Commentor Deja vu writes in to remind us once again that the more things change, the more they remain the same:
Hmmm, I've just been reading Florence Turner's book, "At the Chelsea." Here's what it says on page 12 about minority shareholder Marlene Krauss's father, one of Stanley's father's partners and co-owner of the hotel:
"Krauss, expressionless and tough, continued to wreck the building, apparently having no interest in its intrinsic beauty, breaking more of the big mirrors and building more partitions, so that big rooms were reduced to little ones with paper walls through which occupants could hear one another. However,those with leases refused to move and large pockets of rooms managed to preserve their original calm."
The Chelsea survived once. Will it survive again?
Living with Legends 
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