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Hotel Chelsea Blog
Category: Hotel Chelsea
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I called someone living at the hotel yesterday and was put on hold. In the past, when they put you on hold you would get this nice pleasant voice telling you all about the glorious history of the Chelsea Hotel, “one of the most famous hotels in the world,” and its past residents and their…
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Concerned parents should check out this article about where to find a child friendly hotel. One place you can forget about is the Chelsea where we have a anti-child policy in place barring unsupervised kids from the lobby. It’s a shame because the Chelsea Hotel in the old days was welcoming to all age ranges.…
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A tribute to our favorite tackle shop, Capitol—an early casualty in the war between the Chelsea Hotel and the BD usurpers—appears in last Sunday’s issue of The Independent. Thanks to Keith Elliott for keeping the issue in the news, and for pointing out that Capitol’s customers might just as well include tattooed weirdoes and 6-feet…
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A recent issue of the Village Voice highlights the matter of illegal hotel conversion, whereby landlords clandestinely transform apartment buildings filled with long term tenants into transient hotels for businessmen. This was an issue brought into the public consciousness by Chris Lombardi of Chelsea Now in an ongoing series about such buildings as the Execu-stay…
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Here’s the new Hotel Chelsea business card. I guess it’s supposed to represent the sign on the façade of the building, but it really looks more like a tombstone to me. (The actual sign is of course not shaped like an oblisk.) It’s a fitting epitaph for the death of culture in New York. But…
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A West Coast reader calls for Stanley Bard to be reinstated on the Board.
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Pianist and singer/songwriter Adam Rushfield, who goes by the professional name of Jaz Jericho, comes from a long line of musical talent: his great grandfather banged singer Sophie Tucker! When we met with Adam in his tiny room/music studio recently, he played us a tape of longtime resident 87-year- old Stormé DeLarverié belting out an…
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Wishing all you Chelsea Hotel residents a joyous holiday season, and a wonderous New Year in your new homes — wherever they may be. Beamingly yours, The Minority Shareholders and BD Hotels
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Last year we compared our Chelsea Hotel christmas tree with that of the Allerton Hotel on 22nd and 8th Avenue, and found that our sawed-off little runt came up seriously short. But this year we blew them away! (Photo: Chelsea Hotel Lobby, 2007) Seriously, the Allerton which closed over the summer, was home…
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