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Hotel Chelsea Blog
Category: Hotel Chelsea
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On Tuesday, Oct 21, eviction notices signed by Chelsea Hotel general manager Andrew Tilley were posted on the doors of a large number of residents, ordering them to pay up in three days or else face eviction proceedings. These are all long term residents, some of whom have lived here for up to twenty years,…
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Because of the downturn in the economy caused by greedy developers and stockbrokers, travelers have been canceling reservations in droves, and hotel occupancy rates this month declined 11% over last year (see Crain’s). As Stanley predicted (I have him on video!), the real estate bubble has burst, and now his “eccentric” business practices are…
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The New York Observer brings us word of a tenant uprising in Soho. What, no stink bombs?! These people down in Soho must be amateurs. Wonder if there was something more than water in those buckets? Seriously, though, we applaude anybody who has the guts to fight for their right to the peaceable enjoyment of…
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We don’t know the exact details but, Star Lounge was reportedly broken into early Monday morning between 4 and 7 a.m. (We saw the cops out in front of the club at around 9 a.m.) It’s hard to care what happens to the place since they keep us up to all hours with their…
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Some German tourists write in to say: Keep the Chelsea the way it is! Don’t make it another soulless luxury hotel! It’s a shame they couldn’t have met the Bards. Hello everybody! First of all, sorry for my bad language! At our first sightseeing-trip ever to New York City from 10/01 to 10/06 we, my…
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The office of the Welsh government, together with Aeronwy Thomas and Peter Thabit Jones, have designed a self-guided walking tour of Greenwich Village to enlighten people about Dylan and his life in New York. It is available as a printable PDF. It goes without saying there are a lot of spots to stop and have…
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According to the New Yorker (Oct. 6) in 1993 artist Elizabeth Peyton had a show in room 828 of the Chelsea Hotel. That was Herbert Huncke’s old room — in fact I thought he was living there then, but if that is correct the show must have taken place before he moved in. Most recently…
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In Black Book magazine Steve Lewis interviews Abel Ferrara and Jen Gatien on their upcoming movie "Chelsea on the Rocks”. Lewis himself lived at the hotel for two years off and on — we assume back in the early nineties since he ran into Dee Dee Ramone and Herbert Huncke and Ultraviolet hanging her laundry…
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We can’t really understand what you’re talking about but good luck with that.
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A blog reader from Australia writes: Yah got to Fight for your Right to PAAAAAAARTAY Girls and Gals of the Chelsea!!! Even we poor souls of bohemia in Australia have been hit with the tar brush of Gentrification. You would have thought such a young country would have wanted to celebrate their youth, but no,…
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