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  • Dainty Adore at The Coney Island Mermaid Parade

    The end of summer is quickly approaching and the future of the Chelsea Hotel and Coney Island are still uncertain.  Former Chelsea Hotel resident Dainty Adore  takes us back in time to the Fourth Annual Mermaid Day Parade.   After Danity performs her quirky set she provides a tour of the boardwalk and amusement park. (Video…

  • Voodoo, Jungle Cats, Poetry & Communists Banned at Chelsea

    It’s worth pointing out — even if it’s rather obvious — that the Chelsea Hotel would never have become the world renowned rebel mecca that it is (or was, if you prefer) if Stanley Bard had hired security guards to rid the Hotel of the weird and/or inebriated.  In response to a question from reader…

  • Oscar Nominees at the Chelsea Hotel’s 100 Year Anniversary Celebration

    Not only did we come into possession of the 100 year anniversary program earlier this week, now we have video from the event.  Watch below to see Oscar nominees Sylvia Miles and Ronee Blakely hanging out in the lobby with actress, author and cult icon Cookie Mueller.  The anniversary party had just been shut down…

  • Tilley Takes Sabbatical to Attend David Bernstein School of Hotel Management

         The news this week is that Andrew "Picadilly" Tilley has already gone on vacation!   He’s been out all week, after having only started work on July 1.  Man that’s the life, isn’t it?  I guess he doesn’t intend to emulate Stanley Bard.  But what I’m wondering is, what sort of job is this? …

  • Revealed! Andrew Tilley’s Plans for Chelsea Hotel

    In last week’s Chelsea Now, manager Andrew Tilley promised Chelsea Hotel residents a letter in which he would introduce himself and tell us his plans for the building.  While it has not been forthcoming, Tilley did indeed compose a draft of such a letter, which he then e-mailed to Marlene Krauss, who promptly shot it…

  • Chelsea Hotel: Fade to Black?

    Legends has obtained a rare copy of the program for the 100th Anniversary Celebration of of the Chelsea Hotel in 1983.  In somber black and oddly titled “Chelsea: Chelsea Hotel. The First One Hundred Years,” the cover of the (obviously expensively produced) booklet features a very faint reproduction (almost a watermark),  also in black, of…

  • New Manager Andrew Tilley Speaks—and Says Little

    After hiding away for almost a month, manager Andrew Tilley has finally heeded Legends’ advice and broken his silence with the press (Chelsea Now, August 1-7, Scott Stiffler). The result is a transparent nattering of corporate-speak in which he tiptoes around addressing residents’ concerns. Evictions First and foremost on every tenant’s mind is whether or…

  • Forget The Lack of AC: Naked Girls Return to the Chelsea

        With the management in disarray, having no clue as to how to run the hotel, and having to resort to half-assed attempts to intimidate residents by posting security guards in the lobby (and even having them roam the halls) it’s nice to see some semblance of normalcy reasserting itself at the Chelsea.  …

  • Marlene Krauss Weighs in on the Page 6 Magazine Article

    Legends has intercepted an e-mail letter-to-the-editor that minority shareholder Marlene Krauss sent to Page 6 Magazine.  Apparently she must have forgotten that we control the Internets: To the Editor, I wish I could thank you for your July 20 article on my property, the Chelsea Hotel, but I’m afraid it will only encourage the sort…

  • You Can’t Go Home Again

    Dear Ed, I lived at the Chelsea Hotel about 4 years ago. It was a great place to be… I called the front desk today and asked if I could do a monthly rental again and the person who answered said that they do not  take residents anymore. I know there are not such great…