Living with Legends
Hotel Chelsea Blog
Category: Personal Accounts
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When we ran a piece about art hotels recently, a publicist (I assume) from a hotel in Louisville, my former hometown, wrote to make sure we knew about the art hotel there. He or she wanted us to know that theirs was not one of those phony, faux-bohemian art hotels I…
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Over on Flickr a recent visitor to the Hotel Chelsea recalls an intriguing conversation she had with one of our neighbors. don’t jump! that’s what the man said as i was taking this (photo). he lives at the chelsea. says two others have jumped. one was successful, the other not. ‘he was a murderer and…
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Well if this doesn’t beat all! First Stanley Bard raises our rent here at the Hotel Chelsea, and we could almost accept that, but now take a look at what he’s done to our rent receipt. He’s replaced this beautiful old-fashioned one that made us proud of our place of residence, with a soul-less computer…
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A reader of our blog wrote in with the query: “Have you ever written about the Prostitution Ring which is allowed to operate freely here at the Chelsea Hotel?” Well, no, we haven’t, chiefly because we didn’t know of its existence. But it sounds quite exciting, actually:…
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Here’s a clip from the rap chick search that we wrote about back in February. Watch it for yourself and see if you can spot the next Queen Latifah or Foxy Brown—or whoever the hell is hot in rap right now. http://legends.typepad.com/rap.mov (The movie takes a couple of minutes to download so be patient.) Here’s…
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I just read an article in BusinessWeek about how Ian Schrager has declared that "designed hotels" are over. Schrager has moved on to reinvent the so-called “art hotels.” Schrager, who gutted the old Gramercy Park Hotel, tossing it’s long-term residents to the curb, is collaborating with Julian Schnabel—an artist associated with the Chelsea Hotel—to create…
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What do you do? I sell Exotic Cars in Florida When did you stay at the Chelsea? 5/18/06-5/21/06 What inspired you to choose the Chelsea? Punk Rock Status and infamous history Do you think the Chelsea has a creative spirit? Definately…without it it would be just an old creepy hotel…which is cool too, but not…
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Linda Troeller sent us these photos of a fire which occurred at about 1:30 a.m. Friday, May 26. The photos were taken from the 9th floor of the Hotel Chelsea. Who has more details?
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Susan and I toured the Y Building last Sunday, or at least part of it. There was a design show in the 11-million-dollar loft condo on the seventh floor—you know, where they used to have the basketball courts and the running track, back in the good ol’ days. …
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Linda Troeller sent us this report from the memorial service for Arman, which was held at the MET earlier this week. The speakers included painter Frank Stella; collector Ronald Lauder; and actor Geoffry Holder among others. They spoke of his wit, shaman ways and the power of his art. In attendance were about 150+ family,…
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