Living with Legends
Hotel Chelsea Blog
Category: Personal Accounts
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The Hotel Chelsea lobby is decorated for the holidays with a beautiful christmas tree and a lovely menorah. However, we don’t have pictures of either to show you. Instead we have a crappy picture of one of the tree ornaments. The ornament is a fake black and white Polaroid of Bob Dylan when he wore…
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Only a few days left to vote. The last time I checked, we were in third place in the World’s Best Urban Arts Blog category. The two blogs leading the voting are Slavs of New York and We Make Money Not Art.
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The Villager has a snappy profile of Chelsea Hotel resident Norman Gosney and his famous Big Night Out. Head to Scenic located in the East Village the last Thursday of each month to catch acts such as: There is Bunny Love who likes all things wet — she bathes with soapy water onstage wearing two…
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Lorenzo captured Arthur Weinstein’s artwork. Lorenzo has more Chelsea Hotel photos in his Flickr group. Lobby and room pics courtesy of this couple who visited the Hotel Chelsea in October. If you look closely you’ll notice an original Hiroya painting hanging on the wall of 813. Finally, a motherlode of photos at BlueHour’s Flickr page…
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The Chelsea Hotel is one of 10 hotels featured in an article in the New York Times about budget hotels in New York City. Budget is defined as being in the $250.00 per night or less range. Good luck getting the suite pictured in the article for less than $250.00 per night. There is one…
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We receive a lot of e-mails around here so I’ve decided not to keep them all to myself. Some of them are worth sharing. A week ago I ran a post about the French Philosopher Baudrillard and his relationship to the Chelsea. Well, that post inspired some critical thinking in one of our readers. Here…
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We’ve never won an award before for anything. Here’s our big chance. Living with Legends: Hotel Chelsea blog has made the final cut in two categories (World’s Best Urban Arts Blog and Best New York Blog ) in the 2005 Urban Blogging Awards competition. Voting continues through December 26th.
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If you find yourself home sick for the Hotel Chelsea while in Toyoko or Copenhagen you have options. Not to be outdone by Toyoko, which already hosts the Chelsea Hotel club, Copenhagen has recently launched a Hotel Chelsea nightclub.
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A while ago, Vaspers the Grate (Former Hotel Chelsea resident Steven Streight) announced his 7 blogs in 7 days project. In real life, Steven Streight is a web usability expert, so I was slightly nervous when Steven announced that Living with Legends was on his 7 blogs list. Steven just posted his results and I…
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