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Hello Chelsea! Stay connected with the latest updates from around town. Let's dive in! ☀️

In today's newsletter:

  • How one Eighth Avenue storefront helped reshape Chelsea's LGBTQ nightlife

Also on today's calendar: Demystifying Kindergarten Admissions and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: What did the wall say to the other wall. 🤔 (Answer below!)

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  • Friday: A shower and t-storm; humid, with a high of 82 and low of 67 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• The 1931 Rothman's Pawn Shop Building (blogspot.com) — A longtime Eighth Avenue building in Chelsea has evolved from a 19th-century undertaker's home to Rothman's Pawn Shop and, later, a pioneering gay-friendly restaurant central to the neighborhood's LGBTQ social scene. The story traces how changing storefronts at 149 Eighth Avenue mirrored Chelsea's broader transformation, right up to today's Mexican restaurant on the site.
   

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