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Category: Bard Family Ousted
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Today marks the three-year anniversary of the shameful ouster of the Bard family. Although the Chelsea Hotel is presently in disarray, we feel confident that plumber’s daughter Marlene Krauss’ reign of failure will soon be over. While the Bard family showed a profit year after year, since their ouster the hotel has been loosing money…
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A gentleman who manages a historic building in Washington DC enjoyed his stay at the Chelsea and would like to come back again. He just had one small problem which you can read about below. It turns out that he has the same question that we do: who's in charge of this hotel. Maybe somebody…
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In case you didn’t notice, Star Lounge is no more, its basement space gutted, transformed into a dark, dusty, rubble-strewn cavern. As we celebrate the long-awaited demise of this despised blight upon the Chelsea community, it’s time to look back upon the events leading up to the closure. With the club devolving into several nights of…
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Earlier coverage of David Elder's mysterious disappearance:How did David Elder get fired? Hotel Chelsea Management Shake-up (again) Mystery Management
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With the Spring shareholder meeting fast approaching, minority shareholder Marlene Krauss, MD, Pld., Harvard MBA, together with her new general manager Arnold Tamasar, is loudly trumpeting the claim that the Chelsea Hotel is at maximum occupancy. But isn’t it funny how, except perhaps on week-ends, the place seems half-empty? Actually, the 100% occupancy claim is intended…
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As several readers have written to express confusion over our earlier post about the firing of David Elder from his job as general manager of the Chelsea Hotel, and since we’ll have to admit to being a bit confused ourselves, we’d like to open the matter up for discussion. How, exactly, did he get…
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Theories abound as to why the Chelsea Hotel management removed a panel from the historic landmarked balcony on Monday and replaced it with a generic black iron plate. Now the NY Times reports that "… inspectors and engineers have visited more than 530 buildings across the city to determine whether the property owners maintained the exterior…
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Why is a company that specializes in hazardous waste management removing debris from Star Lounge? Should our concerns extend beyond the destruction of the mural in Stanley Bards office? We'd like to think that these men in masks were just cleaning up three years worth of crack cocaine residue from the bathroom fixtures, but we…
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It has come to our attention that the Chelsea Hotel management plans to punch a hole through the ceiling of Star Lounge in the basement and up through the floor of Stanley’s office (to the west of the lobby), in an apparent attempt to extend the raucous club up into the lobby area. …
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Commode Kingpin Arnold Tamasar has just given Chelsea Hotel minority shareholder/general manager David Elder a swirly. You know, that’s when you dunk somebody’s head in the toilet bowl and flush it. What reportedly happened is that, back around the end of March, Tamasar resigned from his post as Director of Operations, telling tenants it was for…
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