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  • Correction: NCHM Does Not Avert PR Disaster

    We have been informed, and rightly we believe, that the New Chelsea Hotel Management (aka: BD Hotels) did not actually avert a public relations disaster.  It is, and still remains, a public relations disaster.  We hope that it remains a public relations disaster until Stanley and David are back where they belong.  It’s clear from…

  • New Chelsea Hotel Management Company Averts Public Relations Disaster

    The recent move by the Board of Directors, led by Marlene Krauss, to replace Stanley Bard with Ira Drucker Associates, has proved none too popular in these parts. Due to overwhelming tenant support and media interest, Stanley has been allowed to stay on at the hotel, albeit in a reduce role of "Consultant’ or "goodwill…

  • New Management Company

    We’ve learned that the new management company is Ira Drucker Associates. Drucker was involved in the conversion of the Covenant House into the Maritime Hotel. He also recently partnered with other developers to develop the two Richard Meier glass towers on Perry Street.

  • A Message From Stanley Bard

    Stanley Bard is back in the building today for what appears to be his final day as manager of the Chelsea Hotel.  We asked him if he would like to say a few words to the tenants of the hotel. CB:  Do you have a statement for the tenants and other readers of this blog?…

  • Top 10 Questions for the New Management Team

    Where’s Stanley?Here’s my portfolio, can I get a room? Can I stay in Sid’s room?Where’s the hotel bar? Did Harry Smith keep a zombie in his room?Can we go up on the roof?Do you plan to take down the art?Can we have a laundry room in the basement?Do you know who the bloggers are?Are you…

  • Board-Directed Coup Topples Chelsea Hotel’s Famed Manager Stanley Bard

    The breaking news at New York’s famed Chelsea Hotel is that managing partner Stanley Bard, and the rest of the Bard family, have been forced out by their board of directors. Starting Monday, an as yet unnamed new management company will take over the day-to-day operations of the hotel. The beloved Stanley—everyone calls him by…

  • Bard Family Out?

    Update —   We have talked to a source who has spoken with the Bards.  They have been forced out of their management role.  As far as we know they still retain their ownership share.  Stanley Bard took over operation of the hotel from his father, David Bard, in the mid-1950s. (By the  way, today, June…

  • A Politico Visits the Basement

    U.S. Presidential candidate Mike Gravel (D- Sen. Ala. Retired) speaks to Queerty.com readers on June 14, 2007 at the Star Lounge of the Hotel Chlesea in New York City. Gravel expressed adamant support for the rights of lesbian, gay and transgendered Americans to the assembled crowd. More at Queerty.com (Photo: Your Pal Matt)

  • How Does It Feel To Be One of the Beautiful People?

         It’s gratifiying to see that they’re paying attention to the Chelsea out there in the Heartland.  Joe Atkins of Mississippi’s Clarion-Ledger came to New York for a conference, loved the Chelsea — though his wife didn’t share his enthusiasm–and even managed to convince himself that the rooms here are moderately  priced.     Joe’s…

  • AUSTRALIAN DOCUMENTARY ON THE GENTRIFICATION OF THE CHELSEA HOTEL IS A FIRST

    The other night I was sitting out on my blogging perch when a girl called out from the fire escape two floors below, “Hey, I saw you on ABC!”  “What on earth?” I wondered.  “What was I doing on ABC?”  I called down.  I must really be some kind of big time celebrity now, I…