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  • New Yorkers Join Mayoral Candidate Rev. Billy for the Blessing of the Water

    AQUA-A-LUJAH!!!  Mayoral Candidate Rev. Billy Talen, The Life After Shopping Choir, The New York City Greens and residents from neighborhoods across New York City (including the Chelsea Hotel) gathered today to show support for clean, fresh water. Rev. Billy blessed containers of New York city tap water and the souls of New York City residents were refreshed.  He also…

  • Homeless People and Allies Successfully Occupy Empty Building

    Homeless people and community allies took over a vacant building in El Barrio/East Harlem earlier today. The target was a beautiful two-story building at the corner of Madison Avenue and 116th that has been vacant for decades. For those of you who weren't able to attend today's action activist organization Picture the Homeless is holding a SLEEP-OUT…

  • Breslin Hotel Ghettoized: Will Chelsea Be Next?

    There’s an article about the Breslin Hotel in this week’s Chelsea Now.  The Breslin, you’ll remember, is, like the Chelsea, an SRO hotel that houses a lot of people in the arts.  It was taken over by developers at about the same time as the Chelsea, and their aim was the same, to evict the…

  • One of the Country’s Top Political Blogs Highlights Eviction of 75-Year-Old Resident from Chelsea Hotel

    Readers of Chelsea Hotel Blog may be familiar with DailyKos.com.  After all, it's one of the top political blogs on the web with hundreds of thousands of readers daily.  Yesterday, Daily Kos ran a story about how the current economic climate was impacting renters.  The heartless and illegal eviction of a 75-year-old man from the Chelsea Hotel was the prime example of how…

  • News Bohemians Can Use

    NYU finds that surveillance cameras do not deter crime.  The study reviewed "five years of evidence from Peter Cooper Village and Stuyvesant Town in Manhattan."  The researchers question whether the trade-offs in cost and loss of privacy are worth it. Tishman Speyer may now have to pay $200 million back to tenants (at Stuyvesant Town and Peter…

  • Nothing in Life is Free: Your Rent Can Be Raised To Pay for Repairs

    If you are one of the tenants who is considering getting apartment repairs from management,  a word to the wise: the cost of these repairs may be added to your rent.  According to the DHCR website for substantial increase of services, replacement of furnishings or equipment and improvements to your apartment, including demolition and removal, the…

  • Jane St. Hotel Tenants Take It To The Streets

    Today (Feb. 16, 2009) at 5:00 p.m. the tenants of the Jane St. Hotel will protest against their slum lords Sean Mcphearson and his sidekick Glennon "GIGI" Travis.  The Jane Street Tenants Association has extended an invitation to Chelsea Hotel tenants to join the protest.  The Jane Hotel is located at 113 Jane Street between…

  • A Hero for 2009 — The Duchess of Carnegie

    Watch the ccn video here! She's not leaving her apartment without a fight.

  • Holiday Wish List

    For the long-suffering residents of the Chelsea Hotel: the swift return of the Bard Family to a management role at the hotel; a government bailout for those of us behind on the rent and facing eviction For Chelsea Hotel minority shareholder Marlene Krauss: a summit meeting with God and Satan; eternal life and youth; dominion over…

  • Transplanted Chelseaites in Kentucky

    I meet all kinds of Chelsea Hotel people and get to hear their stories when I'm out promoting my book, Legends of the Chelsea Hotel.  I was at the Kentucky Book Fair and I met this couple who had stayed at the Chelsea back in the 70s.  The man, said he had always wanted to…