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Category: Bard Family Ousted
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Tom Acitelli of the Observer, was here at the Chelsea Hotel on Thursday, too early to observe the Chelsea’s art collection being removed from the walls, stairwells and halls, being carted off to god knows where. Of course not all of the artworks that were removed belonged to the Hotel. Some belonged to the…
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Hotel staff have completed their meeting with the Union officials. The union reps report that they are to be notified as soon as the deal has closed. There are indications that Chetrit's inability to secure financing has put the deal in jeopardy.
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Union workers who were assembled in front of the hotel this morning confirmed that cement has been poured down the sewage pipes at the Chelsea Hotel in an attempt at sabotage. Union workers were not allowed to go back to their jobs and are being kept out of the basement. Fox news was interviewing people in…
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It’s eerily quiet in the Hotel today. They cleared the last of the tourists out of their rooms yesterday – though some of them did not go quite willingly. One family called the cops because staff removed their bags while they were out. And another guest flipped out and had to be taken to Bellevue.…
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Here's an e-mail which was sent to a guest who used an online booking service to reserve a room at the Chelsea Hotel. It's the sort of information that residents had to learn through rumor and heresay. It's interesting to see what kind of Hotels we are now being compared too. We've sunk to a…
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Like the giant squid and the sperm whale, or perhaps more like the crocodile and the python, two redoubtable real estate reptiles are locked in a primordial death struggle that will decide the fate of the Chelsea Hotel. Soon, one combatant will sink, lifeless, to the bottom of the putrefying construction-pit sludge, while the…
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In what’s shaping up as a rather eventful week at the Chelsea Hotel, staff members have been told to stop taking reservations after August 2. So if you want to spend one more night at the Chelsea Hotel before it closes, now is your last chance. Though this latest move could mean many things (such as…
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As we stated in our post yesterday, a number of paintings were removed from the hotel on Wednesday, July 20, reportedly thrown carelessly into the back of a van and taken to an unknown location. An artist who saw her painting being removed was able to rescue it as it was being carried out. She…
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In a recent, distressing trend at the Chelsea, art works have been disappearing from the walls, some of them never to be seen again. These fall into a few distinct categories: 1. Evicted Art: several resident artists removed their canvasses after they were evicted. 2. Trashed Art: at least two significant art works were discovered…
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