Living with Legends
Hotel Chelsea Blog
Category: Hotel Chelsea
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A list of articles about the ouster of the Bards that have appeared since last Saturday, July 7. MSM: Sunday Times (South Africa’s largest daily paper), Financial Times, New York Times Blogs: The Shophound, (Shophound thinks we have a "buzz generating restaurant" in our future here at the hotel), Newyorkology, NY Mag, curbed, blogchelsea Coverage…
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Two issues have come to our attention recently. One is the alarming number of missing rosettes on the staircase railing. Somebody needs to look into preventing this mindless vandalism in the future. The second issue is that BD Hotels has now embarked on a rate cutting policy. Below are some of the rates we’ve heard…
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There’s an interesting article in a 2004 issue of the New York Times about two of our new overlords, Ira Drukier and Richard Born. In what’s really little more than a puff piece, they brag that they are just “two guys with cell phones” who don’t even have any staff. They just go around…
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Long time Chelsea Hotel resident and mystery writer Sparkle Hayter has started a campaign to Bring Back the Bards. Here’s how you can join. Make a banner and take of photo of it and add it to the Bring Back the Bards flickr pool. A good place to take pictures of your banner if you…
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In today’s NY Times, Marlene Krauss talks about the future plans for the Chelsea Hotel which include "…cleaning it up and bringing it back to its former glory." We hope that we’re not part of the trash that gets swept out by Marlene Krauss’ planned spring cleaning binge. As for the former glory,…
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A listing of stories that have appeared since last Saturday. MSM: New York Times, Toronto Star, NY Post, The Villager, Raw Story, Blogs: Finally, we don’t have to do all of the work: Living with Leeches, curbed, libero, nymag.com, racked, vagablond, Not Available Online: 1010 Wins — The Joe Montone Show, Le Matin Bleu (Free…
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Born and Drukier (the new Chelsea overlords) are keeping busy bringing George Jetson and postmodernism to the West Village. They have chosen web designer Hani Rashi and Lise Anne Couture, known for creating “elaborate visual worlds” –which are probably really cool when you’re stoned—to design an eight-story, 24-unit condominium building at 166 Perry St. in…
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BD management has been moving slowly, however they have made a few opening salvos — no doubt hoping that no one notices. (Oh yes, we do notice.) One of the most obvious salvos of the new management, BD Hotels, is that they have painted the façade of the old Capitol Fishing Tackle, erasing the final…
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Natalie Mathis is a first responder in the war against the corporate greed that threatens to destroy the Chelsea. When she read on our blog about Stanley’s shameful ouster, she made up a bunch of buttons to show her support for the Bard family, and wore one when she was checking into the hotel. …
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