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Looks like somebody took a wrong turn with the sledge hammer and ended up at the Black Hole of Calcutta. Who knows how many bohemians have fallen into this bottomless pit. Black Hole of Calcutta
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A toxic hot wind swirls up the ornate staircase from the first floor, rivaling the siroccos of the Sahara Desert–only less healthy. (Photo credit: Tunnel of Love)
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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…
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Leaks, floods, swarms of mosquitoes, mold, windstorms of dust, dumspters full of uncovered waste, jackhammer demolition: when will the tribulations of our poor oppressed bohemian tribe be at an end?
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Below is the first 2:42 of Gene Kaufman's presentation at Community Board 4's public hearing on April 4, 2012. (You will need to turn up the volume on your speakers.) Here is a draft of the resolution which CB4 will send to the Landmarks Preservation Committee, which plans to hold a hearing about the Hotel on Tuesday, April 10,…
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Here’s what remains of Beat writer Herbert Huncke’s room. Huncke, who inspired characters in Ginsberg’s Howl, Kerouac’s On the Road, and Burrough’s Junky, lived a hand-to-mouth existence in this rent stabilized room until his death. He could have never afforded to live in NYC if the Chetrits of the world had had their way. Underpaid,…
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Union workers erected a large rat in front of the Chelsea Hotel today to protest Joseph Chetrit's use of non-union labor to demolish the interior of the hotel. Former Hotel workers had long been union members but in August when the Chelsea Hotel was in the process of changing ownership, the union workers arrived at…
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The present, illegitimate, management this week began demolition/“renovation” in room 614 of the National and City Landmark Chelsea Hotel. This is the room where the great Arthur Miller lived in the 1960s, and where he penned his play “After the Fall.” The room is virtually unchanged from the time when Miller lived there, and contains many…
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In a recently published article, Sherill Tippins traces the origins of the Chelsea Hotel’s role as nexus of the artistic community to the French utopian socialist philosopher Charles Fourier’s influence upon architect Phillip Hubert. It’s Tippins contention that when Hubert completed the building in 1884 it encapsulated Fourier’s notion of art social – a philosophical…
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