Yesterday, the floods arrived again at the Chelsea Hotel. A pipe burst sending water throughout the 10th and 9th floors of the building. Some tenant's apartments were damaged by the water. The picture below shows the water flowing from a light fixture on the 10th floor. Meanwhile, by our count, a quarter of the Chelsea Hotel's tenants continue to fight evictions in Housing and Supreme Court.
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3 responses to “Chelsea Hotel Plague of the Day: Floods”
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This will get those pesky holdouts out. Nothing says the NEW New York City–Bloombergia!–like putting elderly artists and creative types, like young people, brown and black people, and the poor, out on the street!
Give him a fourth term, let NYU build in Washington Square Park, rename Harlem Columbiania, and more artisinsanity in Brooklyn until the hipsters tire themselves out!
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The people who really run NYC, the reigning real estate families, never really cared about artists, creative types. These business people, the powers that be basically threw up their hands and creative people milked it. New York was crime ridden and creative types were the only people that wanted the crumbling city, it was cheap and they moved in. The people who move to NYC now, the hipsters, yuppies, rich white people, whatever you want to call them would have always moved to NYC but they were to scared. Advancements in computer technology, crime detection helped rid the city of crime and the floodgates opened to those who were dying to move here, mainstream people took what the creative types created and so on and so on. The city will not have an edge again until there is crime that technology can’t fight or some other situation that only artists will tolerate. As far back as 1970 Koch had the idea to turn 42nd st. into a mall, it took decades for it to happen but it happened with Disney owning much of Times Square property(1970 is also when Florida’s Disney World opened which could have what gave Koch and others the idea). The moral of this story is the reason artists moved into the Chelsea was because the people with the money didn’t want it.
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PS and because, while artistic types were tolerating the city’s condition, Stanley Bard was tolerant of them. Lets not leave his contributions unheralded. Without Stanley they’d have been sleeping in the park.
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