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  • Thick Walls

    It must be true what they say about the walls being 3 feet thick around here at the Chelsea.  Look’s like Sally Singer had a dj at her dinner party and we didn’t hear a thing.

  • A Crossroads for Spirits: A Medium Visits the Chelsea

    We always knew the Chelsea was filled with ghosts.  There’s just too many frustrated artists roaming the halls for it to be otherwise, too many lost souls with unfinished business.  But leave it to our Anonymous Hotel Chelsea Blogger # 3 to bring a medium to the hotel in order to provide the definitivie proof…

  • BAD ENERGY AND TRANSIENT SPIRITS: Tim Sullivan and the Ghosts of the Chelsea

                The Chelsea has a reputation as being a welcoming haven for spirits–of both the living and the dead variety.  We asked longtime resident Tim Sullivan what he knew about the ghosts who inhabit the Chelsea.             Tim is a big man, with a gray tuft of beard and…

  • Thomas Wolfe Postcards: A Ghost Story At The Hotel Chelsea

    Novelist Susan Swan visited the Chelsea last summer, staying in Thomas Wolfe’s old room (you remember Thomas: he wrote "You Can’t Go Home Again" in room 829). She considers Wolfe a literary father-figure, and, as you can see from the following story, her stay at the Chelsea was for her a profoundly spiritual experience.First Installment:Thomas…

  • It’s All About Nicky Nichols Today

    As some of you may have already heard, the fabulous Nicky is threatening to escape from NY! Though LA could certainly use him, we can’t let Nicky leave the Chelsea!  If Nicky goes, so goes all the fun and a lot of the hotness. Isn’t the photo on the left the hottest resident picture ever?…

  • Artie Nash: Crime and Punishment at the Chelsea Hotel

    Even if you get a tattoo of the Chelsea, you still won’t have Artie Nash beat.  He has two!   Be sure to read page two of Artie’s interview or you’ll miss some exciting stuff like his encounter with the Mafia at Mamma Mia!, how he and Arthur Weinstein witnessed a gang riot and his…

  • Has The Chelsea Upgraded?

                According to a recent article in USA Today, hotels are spending billions on upgrades.  Here at the Chelsea, we do seem to be upgrading gradually, but this mainly involves just getting decent furniture in some of the rooms.  Back in the 90s we replaced the florescent lights and the checkerboard linoleum…

  • Another Satisfied Customer

    A middle-aged woman and her two teenage daughters had checked into the room next door to us at the Chelsea Hotel.  The woman, blond, Midwestern, overweight, was cheerful and seemed open minded—good qualities to have around this place.  Speaking to her in the hallway outside her room, I had to draw her out a little…

  • Tourists of the Week

    Robyn Johnson and Peter Newland spent a few days in Room 907 last month.  We’re happy to report that they got on well with the hotel’s legendary residents–both living and dead.  Robyn also said that she appreciated the lack of a gift shop.  But we think the Hotel should have a gift shop, perhaps in…

  • How Lothar Met Linda

              Double Exposure recently interviewed the Chelsea’s own Lothar Troeller.  Lothar got his first camera at age seven and never looked back.  He met his wife Linda in Salzberg where she was teaching.  Linda asked her students if they wanted to participate in her new project, “Erotic Lives of Men” and Lothar…