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  • Club Med for Rats

    Reportedly BD Hotels plan to open a spa in the basement of the hotel.  We hope this will replace Star Lounge which genuinely needs replacing with something or the other.   We think however that the spa is intended to complement Star Lounge.  It will be a place where the millionaires can recharge their batteries after…

  • Where’s Stanley?

    Earlier today, right by the benches near the elevator, facing out so you could read it was a white board alerting people that Stanley Bard is no longer the Manager of the hotel.  It was quickly taken down.   But not before somebody got a picture.  Surprise, surprise people want to talk to the man…

  • Family Values: Creativity, Anti-Gentrification and Rockin’ Tee Shirts

    Joe, Casebeer &  Tosh booked their room back in April before the despicable hostile takeover of the hotel.  In other words, the reason they wanted to come to the hotel was for the Bard family and the Chelsea Hotel family, not for the 99 cent Internet room specials that BD is promoting to drive up…

  • Something Fishy At the Chelsea

    It seems that the Mafia has targeted David Elder.  We’ve received multiple reports that the NYPD Bomb Squad was called to the hotel Friday because Chelsea Hotel layabout and Board Member David Elder received what he thought was a suspicious package.  Turns out it wasn’t suspicious at all it was just a dead fish head.…

  • Filmmaker Theresa Duncan Reported Dead

    Filmmaker Theresa Duncan, a friend of the Chelsea Hotel and fellow blogger, has reportedly died.   The LA Observed reports that she killed herself in New York. Her boyfriend Jeremy Blake is reported missing. In her 2005 interview with us she talks about her favorite Hotel Chelsea story and speaks hopefully of a future that would…

  • Save Piri Thomas

    Our friends over at "Save Piri Thomas" have started a countdown to August 6th and here’s why.    According to the records of the Los Angeles Superior Court, Piri has indeed asked a judge to rule on David Elder’s obvious unfitness to serve as his Trustee. The hearing will be held at 8:30AM on August…

  • One Month Post Ouster: Stanley Bard Talks to Gothamist

    In an extremely revealing interview, Stanley Bard talks about what the past month has been like for him. He also discusses his fears for the future of the Chelsea Hotel and its residents.     Also, the plot thickens regarding Board Member David Elder’s demented shenaganins. Let’s just review what we’ve learned about the scoundrel of…

  • Grand Ball Room to Become Youth Hostel?

      Earlier this week we noticed some very suspicious renovations going on in the Grand Ball Room.  Oddly, given the fact that they seem to be partitioning the space, we don’t see a permit on file at the Department of Buildings for this work. (We feel pretty certain that one is required.  Be sure to…

  • Skeleton Key to the Chelsea Closet

    UPDATE:  Vote now to support Piri Thomas and help send David Elder back to California! Dig this, Happy Chelsea Campers:  our favorite Lovecraftian abomination, board member and Hotel Chelsea layabout David Elder, apparently has a long and distinguished history of separating artists from their money.  When David’s mother died in 1986, she left her 16%…

  • Stanely Bard: Patron of Punk Rock

         Musician/Blog reader Don has been staying at the Chelsea off and on for 10 years.  Don had already reserved a room for later this month when he got the word that the Bards had been ousted from their management role.  Don decided to call and talk to Stanley and/or one of the old…