Category: Hotel Chelsea

  •          With the Chelsea Hotel presently going to hell in a handcart, we thought that a glance back at a happier time might be a welcome relief.  Rummaging through used bookstores, Roger Wade came up with a 1961 edition of Frommer’s New York on 5 Dollars A Day, reminding us by its very…

  • As reported in the NY Post Monday, Rosanne Carone, who owns the Sunshine Hotel on the Bowery, has had her unconscionable plot to throw the legal, rent stabilized tenants out of her building foiled.  The HPD has ruled that she harassed tenants to get them out, and so—Ha Ha Ha—she will have to wait three…

  • There are at least two new security guards in the building, apparently hired in retaliation to an ongoing harassment suit being brought by a resident against David Elder.  (It may also have had to do with Sunday’s Page Six Magazine article on the hotel in which many residents openly called for the return of the…

  • Finally, some good news for the Chelsea community!  The above quote comes from minority shareholder David Elder, and guests and residents alike will be lining up in the lobby starting at 8:00 AM on Monday morning to take him up on his generous offer. Seriously, though, hello and a warm welcome to Page 6 Magazine…

  • Our readers are still confused.  Here’s the latest reader submitted Tilley sighting.

  • After reading about all the horrible things going on around here, such as Stanley’s ouster, tenants being forced out, and the squabbles between shareholders and management, Blog readers often write in to ask if they should still visit the hotel.  Their concerns are valid–ranging from not wanting to give their money to a band of…

  • Star Lounge owner Charles Ferri will mix you up a stiff one if his dreams come true and he’s able to open up his proposed "Legends Cafe" in the lobby of the Chelsea Hotel.  Our advice: don’t order the Pina Colada.(Photo: Celinna von Mannstein, Park Avenue) 

  • Our readers are so confused as to the identity of this Tilley fellow that they have started to send us bizzare tips such as the following: watching cbs sunday morning and theres a dog who paints pictures whose name is "tilley"

  • Apparently it wasn’t enough for BD Hotels to rewrite history and leave out the Bards when they launched the new Chelsea Hotel website — they also stole photos and used them on the site!  According to photograher Raymond Haddad the new site features his photo which he originally posted on flickr. The site doesn’t credit…

  •      Before he came here, new manager Andrew Tilley ran the Paramount Hotel in Times Square.  Here are a few quotes (posted on Trip Advisor), from people who have stayed there:      "Don’t go there!!!!!’     "Trust me you do not want to stay here…it will ruin your trip."     "Worst experience of…