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Hotel Chelsea Blog
Category: Hotel Chelsea
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Now that we’ve swept BD Hotels into the dustbin of Chelsea history, let their onerous regulations also be exorcised once and for all from our fair building! Remember when they first arrived, and, scowling, stood in our way and physically barred us from retrieving our mail from behind the front desk? That area behind the…
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Check out Chris Shott’s Observer article on last weekend’s confrontation between hotel layabout David Elder, recently promoted (or was he?) to a position of somewhat greater power, and hotel resident and pro-Stanley Bard activist Arthur Nash. Amid the hilarious recounting of Elder being chased by his doppelganger, having an unspecified (hopefully noxious)…
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Now that hotel layabout David Elder has finally gotten a taste of power, it seems to have gone to his head completely. He has taken to wearing bad suits, apparently cast-offs from the cut-rate funeral parlor, and worse, he has hired his own goon squad to stand in the lobby, to stalk the halls on…
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As we’ve indicated earlier, Legends was able to obtain the court papers relating to BD NY Hotels vs. Chelsea 23rd Street Corp. Interestingly enough, these papers include an itemized list of the hotel’s expenditures over the last few months of 2007. Rest assured, we are studying these closely to see where our rent money is…
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Well, BD hasn’t come back, and as such, I just want to step back and point out—before we lose sight of this in our ongoing struggle–that their ouster represents a great victory for the residents of the Chelsea Hotel. And it’s a victory not only for us, but for tenants of New York as a…
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A tipster writes in to report that David Elder’s twin made an appearance at the Chelsea last evening and Elder himself was none too pleased. He tried to bar his long lost relation from entering the ballroom. When he came face-to-face with his doppleganger — a reflection of his guilty conscience –he fled in terror…
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Now that she has fired the elite BD Hotels from their job of managing the Chelsea Hotel, Marlene Krauss has launched an aggressive outdoor ad campaign to attract a new manager. Obviously, she has quickly come to the realization that anybody who walks in off of the street could do a better job than Chelsea…
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Chelsea Hotel historian Sherill Tippins has written in to provide us with this fascinating tidbit that we hadn’t known before: "I just rediscovered this little factoid while editing Part I of my book: The Chelsea Hotel’s birthdate (the day it opened and residents began moving in) is Oct. 1, 1884."…
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David Elder’s various plots to fleece the elderly are not bearing much fruit lately. His attempt to take Stanley Bard to the cleaners has now cost him and Marlene (and of course the other shareholders) a ton of money, as well as the last shred of their already tattered credibility. And now a California judge…
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Legends has recently been able to obtain the court documents filed in BD’s suit contesting their termination by Marlene Krauss. Among the more disturbing revelations is BD’s claim that there is still asbestos in the building. This is a ticking time bomb, and it is outrageous that the residents of this building…
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