Living with Legends
Hotel Chelsea Blog
Category: Hotel Chelsea
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There was a new guy staying next door in the transient room. “I hear him out there,” my girlfriend Susan said. “Open the door and see what he looks like. Maybe we can interview him for the blog.” It was late at night and she had just settled into bed. I didn’t feel like talking…
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Monday, July 3, dusk If you haven’t seen director Robert Altman’s first studio feature, M*A*S*H, in a while here’s your chance. About a month ago we met Altman’s charming wife Kathryn at a party here at the Chelsea Hotel. Bryant Park, Note: The lawn opens at 5pm. Though the film won’t begin until dusk (between…
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Six young guys are trying to check into the Hotel Chelsea late on Saturday night of Pride Weekend. Desk clerk: Two beds for four men, not six! Not six men for two beds. [Pause] That’s a different hotel! –Hotel Chelsea, W. 23rd St (via Overheardinnewyork.com)
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Here is a random survey of Google, Yahoo, and MSN searches that brought people to the blog this week. A search for David Bard, but not Stanley Bard? If only we knew what was on their minds. In any event, at least this tells us what sort of topics readers of the blog are interested…
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A recent Chelsea Hotel guest visiting from Atlanta Ga was a little disappointed. (via tripadvisor.com) God knows there are plenty of things to be disappointed about around here, but this lady seems to have got off easy: I had a bad feeling when I booked our room at the Chelsea Hotel. I was given a…
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Luke Joerger who runs the Chelse Hotel Vlogs and Pods site sends us news of an exciting new documentary series, "Antique Roadkill." If you watch the videos closely you will see a couple of Chelsea denizens , Suzanne Lipschutz, and Leonard Thomkinson make appearances in the documentary. ANTIQUE ROADKILL follows three New York City dealers…
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A couple of weeks back Hotelchatter.com introduced a new feature called Hotel Blog Watch. Blog watch will review corporate hotel blogs to see if they have anything worthwhile to report. While they gave Legends credit for being one of the first Hotel blogs to hit the scene, they once again erroneously reported that our blog…
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The unreaonable man writes: "I checked in and left my bag there a few minutes ago. The Chelsea is a place with “character”, and plenty of it… That means, in Real Estate language, that it is a dump. But a dump with a lot of history… I was of course immediately suckered into taking not…
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We’re constantly looking for ways in which Stanley Bard might improve service here at the Hotel Chelsea, and hopefully also make piles of dough for him to roll around in like Scrooge McDuck in his McMansion in the wilds of New Jersey. A recent article in the New York Times suggests Guest Galleries…
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Our old Chelsea Hotel-mate Blair Wear (alter ego, Blair Bauer) is showing her hand painted, one-of-a-kind clothes and accessories as part of a show in the East Village. Titled “In a Girl’s World,” it’s billed as an All Female Urban Art Exhibition. We went to the press party for the show on Thursday at the…
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