Living with Legends
Hotel Chelsea Blog
Category: Personal Accounts
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State Senator Tom Duane, Assemblymember Brian Kavanagh, Council member Dan Garodnick, Congressmember Carolyn Maloney and other officials today announced legislation they will be introducing requiring landlords to pay attorney’s fees and/or expenses incurred by tenants wrongly accused of breaking rent-stabilization regulations. In cases where a landlord if found to have knowingly served a notice containing…
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Sadly, Johnny, our four-footed friend and neighbor at the Chelsea Hotel passed away yesterday. Johnny, who, in true Chelsea gender-bending fashion, was a female. She was 11 years-old, ancient for a Newfoundland. Johnny was a true Chelsea institution, and we will miss her intoxicating aroma in the elevator, as well as her immovable carpet-like presence…
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Well ain’t that a bitch. It seems that BD, showing total disrespect for the landmarks commission in making the top story of their Greenwich Hotel too big and visible from the street, may now have to remove the offending structure from their building and start again. And to add insult to injury, NY Times food…
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As proprietors of the Chelsea Hotel blog, people call us from near and far with various odd requests related to the hotel. One woman was writing a book on Valerie Solanis and asked if we had any choice tidbits (we did), while some Japaneses documentarians wanted to know about an obscure recording that Harry Smith…
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Be sure to check out Chris Shott’s piece in The New York Observer about BD’s shameful attempt to evict a dying man, Jann Paxton. So what about it Marlene? Is it so important to win your war against Stanley Bard that you’re willing to abandon ever last shred of common decency? We think that, as…
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BD Hotels sued Arthur Nash in housing court, alleging that his apartment was not rent stabilized. But last week, when the judge asked BD to provide evidence to that effect, they couldn’t do it, and didn’t even try. Arthur, on the other hand, had a letter wherein BD admitted that another Chelsea Hotel resident was rent…
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Artie Nash has won his case against BD’s lawyers! Guess those banners won’t be going anywhere after all. We’ll post an interview with Artie a little later.
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Yes, look at me now, I’m a Rock Star! Bobby DeNiro is my Best Friend. Go to hell Chelsea losers. You deadbeats can kiss my ass! (Gold ball brought to you by Tax Free Liberty Bonds) Also, all you millions of bloggers out there may want to know that we’ll automatically cancel your reservation if…
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