Living with Legends
Hotel Chelsea Blog
Category: Personal Accounts
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Sherill Tippins (February House), who’s writing a history of the Chelsea Hotel, recently unearthed an original floor plan for the hotel. She writes:Your particular apartment was for rent in 1884, as the parlor room of a 2-BR-plus-servants’ room with one bath–1200 square feet in all–renting for $1,200 per year. The closet you had hoped Stanley…
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To celebrate its 40th anniversary, the Mayor’s Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting has created an interactive Flash map that shows where movies and shows have been shot. The map isn’t comprehensive by any means. For the entire neighborhood of Chelsea only two movies are included — "I Shot Andy Warhol," which was filmed on…
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Or Australia, or somewhere else.
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In disIntegration, Michele Zalopany’s realistic pastel paintings, some in color, some black and white, chronicle the birth and death of the American Dream—in parallel Black and White varieties–in her home town of Detroit, from it’s inception in the boom years of World War II, to it’s last gasp in the deadly riots of 1967. It…
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I can’t remember a time when there were more people in the Chelsea Hotel lobby, must’ve been more than a hundred. As we munched on sausage strips and potato balls courtesy of El Quijote, long time tenant Merle – remarked that Stanley should have theme parties for the residents and guests every week, since we…
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The video is only 3 minutes and it’s worth the wait to hear the review of Les Paul’s recent performance. Plus, it looks like the record company managed to score a pretty nice room.
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Filmmaker DeeDee Halleck sent us her memories of Shirley Clarke to post on the anniversary of Shirley Clarke’s death. I tried to meet DeeDee at the plaque unveiling so I could thank her in person, but there were so many people there I didn’t get a chance to say thanks. Shirley Clarke was my mentor. …
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Andrew O’Hara said… There seems to be an increase of these self-promoting "blogs" from companies like Penguin, and (my opinion) the tediously name dropping Hotel Chelsea, wanting you to think they’re just a few of the good ol’ fellas from the company with a burning urge to share some kind of back-door scoop. Cheaper than…
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