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Category: Hotel Chelsea
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As Observer reporter Chris Shott points out, new Chelsea Hotel manager Andrew Tilley has found himself in a precarious position, attempting to make nice with the tenants while at the same time carrying out Marlene Krauss and David Elder’s harsh project of evictions. Talk about divided loyalties. Luckily, I guess his past experience qualifies him…
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As I’ve mentioned before on this blog, one of tragedies of the ouster of the Bard family is that the Chelsea is no longer fulfilling its historic mission of nurturing new artists. I have absolutely no interest in being one of the last Mohicans. And in the spirit of conciliation, Debbie and I will gladly…
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A blog reader writes in to wish us luck in our struggle to preserve the Chelsea’s historic legacy. I just wanted to take a moment to thank you for your Hotel Chelsea blog. I try to stay at the Chelsea whenever I come to town, and I love being able to check up on what…
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Good News! As reported last week in Chelsea Now’s Buzz column, Andrew Tilley is going to revamp the Chelsea Hotel’s official website so he can take over our job of publicizing the work of Chelsea Hotel artists. This really takes a load off of our shoulders, and we couldn’t be happier, as now we can…
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Last Thursday’s art show was a portrait filled occasion. First off, Storme Delarverie, the honoree of the evening was given a portrait painted by Zito. Secondly, our illustrious proprietor Stanley Bard was simarily honored with a portrait, this one painted by Steven Fisher. (By this point in time, Stanley probably has a whole closet…
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Good news on the legal front. Another two tenants have had their apartments acknowledged as Rent Stabilized. The one case I am at liberty to talk about is Jim Georgiou’s, though the other tenant’s case had a similar resolution. Everybody knows Jim: he’s that guy with dark hair and a small…
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It is with great sadness that we have learned of the passing of Angela O’Conner, 46. As reported in The Daily News she was discovered lying face up on her bed in a 9th floor apartment here at the Chelsea Hotel. Our heartfelt condolences go out to Ms. O’Conner’s family for their loss. …
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If you’ve been having leaky faucets and clogged toliets, you can rest easy now beleagered Chelseaite, for your problems are about to be solved. Our new manager, Andrew Tilley, has just hired Arnold Tamasar as Director of Operations of our budding boutique hotel. Tamasar, who inherits Glennon Travis’s old title, was…
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When we asked Chelsea Hotel historian Sherill Tippins for a ghost story for Halloween, she sent us this essay by by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. Flynn, a labor activist and women’s rights advocate who worked for the IWW and helped found the ACLU, was national chairperson of the U.S. Communist Party, while she was…
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Big news: an annex of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is set to open in Soho! It will of course feature exhibits devoted to several former Chelsea Hotel residents, such as Bob Dylan and the Ramones, and will even include an interactive map of musically significant spots in New York—and I’m sure I…
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