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Hotel Chelsea Blog
Category: Hotel Chelsea
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If you live at the Chelsea, it has perhaps come to your attention that a beloved long term employee—here for almost three decades—was last week unceremoniously removed from his or her job. Though discretion prevents us from revealing the employee’s name, position, or the nature of his or her alleged offense in a public forum,…
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We’ve heard it through the grapevine that BD is getting set to reveal their plans for the future of the hotel. Among their many less-than-innovative ideas, they apparently plan to install key cards on the doors of the transient rooms. What a brilliant stroke of genius, and a tremendous waste of money. Hey, News flash:…
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Surprise! Glennon got an early holiday gift in the form of a wanted poster pasted in the elevator. It’s a good thing to as he was getting really jealous over all of the attention being paid to David Elder. If I remember correctly the reward was higher for Elder – a bunch of virgins or…
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10. “Hotel Management For Dummies” 9. Dapper Dan hair pomade 8. Lawyers, guns and money (to get him out of here) 7. Goldfish heads, dog poop, and a wanted poster, just like David Elder 6. Margarita mix 5. A fan to clear out residents’ pot smoke, and a battering ram to bust down scofflaws doors…
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As you can see by this year’s holiday employee list, Glennon Travis, the man lately posing as manager of the Chelsea, has had the unparalleled audacity to actually suggest that residents send him a holiday card (presumably filled with money), to reward him for his services for the past half-year. This is unprecedented in the…
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Bettina had never allowed us into her apartment before, but the painter Robert Lambert described it as a bat cave, with narrow corridors winding through piles of papers and boxes that stretched almost to the ceiling. Hotel workers couldn’t get in to repair the radiator, and so Bettina, who lacked the physical strength to move…
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In an interview with Paul Hawkins, former Chelsea Hotel resident Joe Ambrose says that the Chelsea’s heyday was over long ago (see my recent essay for a rebuttal) and that we’re all just a bunch of rich, whiney cry babies who should shut up and move out. Well, I know I’m filthy rich, and certainly…
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One of our fellow Bohemians recently alerted us that “manager” Glennon Travis called the police because he imagined that someone was smoking pot in the hallway. Reportedly, the cops showed up but didn’t consider the situation life threatening and left without doing anything. (I hope they expressed their annoyance to Glennon for wasting their time.)…
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In a recent article in The New York Sun, experts are quoted projecting a glut in the number of new hotel rooms coming onto the New York market in the next few years. One of the Chelsea Hotel overlords, Richard Born, foresees doom and gloom for the hospitality industry in New York City. “There will…
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Back in the nineties I used to run into Abel Ferrara frequently, marveling at him as he lumbered around the hotel, a paper-bagged bottle of Bud in one hand, and usually accompanied by one or more beautiful women. A larger than life character if there ever was one, when I talked to Abel recently he…
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