Welcome to everyone who’s coming to the blog from the NYTBR. I’m sure you’ll find much of interest here, including updates on what has transpired since the beloved Stanley Bard was ousted as manager over the summer. In a nutshell, the long term manager and majority owner of the hotel Stanley Bard, was accused by the minority share holders Marlene Krauss and David Elder of being a bad businessman and forced out in a hostile takeover. The bottom line is, the hotel had simply become too valuable and the millions that their shares were producing for them just wasn’t enough. They brought in glass tower developers Richard Born and Ira Drukier to manage the hotel. And the bohemian vibe of the Hotel was forever altered as media outrage ensued. We’d like to see the Bard family reinstated, and for that reason the attention generated by the review is doubly welcome.
It’s nice to get a reviewer (Jeff Giles) who really knows how to write. What’s more, despite some of his more critical comments (which I thought were more or less fair enough), he seems to really get where I’m coming from with the book, and the comic/tragic vibe of the hotel. One correction: the book is not exactly a collection of the blog entries. About half of the material in the book has never appeared on the blog. — Ed Hamilton
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