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The townhouse at 338 West 15th Street opened its doors to potential buyers on a hot spring day, when Chelsea's sidewalks were thick with tourists spilling over from the High Line and the chill of winter felt like a hazy and half-forgotten dream.

This summer, New Yorkers may find their next workout on a rooftop, by a pool or in a park only a few steps from their front door.

Visitors to the High Line in New York City find a new perspective above Manhattan's Meatpacking District with trendy food, music and something New York pedestrians rarely enjoy – a leisurely pace.

Someone in the trendy Manhattan neighborhood has slapped posters on light poles in an effort to lecture misbehaving tourists on how to behave when visiting the High Line and other local hot spots.

You know the High Line? That public park? That really lovely example of a civic structure? Well, this Chelsea resident is angry that it's so, you know, beautiful.

The special show was held in their honour and the I Kissed A Girl singer, 27, was the star attraction.

Artist Matthew Brandt will have his first solo show in New York starting tomorrow.

From jocks to swimsuits, tanks to windbreakers, Universal Gear in Chelsea has been the go-to fashion HQ for gay New Yorkers for years.

Despite any economic uncertainty it appears there is still a place for luxury packaging after the annual Luxe Pack event in New York posted record attendance figures.

Uncertainty is adrift on the liveliness of Lotus of Siam . Not much activity has been fluttering around the Thai institution since Vegas duo Bill and Saipin Chutima's left their New York location behind, although an official closing has not been announced.

Leo Koenig, Inc. 545 West 23rd Street, 212-334-9255 Chelsea May 24 - June 30, 2012 Opening: Thursday, May 24, 6 - 9 PM Web Site It is our great pleasure to present an exhibition of new work by Nicole Eisenman, the artist's fourth solo presentation at Leo Koenig Inc.

A veritable Who's Who of current elected officials and prospective candidates gathered at Chelsea nightclub Elmo on the evening of May 13 for the Jim Owles Gay Liberal Democratic Club's Pride Awards Ceremony.

On Monday evening,A JimmyjaneA and The Peggy Siegal Company hosted a special NY screening of Sony PicturesA Classics' Hysteria , which opens in New York and Los Angeles on May 18th, 2012.

Film lovers - sci-fi fans in particular - are surely familiar with the work of "Futurist Designer" Syd Mead , and even the masses ought to recognize his groundbreaking work for the likes of Blade Runner , Aliens and TRON , among other canonical examples of the genre.

With the finger-pointing well under way at Dewey & LeBoeuf, the once-proud law firm on the brink of dissolution, its partners agree the former chairman, Steven H. Davis, shoulders a large chunk of the blame for its stunning fall.

The buyer who recently closed on a former church-run asylum in Chelsea is tearing down the building and developing a six-story residential building, Manhattan Loft Guy reported.

Right now, New Yorkers have the unique opportunity to take in two of George Bernard Shaw's masterpieces -- works frequently studied on the page, but infrequently brought to the stage.

Hotel Americano 518 West 27th Street, New York; hotel-americano.com . 56 rooms from $325 . No eco-rating. For many years, the heart of New York's Chelsea warehouse district was a strangely hotel-free zone.

The John Travolta sex scandal - two male masseurs claim the Be Cool star groped them - is about to be upgraded from absurd to surreal with an announcement by the unnamed accusers' lawyer, Okorie Okorocha, that "there's a bunch of accusers who have similar accusations." Says Okorocha, "I'm still vetting their stories.