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The Sins of Former Chelsea Hotel Manager Andrew Tilley

Though he could never hope to surpass the sterling record of BD Hotel's Glennon "gigi" Travis, Andrew Tilley accomplished much in his short tenure at the Chelsea Hotel:

Testified against a tenant at a DHCR hearing,
Enforced Marlene Krauss and David Elder's plan to evict tenants,
Plotted to send Storme Delarverie to a nursing home,
Dismissed three long-term valued employees,
Failed to make tenants art-stars,
Achieved an occupany rate below 20%,
Trashed Bob Dylan's room,
Hired unnecessary security guards and installed spy cameras turning the Chelsea Hotel into a police state,
First person in 21st Century to take a job without googling employer

Alas, he never did get a chance to install those i-pod docking stations that was his only truly visionary idea.  — Ed Hamilton

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28 responses to “The Sins of Former Chelsea Hotel Manager Andrew Tilley”

  1. Old & Crappy Avatar
    Old & Crappy

    The list goes on and on, but thanks a bunch for getting it started.
    Did he ever put in a 40 hour work week?

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  2. I'm OK, You're UK Avatar
    I’m OK, You’re UK

    Tilley was an evil prick. Thank god he’s gone. Nobody liked him, not the staff, nobody who wasn’t kissing ass for one reason or another.
    Yeah, he shitcanned three of the Hotel’s most valuable longtime employees and one of those he terminated on his last day at work! For reasons totally unjustifiable! Did I mention EVIL???

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  3. liar liar Avatar
    liar liar

    more accurately tilley lied about a tenant at dhcr, just as he lied TO tenants on the only occasion he met them face to face…glad to see storme wasn’t going along with tilley’s plan…she’s still here and here to stay!

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  4. iClod Avatar
    iClod

    How will we ever survive without Tilley’s iPod docking stations? I desperately need some place to rest my gin fizz and ash my joints. And whatever became of the supposedly ‘stolen’ flatpanel tvs that Tilley told the staff was the reason why he installed spy cameras amid every nook and cranny of the Hotel? I never did catch those thefts in the Police Blotter, which usually means it never happened. More fabrications by Andrew Tilley and his unholy band of misfits.

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  5. Prick-a-Tilly Palare Avatar
    Prick-a-Tilly Palare

    Good! Glad that jerk is gone. Now maybe the busty young female tourists can check-in without being checked-out…if you catch my meaning.

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  6. How Long Tilley Gets The Hell Out? Oh, He's Out! Avatar
    How Long Tilley Gets The Hell Out? Oh, He’s Out!

    Maybe Glennon Travesty is hiring over at the Hotel Riverview…ahem…Jane Hotel.
    I can hear the applicants practicing their interview pitches even now…”Me Tamasar, You Jane…”
    Speaking of which, lets kick up those protests Hotel Riverviewers! If you’re getting mistreated, make a stink about it! See, it DOES work! Another scum bites the dust.

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  7. Stink-Shoe Thrower Avatar
    Stink-Shoe Thrower

    I’m hanging an effigy of Tilley and Tamasar over each of the hallway spy cameras and inviting all residents of the Hotel to pitch shoes at them. The stinkier the better.
    Free lessons.

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  8. Runaway Juror Avatar
    Runaway Juror

    Tilley may be gone but the idiot who hired him, David Elder, isn’t. I actually heard he is serving Jury Duty in Los Angeles and I ask you: who the hell would ever let a miserable excuse like Elder serve on a Jury when the California Supreme Court just found he stole more than a million dollars from his own stepfather?!? Money that he hasn’t even tried to pay back!?!

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  9. MAN-LIES Avatar
    MAN-LIES

    STANLEY WILL BE BACK SOON AND QUAINT LITTLE SQUABBLES WILL AGAIN BE THE ORDER OF THE DAY RATHER THAN MONUMENTAL BATTLES WHERE PORTIONS OF THE HOTEL GET TORN TO SHREDS.

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  10. All Bets Are OFF Avatar
    All Bets Are OFF

    The folks over at curbed.com predict that the next guy or gal is going to last 7.5 months!

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  11. Avatar
    Anonymous

    Boo Hoo Poor Andrew Tilley had nothing to offer the Chelsea but sledgehammers and security goons, now he complains the red carpet wasn’t rolled out for him.. well get on back to the Hard Rock, mate, if they will even have you anymore. Feeling chewed up and spit out much?

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  12. Avatar
    Anonymous

    Does this mean Tilley’s “in-house movies” are a bust right along with the iPod ports/frisbees?

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  13. Then Get Out of The Chelsea Avatar
    Then Get Out of The Chelsea

    Cawnt take the heat?

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    Anonymous

    Wait a minute, I’ll have to hang my art in the corridors like everyone else?
    NOT FAIR!

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  15. Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out, Tilley Avatar
    Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out, Tilley

    I’ll bet the next one, if there is a next one, is an even bigger loser, and klasts six months or less.

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  16. Miss H Avatar
    Miss H

    Time to really turn up the heat on Marlene Krauss and David Elder.

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  17. BBB Avatar
    BBB

    What ‘next one’? No ‘next ones’.
    Krauss had a helluva time just getting a loser like Andy Tilley to take the job. Now he’s split, and she should listen to the free advice of Ira Drukier whose opinion she must have valued at one point or another. Even he told the NY Observer that only the Bards will do.

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  18. The Invisible Manager Avatar
    The Invisible Manager

    Well I can see no crocodile tears are being shed over Tilley’s disappearing act. He always was the “Invisible Manager” anyway. All five months or whatever.
    He shouldn’t have even mentioned his resignation but instead just let Marlene think he was just hiding out in the office like always. She never visits the Hotel and so might not have noticed, and kept issuing his paychecks.

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  19. Avatar
    Anonymous

    I don’t want to hang my art in the corridors with everybody else.
    I’M SPECIAL!

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  20. Next Victim, Please Avatar
    Next Victim, Please

    I can see Marlene’s upcoming ad on Craigslist.
    Help Wanted: Delaying The Inevitable.

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  21. Miss H Avatar
    Miss H

    Marlene Krauss rarely steps into that hotel. She doesn’t know it at all. Who did we have to kill to get these two bonehead little heirs to leave? We have totake this oprotest and put it right in the faces of these two.

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    Anonymous

    Didn’t Marlene vet this guy for a scrotum before signing his contract?

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  23. The Blame Game Avatar
    The Blame Game

    Andrew is blaming everyone but himself this morning, we can all be quite certain. At first I tried to get along with him, until I realized he was a walking, talking shell game. He says one thing and does another.
    Tilley rails illogically that he wanted to “preserve” the Hotel, but nobody forced him to conduct illegal gut jobs on historic rooms. NO ONE.
    No one forced Tilley to harass tenants (including El Quijote), to lie both to and about tenants, sue tenants over one month rent, or play tenants against one another by making anonymous reports to 311. NOBODY DID. That was all Tilley’s own handiwork, a strategy that he and his staff brought with them. A strategy that has FAILED. He has no one to blame but himself.

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  24. Run But You Can't Hide Avatar
    Run But You Can’t Hide

    If Tilley wasn’t getting any work done, it was evidently because he couldn’t unglue himself from the Hotel Chelsea Blog – the central preoccupation of his life.
    I’d ask what you have to hide, Tilley, but I already know – incompetence, arrogant attitude, aversion to the truth, bad hair, panty fetish. The question is what else do you have to hide.
    What? You think because you quit your day job we give up on outing you as the bad guy you are? Thats like skipping the country after committing assault and battery on a 125 year old lady. These things don’t just go away, pally.

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    Anonymous

    Storme in a nursing home, yeah right. I partied with Storme two weekends ago and she drank me under the table. If that wasn’t enough, she was fisting double vodka rocks and I was merely swilling beer.
    Maybe if that nursing home had a discotheque and a full time bartender she’d go, but for now Storme stays put.

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  26. SWO ASAP Avatar
    SWO ASAP

    Tilley may not have left his ‘mark’ on the Chelsea Hotel, but he sure left some huge indentations.

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    Anonymous

    I met Storme last June and he was more than competent and as always, I’m sure, charming. Who would dare think this great person deserved a nursing home placement at this time? I’m so sad….Lyn

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    Anonymous

    I wish I could have challenged Storme to a drink off. Unfortunately, I ended up at the horrible Star Lounge for a weak and uninspiring cocktail (the best they could do of course). Later I tried to sleep to no avail since the horrifying music from below vibrated
    my bed to the point of brain hemorrhaging. Storme would have been much more interesting.

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