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Category: Bard Family Ousted
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Everyone remembers the Dutch Masters Cigar Box painting, which hung in the lobby for many years before the hotel took it down and tried to sell it, only to be sued by the artist Larry Rivers’ estate, who won the return of the painting by claiming it had only been on loan to Stanley Bard.…
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Chelsea Hotel Scaffolding, we hardly knew ye. Well, that’s not exactly true, now, is it? After all, you were up for over ten years. You provided shelter for the homeless—one of whom lived in the entryway to the El Quijote for two years or more—and a dry surface for all the pampered doggies from the…
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David Bard, beloved former general manager of the Chelsea Hotel, passed away on Tuesday, September 14, on the day of his 56th birthday. David, together with his father Stanley, from whom he was set to assume the mantle of leadership, will always be remembered as the heart and soul of the Chelsea. As Stanley’s only…
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Dear Mayor DeBlasio,We are calling on you to return Richard Born’s and Ira Drukier’s campaign contributions and the $90,000 that was raised at the March fundraiser. With the presidential primaries underway and your reputation for standing up for tenants on the line, you must make it crystal clear to them that they cannot buy a…
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Seven years and two months later and this is what we've got! A concrete landing that blocks more than half of the beautiful skylight.
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It’s been seven long years and here’s what we’ve got at the Chelsea Hotel! This, and a projected early 2019 opening. Anniversary Lowlights: June 20, 2007 – The Bard Family was ousted and BD Hotels steps in to manage the Hotel for the minority shareholders. " Ira Drukier of BD thinks that with a little work…
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Famed hotelier Stanley Bard, the guiding spirit of the greatest experiment in bohemian living in the history of New York, if not the world, passed away this morning in Boca Raton, Florida, surrounded by his loved ones. Bard, 82, who had been ill for the last few years, succumbed to a massive stroke. Known affectionately…
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Stanley Bard and his wife Phyllis celebrated Stanley's 80th birthday in style earlier this month by dining at El Quijote. Stanley said that one of his all time favorite dishes was El Quijote's Chicken Villeroy, but he ordered something different just to change it up on this particular occasion, looked like the Fish in Green…
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Welcome both to old friends and to those new to the site. Since we haven’t been posting much lately, we thought an update would be in order. Musical Churls: Changing Ownership of the Chelsea Hotel In June of 2007, the Bard family (headed by the inimitable Stanley Bard) who ran the hotel as an artistic…
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…. He takes me on a tour of the Hotel from the luggage storage area behind the front desk (“imagine the potential for this as a hotel bar”) to the roof area dotted with random flower beds and mismatched patio furniture (“Look at that view—I’d love a rooftop bar here”)… Hotel Manager Ed Scheetz from…
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