We know it’s short notice but if you’re looking for something to do tonight from 6:00 – 9:00 there is a panel discussion addressing the crisis of diminishing availability of artists space in NYC,  with a special focus on the fate of 475 Kent Street, The Artists Settlement in South Williamsburg Brooklyn.  Residents of the…

A loyal French reader writes: Maybe you might be interested to know that the hotel chelsea has been mentioned today on the most followed french public national radio station, france inter. This was during an enterntainment program, called "le fou du roi". the reason was the re-interpretation of Leonard Cohen‘s song by a so-an-so french…

Betinna has fallen and broken her hip.  She is recovering nicely at St. Vincent’s Hospital in the Village.  Your cards and letters can be sent to her care of Room 707. Note New Room – 707.

Even the Easter Bunny feels the need to be creative when he drops by the Chelsea Hotel.  Though he probably faced a moral dilemma as to whether to grace our halls at all this year given the current sorry state of the management situation.   He left the eggs marked among other things “Eggthor C. Clarke,”…

On April 3, the Museum of the City of New York will host a reading and panel discussion to commemorate New York ’s famed Chelsea Hotel, home over the years to stars ranging from Dylan Thomas and Arthur Miller to Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen.  The public will have a unique opportunity to grill the…

A former resident, someone who cares deeply about the Chelsea, and who will be missed by those of us remaining, writes in to correct a common misperception: I think it should be established that BD Hotels does not just push out those behind in their rent, they force people who pay their rent. It still…

     We have it on good authority that BD is refusing to put through the calls of a resident it claims owes back rent, and what’s more, even telling people who call that the resident doesn’t live here!     Longtime phone operator Amy Miller has only been gone for a couple weeks and already…

Last Friday at about 5:00 a.m. the fire alarms went off and dozens of residents and guests gathered in the l obby — but we didn’t hear the alarms, and a lot of fellow residents didn’t either.  They must not be loud enough, or maybe they don’t go off on all floors.  And our question…

Thanks to Chris Schott for keeping the plight of the Chelsea in the news.  Writing in the Observer today, he exposes important details of BDs plan to gradually destroy everything that makes the Chelsea great.  He interviews four residents who were forced out (or are in the process of being forced out) of their apartments…