Last Friday evening, a mysterious Asian man was spotted sitting in the Chelsea Hotel lobby.He seemed agitated, unable to relax, as if eager to be up and on his way. At one point he exchanged heated words with an unknown woman, and was heard to criticize hotel management personnel.
Was he a spy? A paid assassin? A government scientist passing top secret documents to his Russian contact? And would our security force whip out Uzis and mow him down? Or slip a hood over his head and spirit him off to Guantanamo? Anything seems possible these days at the increasingly surreal Chelsea Hotel.
But relax, paranoid Bohemians, it was just Mr. Yee, a process server, here to serve notice to the tenth floor residents that they had ten days to chop down those rooftop trees and pitch those planters over the edge into the courtyard. Mr. Yee was angry because manager Andrew Tilley had hightailed it out of the hotel the moment the clock struck 5 (if not before), neglecting to sign the requisite paperwork. Now Mr. Yee apparently had to wait around for Tilley (or some other authorized joker) to reappear. (We still don’t know who the woman was, a latter day reincarnation of Mata Hari, perhaps.)
The plot thickens. For, correct me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t the Chelsea Hotel ’s law firm, Belkin Burden, serve their own notices? Marlene hired Belkin Burden, Stanley ’s old law firm, after she severed the relationship with Bob Olshever. Now, just a few months later, sources in the legal community tell us that Marlene’s relationship with Belkin Burden is on the rocks as well. Whether this is due to the botched handling of Arthur Nash’s DHCR harassment case, or whether it has more to do with the recent “Bob Dylan’s Room” illegal construction fiasco, Marlene is well known for leaving a trail of burned bridges and bloated corpses in her wake.
So, what’s it to be? Will Marlene have Belkin Burden for breakfast on her way to world domination? Or will a slumbering God awaken, and, in his righteous vengeance, finally strike her down. For further updates, clichés, and mixing of metaphors, stay tuned for the next installment. — Ed Hamilton
Living with Legends
Hotel Chelsea Blog
14 responses to “The Case of the Mysterious Mr. Yee:Are the Days of Chelsea Hotel Law Firm Belkin Burden Numbered?”
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Belkin Berden may not have wanted to get involved, Ed, since it was clearly Tilley’s Management that called in the reports to 311 and they stink of “payback”. The roof gardens are one of the coolest parts of the hotel, for the sole enjoyment of tenants, and its pretty absurd for Tilley to say anyone but he himself made the call. Possibly Belkin Berden told him to serve his own notices, since he created this situation. Don’t they record all of the calls to 311? I think they do.
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It figures our so called Manager would high tail it out of there before the dirty work got started. So I wonder, which of Tilley’s spies was standing there pointing out residents to Mr. Yee?
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which did marlene fire first last time the lawyers or the managers? its been like 6 months – difficult to recall all the details.
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Ed where’s your fact checker?
This guy Yee was indeed working as a hired assassin until the bottom fell out of the market and like everybody else he was forced to shift gears and seek new employment.
Now he’s a process server. What will Tilley’s next incarncation be? Greasemonkey for Tamasar’s lame-0 racing car?LikeLike
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This is the Webster’s definition of punitive. Nobody called 3-1-1 except these out of place dbags Tilley and Tamasar, trying to make residents as uncomfortable as inhumanely possible. I also heard they tried blaming it on others OH PLEEEEZE
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Yeah Andrew Tillyee had somebody fingering the residents the process server didn’t figure it out on his own.
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Nice to see Tilley is making new friends on the 10th Floor. I predict it will be his downfall.
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God, if I was Joe Burden or an employee of BBWG, I’d WANT them to fire me — who the hell wants to work for that slavedriver Marlene Krauss? Besides, things are getting so complicated here due to her complete incompetence, that all attorneys for the Chelsea will almost certainly be subpoenaed as witnesses in some future litigation. Not a pretty prospect, particularly if your dealings are as dirty as Marlene’s.
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Tilley has taken the Hotel to the lowest point yet. Process servers staking out the lobby? What next.
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I’m no lawyer but shouldn’t Belkin Berden have declared a Conflict of Interest before taking on Marlene as a client to begin with? How can they rep Stanley and then, within 18 months, turn around and rep the woman who sued and deposed the entire Bard Family?
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Apologies from Management, Mr. Yee, but Mrs. Tilley has Andrew on a very short leash these days. Turnpike traffic or no, he’s expected home on-time and not a minute later.
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This guy Lee was around tonight with a security goon. He had a notice about taking shit off fire escapes and balconies. I don’t have either.
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oops I meant Mr. Yee
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I’d agree this gives the impression that Marlene and Elder have been dumped by their lawyers. If Tilley is sending out these inane letters its either that, or Belkin Berdun doesn’t want to participate in the roof issue
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