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  • All Tomorrow’s Parties: August 7 – 13, 2006

    Monday, August 7BLUE MONDAY – The Touch Massage party will not be held at Serena’s tonight and is looking for another venue for future parties.  Check their website for updates. We hear that someone from the hotel complained about the nudity.  (According to a professional masseur who works the event there is no nudity. Everyone…

  • A Room With Ghost: $4 and Up

    Bids start at $15.00 for this issue of Life Magazine from the mid-60s. Sounds like a bargain to me, but so far, only one bidder. Surely this artifact is worth something to somebody. The seller promises that the article about New York’s Most Illustrious Third Rate Hotel contains anecdotes of all the famous artists, musicians,…

  • Oliver Stones Got Nothing on the Chelsea

    This week, Newsweek has a big article about Oliver Stone’s new movie, World Trade Center, and Newsweek’s website discusses the proliferation of 9/11 art.  But of course, as usual, the Chelsea was way ahead of Hollywood. Filmmaker Luke Joerger’s short film First Person 911, a series of vignettes shot during the 9/11 attack and its…

  • Devendra Banhart Rocks, Trashes Room; Sid’s Old Mattress

    Rock and roll is here to stay.  Responding to Steven Kurutz’s dis of the Chelsea, several readers wrote in to recount their rock and roll experience at the Chelsea.    Former resident Bluehour tells us, “One day maybe I’ll write about the very nice rock star (Dee Dee Ramone) who peeled me off a sidewalk…

  • David Goodwillie Discovers His Muse at the Chelsea

    We seem to have stumbled upon a trend here. David Goodwillie is the third author we’ve interviewed who got into the Chelsea via a sublet arrangement.  It sounds like David’s arrangement turned out OK. He met Anna Wintour down in Serena’s and he scored a room with a view: "When I woke up and looked outside,…

  • Historian Unearths William Dean Howells’ Rent Receipt

    Sherill Tippins, the author of a forthcoming book on the history of the Hotel Chelsea, has been spending her time visiting the archives of famous former residents.  Among other interesting artifacts, she has been known to find old Hotel Chelsea rent receipts.  Recently she sent us a list of what apartments rented for at the…

  • Queer Eye Gets Help from Suite 303

    Tonight’s episode of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy features a female to male transgender makeover.  April Barton of Suite 303 will be on hand to lend her expertise. 10:00 p.m. Bravo channel.

  • THE LOST ART OF ANGLING (IN THE HUNDRED-DEGREE HEAT OF JULY)

                Capitol Fishing Tackle, which has been in its present location on the ground floor of the Chelsea Hotel for sixty-five years, is moving at the end of July.  Since we’d never been in there before, my girlfriend Susan and I figured we should visit the store at least once, and maybe…

  • Shameless Self Promotion: Legends Receives Blog of the Day Honor

    Each day, Six Apart selects one blog to promote as featured blog of the day.  Last Sunday, Legends received this honor.  Here’s what Six Apart had to say about our blog: “An amazing Slice-of-Life blog that chronicles the tapestry of personalities at the Chelsea .” They also reprinted a comment from one of our readers:…

  • Who Is The Hotel Chelsea’s Mystery Stud?

    We knew we had a prostitution ring around here, but we didn’t know about the stud services reportedly received by this tourist.  When Heidi checked in, either one of the bellmen–bellhops, she calls them– or a desk clerk, apparently started flirting with her immediately, and then, after she took a break to sample some of…