If you’ve been having leaky faucets and clogged toliets, you can rest easy now beleagered Chelseaite, for your problems are about to be solved.  Our new manager, Andrew Tilley, has just hired Arnold Tamasar as Director of Operations of our budding boutique hotel. 
     Tamasar, who inherits Glennon Travis’s old title, was previously Assistant Director of Housekeeping and Style at the WW_wheat_grass New York Times Square Hotel, in which capacity he received the prestigious Kimberly-Clark Award for Restroom Ambiance and Cleanliness.

"…At the W New York Times Square Hotel, the ambiance is just as exquisite. The style is rather uniform for warmth and color, says Arnold Tamasar, the assistant director of housekeeping and style at the hotel.

The restrooms overflow with greenery. There are three tiers of wheat grass, Egyptian green limestone and white oak doors with gingko leaves embedded in the frosted glass. For special occasions such as weddings or wine tastings, the hotel adds an extra touch by providing a restroom attendant to hand out towels."
     I can’t wait.  “Consistency is very important,” says Tamasar. “We clean religiously.”  Well that sounds great.  But the most pressing question remains: can he keep the junkies out? 

(Photo: Our Friends over at Hotel Chatter)

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13 responses to “New Hotel Chelsea Director of Operations is a Restroom Specialist”

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    Anonymous

    The boutiquing of the Chelsea Hotel begins in full force…

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  2. (How Long) Tilley Goes Back To Paramount? Avatar
    (How Long) Tilley Goes Back To Paramount?

    Tilley represents the expensive variety of cheap consumerism, start and end of story. It happens to be all he knows, his actual aspiration was to become this presumptuous. His optimistic letter to residents pure propaganda. What welcoming party are you referencing? Tilley may be overstating the enthusiasm with which he’s appeared on the scene except from the vast minority of Chelseaites clinging onto whichever breeze is blowin’ hardest at the moment. The majority past and present will continue to view Tilley as merely another obstacle to restoring the Bard Family to their rightful place behind the desk. Certainly the accent will win over a number of the midwest tourists and heck even a few residents but it’ll take more than a mouthful o’ lucky charms to fill the Bards shoes; insofar as most are concerned, they’re still wearin them.

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    Anonymous

    the Bards ran the Chelsea for 50 years without need of a “bathroom specialist” whatever that is but times they are a changin – evidently

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  4. Old & Crabby Avatar
    Old & Crabby

    What is this wheat grass? Is it something you can smoke?

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  5. Big_Butt_Man Avatar
    Big_Butt_Man

    Andrew Tilley is welcome to clean my bathroom anytime…………..

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    Anonymous

    I thought each floor had its own “self-appointed” bathroom specialist!

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  7. Miss H Avatar
    Miss H

    I would like to say a word on behalf of the junkies, potheads, and raging drunks of the Chelsea Hotel.
    Each created more, contributed more to the world and were finer human beings than Krauss, Elder and Tilley put together.
    Burroughs was a genius, as were Dylan Thomas, Brendan Behan, Herbert Huncke, Janis, Jimi, Jerry Garcia, Gregory Corso and many more I dare not mention because their families are still alive. Huncke, for instance, was a gentleman and a very kind man and was doing at least five drugs in the last year of his life, when he also did some of his best work. This is a society where most of the population is dependent on pharmaceuticals and essentially slaves to the pharmaceutical companies, starting in grade school. These legal drugs are far from harmless as has been demonstrated over and over again. (Columbine?) I’ll take Chelsea Hotel junkies over soulless yuppies any day of the week. Marlene Krauss, David Elder and Andrew Tilley are creating nothing of lasting value, they are creating just a cash cow, while bleeding the hotel of its character and voiding its purpose. If there’s a God and Heaven the Chelsea Hotel addicts will get in long before Krauss, Elder and Tilley. The latter are scum dressed up to look respectable, but they do nothing to earn real respect. They are bit by bit destroying a magical and unique place. Every meager bone they throw to Stanley is the bone of a dead artist.

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  8. Serin Avatar
    Serin

    Yah got to Fight for your Right to PAAAAAAARTAY Girls and Gals of the Chelsea!!! Even we poor souls of bohemia in Australia have been hit with the tar brush of Gentrification.
    You would have thought such a young country would have wanted to celebrate their youth, but no, we are the Nanny/ Pop state – most are caught up with the great capitalistic dream of owning stuff – Not owning their lives!
    I am afraid I know little about the day to day of your trials and tribulations but I have just read the blog bit about the new plans to give the place better rest rooms….beware are my thoughts that is where it starts. People are getting in at the bottom and working up…and you know what sort of people do that sort of thing….Parasites (lol)

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  9. Carrie Bedsore /Cherry Ramone / Rob from Aus Avatar

    The junkies of NY will be abuzz- the Chelsea is installing boutique hammering facilities! If this wasn’t so bizarre, I’d cry.

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  10. Sid Avatar
    Sid

    Needle party on 1st floor tonight. See you there residents… you know who you are. – S.v.

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  11. ginger Avatar
    ginger

    I am a resident of the past the days of..sidv and nan now living in another world <i miss it all and <i am doing a book with photos now of poverty in the 3rd world country mex.
    everybody who is there now I do not know. I wold like to however, get in touch with the mercura girls…
    from one of the original chelsea girls now I did not change all that much in all these years at the age of, 55 my body is still that of a 35 yr. old. my health is still very good. I wold like to do a gallery show there in, nyc at some point.
    that’s all I want to say for now…..

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  12. Merrilee Cohen & Rachel Cohen-Lunning Avatar
    Merrilee Cohen & Rachel Cohen-Lunning

    Are you the same Ginger who photographed MERCURA so very much in the eighties….including the cat Club Dancers? Are you back in New York?
    Look forward to hearing from you!
    Rachel & Merrilee

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  13. ooopinionsss Avatar
    ooopinionsss

    How you think when the economic crisis will end? I wish to make statistics of independent opinions!

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