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.

With a few pictures from around the neighborhood!

The principal problems with your 20s are that you don’t have any money, you don’t understand the importance of sleep, and your friends occasionally want to go to places that are very crowded and where the floors are sticky. On the flip side you are better looking than you’ll probably ever be (though you’ll have to look at pictures 6 years later to figure this out) and you’re not quite expected to actualize on all those life expectations yet. And so what do you do when you want to re-live the glory days, and in a place that has appropriate spacing and floors? You go to Georgie’s, on 18th Street & 8th Ave, which opened in June 2026.