Living with Legends

Hotel Chelsea Blog

recent posts

about

Category: Hotel Chelsea

  • BROTHER OF RENOWNED SLAM POET VISITS THE CHELSEA

    When we were in Washington, D.C.recently, we had breakfast with José Padua, his wife Heather, and their lovely and intelligent 3-year-old daughter Maggie.  José is a poet and former downtown fixture who got his start at the Nuyorican Poet’s Café back in the eighties.  He mentioned that his brother Pat was going to be in…

  • The $pirit of Edie $edgwick Returns as a $hoe

  • Jimi Hendrix the Butt of Welsh Humor

    It’s a good month for music fans and/or fans of scratchy old 8-tracks.  First, we have a 1970 recording of the Welsh national anthem, “Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau,” that sounds like the screeching of nine or ten cats with their tails tied together.  This, the Welsh people would have us believe, is one of the…

  • Devil’s Plaything at the Chelsea

    Craig McDean’s intimate film of supermodel Karen Elson and former bassist with The Smashin Pumpkins and Hole, Melissa Auf der Maur, performing SHOWstudio’s new singing cover, Danzig’s ‘Devil’s Plaything’, at the Chelsea Hotel in New York.

  • Mark Twain The Inventor Stops by the Chelsea

    Recently, Google made it easier for users to search through 7 million patents dating back to 1776.  If your into that sort of thing here’s what you might find: Samuel Clemens patent for improvement in scrapbooks, filed June 24, 1873.  So, now we know, Mark Twain is responsible for the "self-pasting" scrapbook.   If you…

  • Greetings From Nowhere

    Although the blog is a lot of work, letters like this make it all worthwhile.   J. is the second person we’ve heard from who plans to take advantage of the hotel’s winter special — affordable rooms, like the good ol’ days!  We hope Julie is able to maintain her enthusiasm after a night within these…

  • Robin Adams: “The Strangely Dispositioned Residents of the Chelsea”

    We met the cameraman Robin Adams when he was filming us for an episode of the Japanese T.V. show "Streets of New York."  It turns out he stayed here back in 1990.  Too bad he didn’t see any ghosts, because he would have been just the man to capture them on film.  This time he…

  • A Virtual Tour of Hawk Alfredson’s Paintings

    Now you don’t even have to leave the safety of your home to enjoy Hawk Alfredson’s paintings. Supertone Surfin Dude Tim Sullivan has uploaded a virtual tour of Hawk Alfredson’s paintings.  The video and the music were created by Ted Stauber.

  • Roberto Bentivegna Checks In To Check Out

    Filmmaker Roberto Bentivegna recently stopped by the Chelsea to film a short murder mystery.  Thanks for giving us another ghost to be on the look out for!  We hope he’s talking hypothetically when he says that he can’t think of a better place to kill oneself than the Chelsea Hotel.  Oh, and if anybody knows…

  • Can You get a Room at the Chelsea Through Priceline or Expedia?

         I recently read this piece on BudgetTravelOnline called “Confessions Of… A Front Desk Clerk.”  I was going to say that I’m sure our desk clerks here at the Chelsea have much better confessions to relate, but actually, this piece is mis-titled.  These are just bitchings of a front desk clerk, or, at best,…