There’s a new hotel on the horizon and it seems like the perfect place for Glennon Travis to continue his hotel management career now that he has gained some valuable experience here at the Chelsea.  They’re already touting the fact that Edie Sedgwick was a former guest!

BD hotels continue to slash the room rates at the Chelsea.  We hear that the Hampton Inn in Times Square is currently the only place with lower rates than the Chelsea. Meanwhile, minority shareholder Marlene Krauss’s penthouse is still on the market at its original asking price of $4.7 million.  No price chopping for Marlene. …

38.9 million in tax-free Liberty Bonds: that’s what we’re giving Robert DeNiro and Ira Drukier for the privilege of looking up at their new luxury hotel from the street.  I was under the impression that these Liberty Bonds were for rebuilding ground zero – rather than for screwing up Tribeca.  According to DeNiro, the Greenwich…

Last week the city council passed a bill making it possible for tenants to sue landlords for harassment in Housing Court.  Great, I thought, at least it’s a step in the right direction – and I didn’t bother to think about it further.  But then I ran into Dan Peckham, “NYC Real Estate Legend” on…

Could it be part of Born and Drukier’s diabolical plot to deprive us all of the last shreds of our already tenuous sanity?  The cars rattle by, one by one, like fully-loaded freight cars over a rickety old railroad bridge.  Minute-by-minute, hour-by-hour, the cars roll by, clackety clackety clack over the steel plates as my…

Arguments were heard Friday (2/15/08) in Landlord Larry Tauber’s appellate court case against tenant Daniel Peckham.  Tauber’s lawyer came out first thing and started bitching about how her client had to hold up his construction plans just because of this one tenant, but the judges quickly silenced her, directing her to focus on the issue…

At last this blogging is starting to pay off!  We arrived home the other day to find yet another suspicious package awaiting us at the front desk.  (The last one was an origami unicorn laced in anthrax!)  But we could see into this one so we weren’t too worried. It contained some delicious New Orleans…

A few weeks ago we received a suspicious package at the Chelsea.  A large envelope with no return address, we opened it cautiously.  Inside was a silver origami unicorn encased in a plastic box.  “Undo me” the label demanded.  No way, we said, figuring it was probably a stink bomb of some sort, at best,…

As if the hostile takeover of the Chelsea weren’t bad enough, now developers are going after another monument of the counterculture, this time the birthplace of Hip-Hop, 1520 Sedgwick Ave. on the outskirts of the Bronx, where D.J. Kool Herc spun records back in the early 70s.  (NYT, Cityrooms Blog, "Tenants Might Buy Birthplace of…

This week’s Chelsea Now has articles on two huge new destruction/construction projects.  But while reading the articles I couldn’t help noticing that neither of the projects seems to make any sense from anything but a development-at-all-costs perspective.  In the first, the proposed new St. Vincent’s complex in Greenwich Village, two huge buildings will be torn…