Living with Legends
Hotel Chelsea Blog
Category: Ghosts
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Arthur B. Davies, an artist, made "spiritual" paintings–dancing nudes, etc. (See below.) He also traveled the world, collecting both ancient and modern art. By 1928 he had crammed into every available space of his Chelsea Hotel studio more than a dozen Picassos, five Cezannes, four Matisses, and various other valuable works too numerous to mention.…
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By 1920, the theatre district had moved uptown to Herald Square, except for a few bawdy houses and burlesque palaces that remained on 23rd Street, and the neighborhood was getting a bit rundown. The Chelsea Hotel, however, was still at or near its peak, the stained glass windows and plate glass mirrors remaining intact, the…
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Today, our thoughts turn to Halloween. Last year, we published a slew of ghost stories some of which were sent in by guest contributors. We’ve got even more scary in store for you this year. As Sherill Tippins admits, this isn’t much of a ghost story, but it’s still kind of scary since everybody in…
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We’ve always wanted to learn German, but it just seemed like too much time and effort. Now we find that it wasn’t that hard at all. Here we are, speaking fluent German on German Public Radio (download mp3), with nary a trace of an accent at all! Here’s a picture of our instructor, Martina…
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Last week, with a documentary film crew in tow (It was a shoot for New York Streets, a documentary that will be aired on Dec. 10th on channel NHK BS1 in Japan (and a small subscribed Japanese cable channel here). Debbie and I went to visit the painter Robert Lambert in…
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An old Chelsea babysitter writes: Though I never lived at the Chelsea Hotel myself, I used to babysit for a young couple who lived there back in the early nineties. They were not artists. The man was an engineer and the woman owned a small business and I’m not sure why…
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Larry the Ghost is perhaps the Chelsea’s most famous resident spirit. Our Anonymous Hotel Chelsea Blogger # 3 interviewed several live residents in order to come to the following conclusions about Larry: The main thing about Larry is that he never stops talking. This is upsetting to the other ghosts, because they’re eager to tell…
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The Chelsea has a reputation as being a welcoming haven for spirits–of both the living and the dead variety. We asked longtime resident Tim Sullivan what he knew about the ghosts who inhabit the Chelsea. Tim is a big man, with a gray tuft of beard and…
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