Category: Hotel Chelsea
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Painter Jan Cremer has added more photos taken at the Chelsea Hotel to his website.Jan & Nico, and Jan in room 403 in 1966.
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If you were at the Hotel Chelsea back in 1978 you would be grabbing your coat and heading to the fire escape. I was recently talking to one of my neighbors about the big fire of 1978 and she recalled that Tex, who used to always play music in the lobby, knocked on her door…
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What do you do?I am a jazzmusician/artist from Frankfurt/Germany. Now I live in Seoul since 2001. When and for how long did you stay at the Chelsea?First time in 1975.I had arrived late at night from Germany & could not reach my friends in NY. So I asked a taxi-driver to get me into a…
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In this issue of Hotel Chelsea Newsmakers we salute the women of the Chelsea whose names begin with the letter S. The Kansas City Star reviews Susan Swan’s What Casanova Told Me. Macleans points us to Susan’s preference for holistic medicine. And, this busy lady recently moderated a panel about the safety of a proposed…
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A middle aged man in a blue uniform came into the Chelsea. He was small, with a little round stomach, balding, with a tuft of black hair sticking straight up from his forehead. Apparently, he couldn’t get his shampoo machine into the hotel because a moving truck was parked in the way. He started complaining…
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Monday, Jan. 9, 7:00 p.m.David Johnston’s new play, Candy & Dorothy is based on the lives of bohemians Dorothy Day and Candy Darling. Candy Darling was one of Warhol’s "superstars," and starred in "Chelsea Girls." Born James Slattery, Darling died of leukemia on March 21, 1974, at the age of 29. She was memorialized in Lou…
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Revolutionary drag-queen, Warhol superstar, and actor Holly Woodlawn was at a high point in her career when she moved into Hotel Chelsea. She had just starred in Warhol’s crossover hit Trash for which she received outstanding notices. Famous ‘women’s director’, George Cukor [the Philadelphia Story, the Women, My Fair Lady‘], was so taken by Woodlawn’s…
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From WFMU’s Beware of the Blog comes a tale of a failed suicide here at the Hotel Chelsea. I find it hard to believe that someone jumped from the roof and lived. Perhaps this is the guy we heard of who flung himself down the stairwell and bounced back and forth off of the wrought…
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And Renee Ricard hides in his room. If Sienna had waited until the holidays to stop by maybe she could have caught the slug fest that went down in the lobby between Renee and The Painter. Sienna wants to hear Edie’s voice and has been told that the brilliant artist René Ricard might have rare…
