“Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen,” a musical, now showing on 27th Street

Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen, a musical based on a Japanese manga novel by the same name about a sex worker in 20th Century France, is playing from September 25, 2026 through January 3, 2027 at The Culture Club, the former site of Sleep No More. You can go inside the rehearsals here and see a write-up from New York Theatre guide here, excerpted below:

In Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen off Broadway — the first Japanese manga to be adapted into an American musical — Colette (Beetlejuice's Sophia Anne Caruso) is a dreamer in twentieth century Paris who uses her writing to cast herself out of her place at a brothel. In her writing, she transforms the fantasies, confessions, and private sorrows of her eccentric clients, turning herself from object into observer. All the while, she has a desire even she can't outrun: a lingering, destructive attachment to Léon, her childhood love.

Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen is a thrilling and sharp new musical about passion, connection, and the power of writing. Moyoco Anno is one of Japan’s most renowned manga artists, known for her complex look into character psychology, and now her story comes to the stage. Now, Tony Award winner Rob Ashford directs this new musical from Sheik, who passed away in 2026, and Leah Nanako Winkler.

We love this space on 27th Street and highly recommend seeing any show you can here.

Comic Con back at convention center

North America’s (and this block’s) most attended fan convention, Comic Con, is back this year at our very own the Javits Center (note: the largest fan convention in the world is “Comiket,” held in Tokyo every December). Running on its usual Thursday to Sunday schedule (October 8 - October 11, 2026), the gathering celebrates comic books, graphic novels, and the like, and approximately 250,000 people were expected to attend this year. One of our chief investigative photojournalists compiled the gallery, featuring Captain Jack Sparrow, that you see here.

Inside Javits, you can wander from comic-specific station to station and find whatever comic books or figurines or trinkets that you’re into. For us though, it’s really about the swarms of ghostbusters and power rangers and catwomen who descend upon and wander around our block and the High Line and the subway and the Vessel year after year. Happy to have you all back next year.

“FBI” filming on 28th Street on October 19th

The guy’s name who created Law & Order is the one and only Executive Producer Dick Wolf (go ahead and picture his white name against the black background). Executive Producer Dick Wolf isn’t evidently making enough on Law & Order royalties and so he went ahead and created a sister-looking show on CBS called FBI. Season 9 of FBI is filming next Sunday and Monday (October 19 and 20, 2026) on 28th Street between 10th & 11th Avenues. Here’s the trailer, and here’s the Law & Order sound effect. ‍

“Tulsa King,” starring Sylvester Stallone, filming on 28th Street on Oct 12

You might not have thought a show called “Tulsa King” would be filming in our neighborhood on October 12, 2026, but here we are. Here’s the Wikipedia and here’s the trailer for Tulsa King; it stars Sylvester Stallone as a mob caporegime named Dwight who was released from prison in New York and is then sent by his boss to Oklahoma, evidently to establish criminal operations down under. Season 4 (code name “King Street”) is filming here next week, and so you get the sense that Dwight might have gotten a little homesick.

We love a good mob movie around here and the trailer looks like a party. Sly Stallone is set against 50 Cent music in the background, and we see a Suge Knight-type character, one of the guys from Silicon Valley, and even Pat McAfee in the trailer. I will say I think it’s about time we stop casting 80-year olds as gangsters so we don’t keep running into this type of problem, though even if the Silent Generation isn’t quite ready to pass the torch (whether it be in the mafia or government or the film industry or etc.), we’re happy to have Tulsa King on our block.

Dexter “museum experience” comes to Chelsea Industrial (October 10-11, 2026)

Fresh off the heels of a Dexter film shoot on 19th Street & 10th Avenue a few weeks ago, Dexter returns to our neighborhood yet again, this time for a “museum experience” at Chelsea Industrial, the events space on 28th Street between 10th & 11th Avenues. You can read about it here and see a little tour of it on Instagram here.

This is supposed to be an “immersive experience” with props and pools of bloody water and the like to promote “Dexter: Resurrection, Season 2,” which is the sequel to the original Dexter series. That new Dexter season premiers on October 30, 2026.

Italian bathroom appliance brand called “CEA” sets up shop on 29th Street

Neighbor Bridget wrote in about a month ago now about a new bathroom fixture showroom moving into the long vacant retail storefront right next to the Mexican restaurant Kahlo, on 29th Street between 10th & 11th Avenues. The storefront sign has now gone up and we see that it is for CEA, headquartered in Milan, which based on its Instragram has a hyper-clean, crisp, minimalist, contemporary vibe. Happy to see a tenant in this space.

Dog of the day (with stick)

Amazing action shot on 24th Street between 8th & 9th Avenues this morning. Sent in by a wildlife photographer who would like to remain anonymous. This is the type of energy we’re looking for around here.

Torn up roads in our neighborhood probably won’t be fixed for weeks

Currently the roads around our neighborhood are a bit torn up. To the left here is a picture of 11th Avenue around 29th Street; to the right is a map of the street construction, and you can trace that very cursed green line of construction/destruction from 11th Avenue from 30th Street all the way down to 22nd Street; and then 22nd Street and 26th Street are also torn up. And so what exactly is going on here and how much longer is it going to last?

We had the same question and did a little digging. NYC maintains a “Permit Management System” accessible here where you can get a sense of any street construction you’re curious about. The permit for this particular construction opened last Friday, September 25, 2026, and is valid until October 30, 2026—which is probably the outer bound of how long this is likely to last but gives you a sense of how long it is likely to last. The permit type is for “Contract Roadway Milling,” with “milling” being the process of grinding off and resurfacing the top layer of a roadway. This is like a zamboni for the street, the purpose being to fix cracks and potholes.

In NYC, the Department of Transportation typically waits 2-3 weeks before resurfacing a road after grinding it off (“About 80% of roads are resurfaced within 3 weeks of milling, with 25% completed within 2 weeks.”). During this “cure” period, utilities like ConEd get the chance to repair their pipes and cables. Because so much of NYC’s infrastructure is underground, NYC has a way longer “cure” period than other cities before a road is resurfaced.

Upshot is that we’re likely not going to have repaved roads until mid-October.

Update 10/10/26: It looks like the 11th Avenue how now been resurfaced though not yet painted with dividing and bike lane lines. 26th & 22nd Street remain in their “milled” state.

High Line staircase on 26th Street now set to be complete in October 2026

Our friends at the High Line write with news that the new staircase we’re getting up to the High Line on 26th Street & 10th Ave is now set to open in October 2026 rather than September 2026. Evidently the reason for the slight delay is that an essential item from Canada is taking its time to get here, and so we can do what we always really try to do and just kind of blame Canada for our problems. Canada, get it together on our wildfires, staircase, and like all the other things too. Thanks to the folks at the High Line for keeping us updated.

New Equinox on our block has an official opening: November 10

We’ve written a few times now about the new Equinox opening on 28th & 11th, at the incredible Terminal Warehouse space. The Equinox folks (Dominick and Alyssa) now inform us that a date is set for the opening: November 10, 2026! Reminder that this will be “destination club” that you need a premium membership for (though if you go to the Hudson Yards location, you can go here); the focus is on weights rather than cardio; and you get a discount if you join early as a founding member, which you can do here.

Excited to announce this because other than our Timothee Chalamet and gardening posts, the new Equinox is easily gets the most write-ins. Thank you Dominick and Alyssa!

Longest Table, an outside potluck lunch, is next Sunday, October 4

Neighborhood force Maryam Banikarim (see her podcast here) is back at it again next weekend with The Longest Table, which is a name that just about tells you exactly what it is. This is a neighborhood potluck at an extremely long table down on 21st Street between 9th & 10th Avenues. You bring yourself and the food you made; others do the same; and we take it from there. Since Maryam started The Longest Table in 2022, it has absolutely taken off (Good Morning America clip here) and more than 1,000 people showed up to last year’s table. You can register here (only a few tickets left as of the time of this posting); the lunch runs from 12-2pm on Sunday, October 4.

We’ll be in attendance, which just about blows up your excuse that you don’t know anyone who’s going now doesn’t it? Email us if you’re planning on going and we’ll see you there.

*Reminder as well that The Longest Table is searching for a chief of staff, which we’ve previously written about.

Penthouse apartment at 15 Hudson Yards finally within reach for you

We’ve been tracking like a hawk the (or at least a) penthouse apartment at 15 Hudson Yards since it was first listed in September 2021 for $29.5 million. Well we’re pleased to report that in September 2026, the price of Apt “PH88C” at 15 Hudson Yards dropped another $2 million (after a steady downward slope over the last five years)—and it is now on the market for the absolute basement, bargain price of $17.95 million. You might call it the most expensive current apartment listing in the West Chelsea/Hudson Yards area, and you would be right, but we might call it a steal and practically a giveaway at that price, and we would also be right. The mark of an intelligent block association is the ability to post two conflicting thoughts on our website at the same time, or something.

Friends, this is the moment where we remind you that you’ve already missed your shot repeatedly apartment-wise in this neighborhood, including on Bad Bunny’s, Ariana Grande’s, and Kendall Roy’s apartments. Don’t be an error repeater; get in touch with Corcoran today, and bring us along for the walkthrough.