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Category: Hotel Chelsea
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Film producer Michael Hausman reveals that while checking into the Chelsea Hotel Milos Forman encountered a nude girl on the elevator — or at least a new girl. This caused him to stay five years.
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Past residents of the Chelsea Hotel continue to inspire the youth of today. Austin-based band okkervil River’s lastest effort "The Stand Ins" features an awesome tribute to Jobriath entitled "Bruce Wayne Campbell Interviewed on the Roof of the Chelsea Hotel." (Unfortunately, the video of the interview was removed from youtube.com)
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Sorry lady, but we do not run the Hotel! See you in court soon. I stayed at your hotel on saturday april,26,2008. There was no manager there my room was infested with bed bugs, which i was bit in the face. I paid 300.00 for the nigth and had to leave and go down the…
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On Thursday, September 18, a longtime resident of the Chelsea was attacked outside the hotel by a bouncer working for Star Lounge. The attack allegedly occurred when the resident stepped out of a cab that the bouncer thought had parked too close to his motorcycle (presumably the same one that wakes us all up at…
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In the most recent issue of Chelsea Now, former Chelsea Hotel resident Ethan Hawke bemoans the present state of our august institution. “It stands as some relic of a time when things were more authentic and more personal,” he said. And no surprise, he calls for the return of Stanley Bard and his son David.…
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We, as tenants, count on a certain amount of discretion from the staff. We have to come and go through the lobby every day, of necessity coming into contact with a large number of staff members, and, for our own personal reasons most of us do not want our movements to be monitored. We want…
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There was a big gusher on 23rd St. near 7th Ave. this afternoon. We rushed out there with our camera but they had turned it off before we got a picture. Several businesses on the block are without water. As of 1:30 it’s still on at the Chelsea, but it is looking nasty and brown…
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To All the Beautiful Ones At The Chelsea, I finally got the chance to walk through the halls and walk up and down the stairs of The Chelsea Hotel. I sat in the lobby for a while, looking at the beautiful paintings and sculptures. I admired the old furniture and sat in…
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The Chelsea’s new general manager, Andrew Tilley, has expressed an openness to discussion and a willingness to work with tenants to address their concerns in this time of uncertainty, and for this he should rightly be praised. Yet on Friday, Sept 5, Tilley was downtown in the offices of the DHCR, testifying against one of…
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We have some bad news to report: Yakov Shtromandel, a longtime employee of the Chelsea Hotel who recently acted as interim manager of the hotel after BD Hotel’s dismissal, has himself been abruptly fired. The new manager, Andrew Tilley, gave no reason for Yakov’s termination. (As New York is a Right to Work state, and…
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