happened there:

If you’ve lived on the block for even a limited period of time, you know about John, who has a white beard and is in a wheelchair, regularly around the southwest corner of 29th Street & 10th Avenue (Ed. note as referenced in comments: he sometimes gives other names as well, including Ronny). We get write-ins pretty frequently about John, which are generally to the effect of “someone really needs to do something about this.” So let’s talk about John and the homeless situation.