It seems that filmmaker Steve Marcus was shooting outside of the Hotel back in June 2007 and captured some live action that went down after the mice got the word that the Bards were out.  The rodent in this film is not as fortunate as the rodent in "Legends" who is thrown from the balcony…

Here are a couple of recent e-mails from our readers/hotel guests.  Reader number one seems to be having trouble getting a straight answer about the room rates, while Reader # 2 as to whether to come to the hotel at all.  "On Monday, the rate was $189 for a Saturday night stay in a room…

Good Afternoon. I own the Knickerbocker, an apartment building in Albany and some one who wants to take photos of my building and tenants is compairing us to the Chelsea Hotel.  Am I supposed to thank him for the compliment or punch him for being insulting? Name Redacted

Well, I guess we can’t count on Roger Waters to help save the Chelsea.  According to a new book, Comfortably Numb, the Chelsea Hotel was the scene of Waters last bad acid trip.  Waters may want to give us another chance however and stop back by, since we hear that the drugs are much better…

Yes!!!! The Chelsea still has it! It’s refreshing to be reminded that, despite renovations, gentrification, and the corporate takeover, the Chelsea still retains an almost supernatural power to scare the bejesus out of unsuspecting tourists.  And this one’s from Ireland, too, which is not exactly famous for its luxury accommodations.   Show me the worst flophouse…

Heads up all of you fabric and textile designers and in general all of you creative people here at the Chelsea Hotel.  BD Hotels is being sued for knocking off Eames patterns at the Pod Hotel.  That’s no surprise to us however, as the whole place is chintzy by definition.

We’ve been suggesting for a while that BD’s strategy is to bankrupt the hotel so that they can buy it cheap.  How else to explain their slashing of rates, warehousing of rooms, doubling of staff and otherwise mismanaging the hotel. In an interview for The New York Sun Richard Born comes clean on his strategy:…

Here’s an example of how the minority share holders and BD Hotel are capitalizing on the Chelsea’s historical spaces.  (Please note that some of the videos and photos are Not Safe for Work or for your children.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8BS835fcVYhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tuyBflxufg

In March 2006 I came to New York for the first time to audition to Juilliard. I was finishing my music undergrad in Sweden, where I’m from. I booked tickets to stay in NY for a week. The first two nights I stayed at the worst place imaginable that I had booked from Sweden, not…