Here’s a rumor that we’ve heard:"Today apparently employees of the hotel came in to get their checks and they weren’t signed so no one got paid.  Management didn’t call to tell people, so people came from the bronx, queens, and brooklyn to find that their checks weren’t ready.  Major foul on the part of BD. …

     Hey, are these kids making fun of us?  How dare they?!  Ah, they’re just having fun, and the real shame is that young artists like this can’t move in here anymore.  We need people like this who understand what the Chelsea is about, even if they don’t take it all that seriously –…

I wish I may, I wish I might. . . As reported in a recent New York Observer article (Max Abelson, 1/28), our dark mistress Marlene Krauss seems to have forgotten her roots and decided to put on airs (heirs?), casting herself as an heiress to the vast Chelsea Hotel fortune.  In case you don’t…

The good news just keeps getting better.  It has come to our attention that our intrepid Director of Operations, Glennon Travis, unable to resist the siren song of Internet social communities, is now on facebook.  In case you’ve forgotten, Glennon received a bit of good natured ribbing for his incredibly silly Myspace page, which he…

A reader writes:"Hey just read your most current blog post and thought I’d send some photos I took of the firefighters Friday night.  I had just returned from an evening exploring the east Village when I saw all the fire engines outside the hotel.  The first thing that popped into my head was, ‘Wow, this…

Things started off with a bang Friday evening as dozens of firefighters tromped through the lobby to battle what turned out to be a false alarm on one of the floors above.  Sid’s ghost was unusually active stopping the elevator on the first floor to get on or off with some regularity.  There was another…

      Stanley has a long history of renting this place out to film crews, but now it seems we really are a sound-stage. Check out the new “production” section on the hotel’s official web site.      Hard to believe BD is touting our “distinctive rooms and striking architecture” since they were all set…

"I stayed at Chelsea a few years back and while planning to come back for a quick visit, i found out about the horrors.  Not much i can do from Sweden, but at least i can support you with something to print up. Know that you have friends you don´t know."EskilEskil, we suggest that you…

The only historical fact listed on the Hotel Riverview’s web site is that the Titanic crew stayed there during the inquiry into that disaster (“detained” is how they phrase it, making it sound like the place was being used as a prison”).  (The Chelsea Hotel housed some of the Titanic survivors as well.) But until…

Filmed in 1974 in artist Richard Bernstein’s room (Room 600, the Grand Ballroom on the first floor of the Chelsea Hotel, which was recently chopped up and turned into office space by BD Hotels) Perich captured a typical Chelsea scene: artists talking about their work. Perich’s film features interviews with Bernstein, filmmaker Shirley Clarke and…