Living with Legends
Hotel Chelsea Blog
Category: Hotel Chelsea
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We recently received a nice e-mail from Kaare Ehrenskjöld, a blog reader from Denmark. He writes, "Just a quick word of thanks for your effort with this excellent blog… I find myself missing the place,so to be able to have some contact through your blog, is great when you are stuck in Denmark." That’s why…
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Last Wednesday I was sitting in the lobby and some kind of old time vaudeville-looking character walked by. Now I had no idea who on earth he was, but I could tell by the way he carried himself that I should’ve known who he was. He went to the front desk and chatted with the…
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Here’s another e-mail from an obviously well qualified potential Hotel Chelsea resident. She doesn’t say so in her e-mail, but I bet she would be willing to add another blog to her resume by joining the Legends team if she could score a room. Can anyone help her out? We would love to help since…
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Susan and I were walking up Eighth Avenue late one Saturday night. Susan was wearing a brown t-shirt that said Ciao Manhattan! As we approached the Hudson Diner we noticed a pretty girl in a floppy hat and a blond bob haircut sitting at an outdoor table sucking on a milkshake. She kept staring at…
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Tuesday, July 11, 5:30 – 9:30 p.m.Chez Gentry, an event organized around the current exhibition Moved by Music: Herbert Gentry Paintings, Prints, and Drawings. Gentry is best known for his figurative abstractions that were inspired by the spontaneous rhythmic expressions of jazz. Jazz music by Dick Griffin. Gallery talk by Mary Anne Rose (Chelsea Hotel…
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Keren Ann has announced that she will play a benefit concert tonight at 10:00 p.m. at the Bowery Poetry Club. $20.00 minimum donation at the door. Money will go to the Tangier Bike Project. The Bowery Poetry Club is located at 308 Bowery.
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Time Out New York is a load of laughs this week. As one of their suggested "Staycations" — that’s a vacation where you stay in the city — they suggest you check into the Chelsea Hotel and ask for room 100, Sid’s room. As if the desk clerks don’t have enough nonsense to…
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We wish to express our condolences to our illustrious proprietor Stanley Bard, who has been excluded from this year’s Village Voice “10 Worst Landlord List”. We know he was really shooting for it, but hey, there’s a lot of competition in this town, and sometimes these things just don’t work out. …
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Caterer and Hotelkeeper magazine has helpfully provided us with a list of 11 concepts that have changed the face of the hotel industry in the past few decades. Because we had nothing better to do today, we thought we’d see how our own favorite hotel measures up to the industry standard: 1. The Internet. Amazingly,…
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