Kudos to John Sutter and his team for the Sept. 29 launch of Chelsea Now, a new free weekly distributed in Chelsea and nearby environs. The first edition, a 32-page tabloid, is an excellent debut.
Features -- and therefore areas of coverage -- include the Chelsea club scene and its relationship with area police, local restaurants and bars, area crime, community news, cultural events, editorial commentary, and the arts.
There are several ways to interact with the paper's staff -- and thereby help direct its coverage as it finds its legs -- including a Web site, a gossip hotline, requests for news tips, and letters of comment.
I was impressed by how timely the first issue was -- stories featured in that day's major dailies were also included in this upstart weekly -- and I hope that they're able to maintain that level of local reportage.
Worth picking up if you live, work, or go out in the neighborhood! And it's one of the better neighborhood papers I've come across. read more