Living with Legends
Hotel Chelsea Blog
Category: Personal Accounts
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We’re always glad to be of help to folks in the neighborhood. Here’s an e-mail from a reader who’d like to connect with someone who lives in the Chelsea. I was walking west on 23rd Street yesterday (10/25) whistling along with a recording on my iPod of an amazing “Shakedown Street” from the Grateful Dead’s…
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The Whole Foods on 7th Ave. and 24th St. in Chelsea is a nightmare in many ways—please, don’t get me started!—but if you get there right when the doors open at 8AM it’s bearable. They have good coffee at their coffee bar in back of the store, and a wide variety of hot teas. They…
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In the latest apparent triumph for the fans of gentrification, the Allerton Hotel on W. 22nd St. is rumored to have been sold to a developer for $17 million. It’s not a very attractive building so of course the initial reports indicate that it will not be torn down. Though few will miss the scuzzy…
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We question the authenticity of the commenter below, but our response is after the comment. On the assumption that you live just across the street, I’d like to invite you to visit my apartment and share a free and frank exchange of views on the development of the Y (you might find our views on…
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In this stellar piece of investigative journalism, New York Magazine discovers that Susanne Bartsch and David Barton eat food. Great photo, too!
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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?…
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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…
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Yikes! You’d think that bed bug worries would be horror enough! The Conrad Hotel in Chicago is showing classic horror movies such as “Dracula” and “Frankenstein” on Sundays and Mondays in October. A program like this would not go over so well at the Chelsea, as it would hit too close to home. We have…
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We’ve written before of what a shame it is that the old McBurney Y has been turned into a condo building for soulless yuppies, but a recent photo spread in New York Magazine brought the point home in a much more visceral manner. It’s the specifics that do the job. The floor that held the…
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