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  • Linda Troeller: Living and Working in the Chelsea Hotel

    The February issue of Double Exposure highlights the work and life of Chelsea Hotel resident and photographer Linda Troeller.  Spectacular photographs of glamorous residents past and present are featured. (Photo: www.lindatroller.com) In 1998 I spent some months photographing some of the terrific apartments in the hotel. When I heard that the hotel was approached by…

  • Investors Needed

    Our neighbor blogger Twenty Third & Seventh is asking for contributions to raise enough money to buy Michael Alig’s prison bracelet.  If you have some coins to spare throw some his way.

  • The E-Mail Bag

    At least once a week the blog receives an e-mail from a reader who writes, "How can I move into the legendary Hotel Chelsea?"  Well, we snuck in via a sublet.  If that fails, there is an apartment available in the East Village that a blog reader or two might be interested in renting.  It’s…

  • You Can Never Be Too Fabulous

    Susanne Bartsch, here, here, and here. (Photo: Women’s Wear Daily)

  • Green Building

    For the sake of art, they managed to turn the Communist Building across the street from the Chelsea green last Friday.  It was very atmospheric. (Photo: musiquegirl’s flickr pool)  The building formerly housed Kalem silent film studios.

  • Gorgeous Model Types Headed Our Way

    (via Craigslist) SATURDAY FEBRUARY 25TH at 2:00pm Casting CallNew York Based TV/Music Production group seeks young female actresses of all shapes and sizes for a new hip hop music related tv pilot. We are looking for actresses between the ages of 19 and 28. You will be asked to impersonate several contemporary hip hop artists,…

  • The Tourists Are Back

    Staying at the Hotel Chelsea made blogger Tia Maria homesick for Kentucky, in a good way.  No one will be surprised to learn that she’s also writing a novel.  Our tourists are the most literary in town. They were shooting a scene for a movie at the hotel. Pretty cool, huh? The place reminded me…

  • Irene Zevon Tschacbasov (1918-2006)

    Members of the Chelsea Hotel community were shocked and saddened to learn of the passing of painter Irene Tschacbasov over the weekend.  Irene had lived in the Chelsea for the past 50 years.  We all admired Irene’s quiet dignity.  Her husband Nahum Tschabasov, also a painter, died in 1984. His work hangs in the lobby…

  • The Algonquin Gives Writers A Break

    If you’ve got writers block, skip the Hotel Chelsea and go straight to the Algonquin.  If you stay here at the Chelsea, the block will probably get worse, since the "Do Not Disturb" sign will put a lot of extra pressure on you.  (It says: Do Not Disturb.  I’m Writing The Next Great American Novel.)…

  • Lost Footage of Edie Sedgwick

    Filmmaker David Weisman recently discovered over 30 hours of pristine 35mm outtake footage from the film CIAO Manhattan, believed lost for decades. Some of the footage features Edie Sedgwick.  Watch the film long enough and you will see some great footage of Uma Thurman’s mother Nena. A lot of Nena’s scenes didn’t make into the…