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Prepare For A Cold Winter

With all of the possible repairs needed around the Chelsea Hotel the first item on Andrew Tilley’s agenda is to inspect all fireplaces and chimneys.  Gee isn’t it funny that he waited until the end of November to Fireplace do this.  Heat in many rooms is sporadic at best as many contain tiny radiators and drafty 125 year old windows.  Because of this, a number of residents have to depend on their fireplaces for a valuable source of heat.  Shutting them down on the eve of what promises to be a very cold winter is simply not an option.

For a lot of tenants, using an electric heater is not an option either as the wiring will not support  them.  How about an upgrade on the 125 year old wiring system of the building.  We think that this a much more pressing problem than the fireplaces.  Although the Chelsea has periodic fires the fireplaces have never caused even a single one while the electrical system has been implicated in several. 

Tilley has claimed repeatedly that he will repair residents rooms if they have problems and bring them to his attention.  For the most part, he’s been pretty much all talk in this regard.  Therefore, we propose to start a list of repairs that need to be carried out in the tenant's apartments in this building.  We would appreciate your help in this regard. Please send us a list of any repairs in your apartment that you feel the management undertake.  You don’t have to tell us your name or your apartment number if you don’t want to our plan is to send this list to the HPD and see if we can’t get some real repairs around here, instead of these fake ones designed to harass people.

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6 responses to “Prepare For A Cold Winter”

  1. Uncle Drosselmayer Avatar
    Uncle Drosselmayer

    Does an infestation of mice count as a much needed repair? While this invisible milquetoast Tilley (does this guy ever work?) is worrying about the fireplaces (which work marvelously), I have nightly performances of The Nutcracker up here — eternal endless vermin — and the engineering staff doesn’t even have glue traps to give you! Pathetic. All I can say is…never had these problems under the Bards.

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    Anonymous

    My water bong broke. Please fix it.

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    Anonymous

    Ed – no real tenants will ever contribute to your list because we are all, unfortunately, too chicken sh*t to give up their anonymity.

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    Anonymous

    So, there were no mice when Stanley bard was in charge? They moved in with Tilley? Give me a break, the place has been a roach and mice infested place for 25 years!!!!! If someone can dispute this, I would love to hear that!!!

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  5. Bugged Out Avatar
    Bugged Out

    I wouldn’t say “mice infested”, that might be going overboard. But of course there are going to be a few mice. There are mice everywhere in New York. Whether they’re controlled or not is another question. My cat brings me a live mouse from time to time and its no big deal, but I have been in my apartment for several years and only recently have I noticed a major cockroach infestation. Before then, none or virtually none. And my place is super clean, no food left out. So something is definitely changed in terms of pest control. PS we hate sticky traps for mice, its cruel and the mice lay and suffocate for days. Spring-loaded traps generally much more humane.

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    Agreed

    Dear Bugged Out, I totally agree. I lived here for many years under the Bards and, while I would see an occasional mouse or bug, the problem has worsened dramatically since BD and now Tilley as neither of the new managers are spending dollar one on the basic physical maintenance of the building – except for Tilley’s multi-million dollar, two month long, saga of painting the elevator doors. Which looked fine to begin with. (They’re already scratched and scraped two days later). The thing few people seem to understand is that these new managers continually speak of change, but choose instead to spend their budget dollars primarily on salaries for themselves or flunky lieutenants rather than re-invest these dollars in maintaining the property. Bring Back the Bards PLEASE.

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