 During
my tenure as Editor of Chelsea Now, the paper broke several stories,
including landlords converting residential buildings to illegal hotels,
small fashion entrepreneurs forced out of Garment District by real estate
interests, and tenant harassment and displacement at the Hotel Breslin
(cited by the New York Times). Meanwhile, our story on efforts to preserve
a historic rowhouse and former Underground Railroad stop led to action
by local politicians and Community Board 4.
As a journalist and editor who likes to tell stories
in multiple formats, I also expanded the paper to include several weekly
or bi-weekly columns and packaged stories in myriad ways—including special
issues, article series and photo spreads—to lend depth and variety to
the paper. Multi-part series included Chelsea’s Bayview women’s prison,
the Hotel Chelsea, and recent lawsuits brought against the NYPD and
Hudson River Park Trust by protesters at the 2004 Republican National
Convention. Finally, I focused on creating high-impact, visually appealing covers to attract readers to our newsboxes.
Below is a sample of those story packages and covers as they ran in Chelsea Now in 2007 and 2008.
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