Just when things were pretty quite on the home front, several “demand for payment” notices have gone up on doors around the building. Some of the notices are for relatively small sums of money ($3,000). Perhaps people are traveling and simply haven’t paid their rent in a month or so. So if you’re out of town, you may want to have someone take a look on your door. I’ve been seeing David Elder in the lobby this week, grinning his shit-eating grin. Perhaps this is why. He’s the guy who signed the demand notices. We are still awaiting the arrival of a new manager at which point surely Elder will be banished to the Hinterland, never to darken our doorway again. — Ed Hamilton
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6 responses to “Edler Grins; Residents Cringe”
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Give me my money! It’s my money! my siblings and I inherited a grand 16% stake in the hotel so I am entitled to run things! (Understand that if this doesn’t work out for me I may actually have to get a job and I don’t really know how to do anything.) Gimme! I want your bums on the street Bohemians!
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Trust me David Elder, even if you could get rid of the residents, that wouldn’t be enough to spin this pile of horseshit into cotton candy.Not even close.
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I think that you guys really over do it with hating the new management company. We live in a world where its about paying your rent on time, and bills on time, and if you dont do so of course in a normal building anywhere in the world you would be evicted. I dont see why people think they are above paying their rent. Everyone else in new york has to pay rent, and everywhere else in the world. Why do you hate these people so much, just cause they make people pay their rent? Or just because they are cleaning up the building? All i read on this blog the past year is about how much hatred you have towards your management company but your still living in the building, and most people who have been there a while are still living there. So what is your problem? Do you really want to make trouble with your management company, when you could try to work together with them to make the building nice?
Things change, plenty of people are being let go of their jobs, plenty are paying larger rents, this is not something that you can fight and win, change is innevitable.
Also its starting to sound very paranoid, how you look into everything like its so much more then it is, like they are out to get you over every little thing. I strongly doubt this is some big sick movie plot vendetta going on.
This is reality, this is life, especially new york life. Rents innevitably go up, people have to pay their rent or they will move out, things change and move forward and if people do not move forward they are stuck in the past.
When Bard was around everyone complained about him, now hes gone everyone is hailing him some sort of heroic figure. Costs go up, and things change, if Bard did the right thing this wouldnt be happening.LikeLike
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No, not everyone complained about the Bards. In fact, only the rare malcontent did. We all love Stanley. And tenants past and present pay/paid rent, a lot of rent, Mr. David Elder. The new regime has shown no appreciation for tenants nor for the history or culture of the hotel. The first communciation with tenants was a curt letter demanding rent. The first PR releae talked not about the legends of the place, but about the street front retail program. Perhaps you are one of the soulless undead who have moved to New York and tried, often successfully, to turn it into your bland hometown. But we will fight for the Chelsea and the Bards and what they represented in New York, in the world. What the new regime wants to do is not progress, it’s regression and desecration. All change is not good and I can cite many examples for you. The Chelsea under the Bards had a way of changing in its own way, with its own rhythm. Forcing Harvard MBA change upon it will destroy it. It will be nothing more than some nice bricks.
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Bard did the right thing. He put humanity ahead of crass profit, but he didn’t neglect profit. He walked a fine line between his business concerns and his love of artists, and people in general, a tightrope that would send Krauss, Eldr and the new Mr. Tilley hurtling earthward. . How do you think the hotel survived during recessions and the years when Chelsea was a bad nbeighborhood? How do you think it built its reputation as a hostelry for geniuses and social revolutionaries, like Storme Delaverie who made an inestimable contribution to gay rights? How? By the Bards’ hard work and dedication to their tenants and guests, and their vision of the hotel as something more than just as cash cow. Did the two minority shareholders demonstrate any visible interest in the place until Chelsea went upscale and rents and hotel rates began to rise? No. Did they demonstrate any interest in the people who lived there? No. With a paltry minority stake in the place, they engineered a takeover and expected everyone to fall to their knees apparently. It didn’t happen because they understood nothing about the place except in terms of rent per square foot. They suffer terribly in comparison to the Bards and New York knows it. We’ll fight on.
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Would you consider it progress if they tore down the coliseum in Rome, the Chrysler builkding in new York, or th metropolitan museum or the Louvre? Because Stanley’s Chelsa Hotel was a cultural institution as unique asech of those.
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