As we reported in an earlier blog post, in the early morning hours of Oct 13, Star Lounge, the club in the basement of the Chelsea, was broken into. They had kept us up to all hours the night before with their throbbing, thumping “music”, and so we didn’t give a good goddamn—they are decidedly unwelcoming to Chelsea Hotel guests and residents anyway—and, frankly, we were kind of hoping that the whole place got trashed. We were more concerned that our 24-hour security patrol seemed to be asleep on the job while this brazen crime was perpetrated.
Now, however, we learn from Chelsea Now that the thief apparently came in through the front window (!) and walked off with a DJ’s $3000 audio mixing console! Congratulations, righteous thief dude, on a job well done! And now, may we suggest that, like Robin Hood (or maybe Obama), you spread the wealth around: take that purloined mixing board out to the ‘burbs of New Jersey and set up a mind-blowing, ear-shattering Rave-To-Wake-The-Dead. Take from the rich of Manhattan and give to the poor, underprivileged bridge-and-tunnelers—as that’s obviously who’s hanging out in Star Lounge these days anyway.
But the ravers or rappers or whatever the hell they call themselves are apparently a determined lot. They were back at it again this weekend, undermining the foundations of the Chelsea with pulsating blasts of super-sucky crapola-rock. They must have picked up another electronic annoyance machine at the Jumping Jackass Mart (or wherever the hell you get them—probably the same place where they punch holes in the muffler of your wildass supercool bitchin’ “Hog” so you can park it in front of residential buildings and rev the engine at 4 in the morning, impressing all the hot chicks with IQs of 50 points or less.)
Seriously, though, folks, Star Lounge reportedly owes tens of thousands of dollars in back rent to the hotel. The hotel management is attempting to evict tenants who owe a lot less. So what gives? (The answer, as much else around here, revolves around hotel layabout David Elder. Stay tuned to the blog for further elucidation in coming weeks.) — Ed Hamilton
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