Living with Legends
Hotel Chelsea Blog
Category: Hotel Chelsea
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With the Chelsea Hotel in the hands of money-grubbing outsiders, and our favorite restaurant, Florent in the meatpacking district, set to close on Sunday, who could imagine it could get any worse. And yet the developers continue to shock and appall us with their brazen disregard for the cultural heritage of New York…
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New York City really has got it in for rent stabilized tenants as the Rent Guidelines Board just passed increases of 4.5% on one year leases and 8.5% on two year leases. This is not the free market talking; it is, rather social engineering in its most repellant form, as the city sells out to…
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More people than originally thought have received "demand for payment" notices. If you received this notice and cannot afford an attorney, please contact the West Side SRO Project ASAP. You can contact them by calling 212.873.6600. They are familiar with the situation at the Chelsea Hotel and can give you advice on responding to the…
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Just when things were pretty quite on the home front, several “demand for payment” notices have gone up on doors around the building. Some of the notices are for relatively small sums of money ($3,000). Perhaps people are traveling and simply haven’t paid their rent in a month or so. So if you’re out of…
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It has been a year since minority shareholders Marlene Krauss and David Elder unwisely ousted the Bard family and brought in Richard Born and Ira Drukier to manage the Chelsea Hotel. Many of the Ghosts who had been resting peacefully in the basement and lobby for hundreds of years were not amused and resistance ensued. …
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Wow, that was quick. No sooner had we mentioned Charles Ferri’s obnoxious proposal to put a "Legends Bar and Cafe" in the Chelsea Lobby, than the whole page mysteriously disappears from the Internet. (Ed’s note – Not really). Marlene must have bitch-slapped Ferri all the way back to Dubai for that presumptious little…
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Check out Chris Shott’s article in today’s NY Observer wherein he poses the question: who would be foolhardy enough to take a job managing the Chelsea? Somebody who’s never heard of the damn place, that’s for sure. He trots out a list of the usual suspects, such as Schrager and Balasz, but I suspect they…
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With David Bernstein’s time at the helm as general manager of the Chelsea Hotel scarcely a rumor and with hotel lay-about David Elder running off to California or god knows where at the slightest sign of trouble we thought Marlene needed some sort of device to keep the rumored incoming manager held accountable. In this…
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Poor, poor, misunderstood, mistreated Glennon Travis. When he arrived at the hotel "the physical plan and administrative structure of the hotel were in complete dissarray," and the "public areas and shared bathrooms were inundated with drug addicts and others who did not belong at the hotel." (When did he start exactly?) Nevertheless, he…
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Writer Paul Berger has a bang up piece about the Chelsea and its recent turmoil in The Guardian this week. Left out of the piece for reasons of space is the sad saga of long-time Chelsea resident Jann Paxton who is dying of cancer and – apparently receiving no sympathy from Krauss and Elder —…
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