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  • HE’S BACK

    We thought we were rid of Ethan Hawke when he moved out a few months ago.  But the creative spirit of the Chelsea has apparently sucked him back into our vortex of insanity.  He was in the hotel earlier this week, filming the movie version of his brilliant debut novel, The Hottest State.  We were…

  • Rene Ricard Goes Quack Quack Here

    Luke’s Farm Media brings us the first episode of "Uncle Rene" and gives us an inside look at life in the Hotel Chelsea.  Click here to play the video. The fabulous Rene Ricard, for those of you who are way out of the loop, starred in a couple of Warhol flicks back in the day.…

  • Good News

    Just as mysteriously as it disappeared Hiroya’s mural has been returned to its place of honor. 

  • MIA: Hiroya’s Mural

    For many years one of Hiroya’s graffiti-based paintings held a place of honor in the stairwell between the 7th and 8th floors here at the Hotel Chelsea.  If you came through the Chelsea lobby between 1997 and 2001, then you probably even met the Japanese painter. He may have even tried to sell you one…

  • Valentine’s Day at the Chelsea Hotel, 1977

         I was a senior in college, invited to New York for a long Valentine’s Day weekend by a young man a few years older than I, who lived in a small apartment on Avenue A, with the bathtub in the kitchen. Next to it hung a vintage robe, a debonair manly number in…

  • The Chelsea’s Latest Fashion Victim

    Vogue editor Sally Singer’s oldest son Malachy doesn’t seem too thrilled to be attending the Marc Jacobs show.  But at least he got to get out.  If I were in his younger brothers Oscar or Pascal’s shoes I’d be throwing a temper tantrum.  Perhaps this explains the howls that rocked the Chelsea the other night. …

  • Elefant Was In the Chelsea

    NYC alt band Elefant dropped by the Hotel Chelsea to shoot their forthcoming video "Elefant." Further footage is scheduled to be filmed at the band’s February 17 concert in Boston.

  • The Jazz- Infused Life of Herbert Gentry

    A great profile of former Hotel Chelsea Resident and painter Herbert Gentry (1919 – 2003) iappears in this week’s issue of the Hartford Courant.  Mr. Gentry lived in Paris for many years, as well as at the Hotel Chelsea.  The profile focuses mainly on Mr. Gentry’s year’s in Paris. "If Gentry’s art, which was far-better…

  • Hotel Chelsea Fashion News

    From a recent NYTimes profile of William Ivey Long.  By the time Long graduated from Yale in 1975, he had been in college and graduate school for 10 years and had no idea how to look for a job. He moved into the Chelsea Hotel to be near one of his idols, the couturier Charles…

  • Other Folks Bloggin the Chelsea

    The guy who paints in the lobby has launched a live journal page.  Maybe we can count on him for some juicy lobby gossip. Former Hotel Chelsea guest Carrie Bedsore has captured a few screen shots from the new TV series “Love Monkey.”  In the shot on the left you can see two-fisted painter Robert…