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The Duchess of Warhol: The Estate of Brigid Berlin

April 25, 2022

If you are a fan of pugs, and a fan of Chelsea Hotel characters, Wednesday’s auction of items from the Brigid Berlin estate will ring all of your bells! Check out the pug portraits. A couple of Billy Name monographs might be more to your liking. Or maybe buy a music book or two. The…
Deena Kaye Rose’s Book “Some Days are Diamonds” Will Take You Back to the Chelsea Hotel in the mid-70s

April 18, 2016

Deena Kaye Rose is a Nashville songwriting legend. She has written songs for some of country’s most renowned stars like Johnny Cash, Jerry Reed, John Denver and wrote the theme song to the all-time American classic movie, Smokey and the Bandit. In Deena Kaye Rose’s new book, Some Days Are Diamonds, she chronicles the best…
Happy Birthday to Chelsea Hotel Legend Stanley Bard

June 16, 2014

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…
Virtual Hotel Chelsea Celebrates 5 year Anniversary on May 3, 2014

April 24, 2014

NY Times coverage of Chelsea Hotel Second Life launch. Second Life Help keep Second Life Chelsea Hotel Alive. Jeremiah's Vanishing New York visits Hotel Chelsea Second Life
Edgar Lee Masters Rises From the Graves

June 20, 2013

As many of you already know, poet Edgar Lee Masters, was a former Chelsea Hotel resident. His 1915 book, The Spoon River Anthology, is the story of the fictional town of Spoon River, and in it, the town’s residents are now dead and returning to tell their secrets and stories. The Green-Wood Historic Fund in…
Chelsea Hotel Endures Plagues of Biblical Proportions

July 17, 2012

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?
Patti Smith Sings for Chelsea Hotel Developer Joseph Chetrit

January 10, 2012

The Bard family has been good to Patti Smith, helping her out at two difficult times in her life. The first time, in the late sixties when she was a struggling, unknown poet, Stanley Bard gave her and her friend Robert Mappelthorpe a place to stay so they could get out of the drug and…
Union Rat Eyes Chelsea Hotel Owner Joseph Chetrit

December 13, 2011

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…
Article on New Boutique Hotels in New York Fails to Mention Chelsea

June 22, 2010

Here's an article on six new mid-town boutique hotels. Hmmmmm, let's see now: Distrikt, Eventi, Fashion 26, Hotel Indigo, The Mave, and The Strand. Funny, I don't see any mention of the Chelsea here. What's the matter Marlene? Failed?
Death for Sale at the Chelsea Hotel

May 25, 2010

Lost our lease! Everything must go! Stanley was famous for renting the room where Madonna shot her Sex book to Material Girl-worshiping hipsters with stars in their eyes. Lately, however, sex alone has not been paying the bills. In response, general manager Arnold Tamasar has revealed a new marketing strategy: Celebrity Death Tourism. (And maybe…

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