According to historian Sherill Tippins, presently at work on a history of the Chelsea Hotel, the recent pyrotechnics of Andrew Tilley are part of a glorious tradition at the Chelsea.  Well, sort of anyway!  While there is no written testimony of former inappropriate behavior with fireworks exploded out of Chelsea managers’ body cavities, there was…

I’m sure by now Marlene Krauss has called Andrew Tilley at home to ask him if he’s been putting fireworks up his ass.  But hey, how are we supposed to know whether or not that’s him?  Though Tilley has been manager for a week, he’s been hiding himself away and virtually nobody has seen him.…

You have to click here to watch the shocking video!  Enjoy the fireworks! via (Mirror.uk.com), The Florida Masochist, BBC, Daily Mail

  Inspired by curbed.com and hotelchatter.com

Well, we just lost another member of our family due to escalating rents. Chelsea Healing, the acupuncture shop in the eastern most storefront of the hotel follows Capitol Fishing Tackle and Balabanis Tailor in being the latest casualty in the minority shareholders plan to remake the Chelsea Hotel in their own sickily image. Monday was…

We don’t have all of the details yet, but David Elder’s New Assistant, Andrew Tilley, is apparently all set to unveil his new plan to “rehabilitate” the Chelsea. As a teaser, he has posted the schematics for the plan in the hotel lobby (no more dueling photo-books thank you very much). As you can see,…

Forget Stanley Bard.  Pity the mere mortal who is chosen to fill the voluminous shoes of the highly competent and supremely good-natured Glennon Travis, loved and respected by Chelsea Hotel denizens past and present. Who has been singled out to bear this immense burden?  The suspense is killing you isn’t it? Well, the wait is…

This is the question raised by a blog reader from Norway: "After reading about the conflicts at the hotel, I have a very simple question. I was planning to stay three nights at Chelsea in July, but my impression is that this will mean putting money into the hands of greedy barbarians. Am I right?…

It has come to our attention that some residents of the Chelsea Hotel may not have been receiving their mail in a timely and appropriate manner, perhaps as a punitive measure for being late on their rent.  We had heard rumors to this effect before, but never anything definitive until now.  In the case we…