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Hotel Chelsea Blog
Category: Hotel Chelsea
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Finally, a tourist with a video camera shows up and provides a tour of the art in the stair well. We only have one suggestion, how about a little narration next time. We’d like to hear your art criticism. On view are works by: Hiroya, Vali Myers, Hawk Alfredson, Donato (the guy who let the…
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So, for those of you who’ve been dying to get a drink in the basement, The New York Post lets us in on the secret. A room key isn’t a guarantee, however. At Hotel Chelsea, a VIP elevator brings special guests through Star Lounge’s employee entrance. But not every tenant gets the royal treatment. “We…
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Here’s a tourist who recently sprung for one of our palatial renovated rooms–and she was not disappointed! Notice how she’s totally down with the funky odors in the halls, unlike some people we know. Well, we hope she found the creative inspiration that she was looking for here amongst the "still kicking creaks"–whatever, or whomever,…
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Holly Bower represents a piece of the Chelsea’s artistic and activist heritage. She was the first woman still photographer to be admitted into the photographer’s union. Filmmaker Seppo Korpippa, (who, by the way, has the same Finnish publisher as Charles Bukowski) tells us how the footage below came about: I met photographer Holly Bower in…
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James Altucher lived in the Chelsea for three years, beginning in 1995 (the same year we moved in). When he was getting ready to move in, his grandmother cautioned him not to mention that his grandfather had stayed here in 1929 and trashed his room in a pillow fight (Financial Times, March 6, 07). She…
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Nobel prize winning poet Derek Walcott has a new compilation out, Selected Poems. Derek was on NPR last week. Painter and pool shark Phillip Taaffe is profiled in The New York Times. A bunch of the people from the Chelsea are featured in the travel section of today’s London Times.
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Please extend a warm welcome to Jonny Where. Maybe he’ll hang out and play his guitar for us in the lobby. And if the spoil sports at the desk object, he can play it in the halls. Long live Rock and Roll — Drunk & Beyond! Hi, I enjoy your blog. We will be staying…
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We knew that you had to pay a fee to do a photo shoot around here, but hey can’t they make an exception for a dominatrix? Known as a bohemian hotel with each room being different and with a lot of character. I thought such a free wheeling establishment wouldn’t mind if we took a…
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Diede In’t Veld is the second student we’ve stumbled across in recent months who approached the Chelsea about shooting a project here, but couldn’t afford the rates. Diede’s film, "Sleeping in Chelsea" is about a businessman who discovers an ad in the paper that reads "Hotel Chelsea More than just a hotel, a place where…
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At the Trump International on Columbus Circle you can get room service from Jean Georges for about $800 for a dinner for two, and a chef named Kyle will prepare it in your kitchenette since you wouldn’t want your toast to get cold on the trip up from the restaurant (Bruni, NYT, March 14, 07). …
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