Living with Legends
Hotel Chelsea Blog
Category: Personal Accounts
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Self-consciously hip hotel designer Andre Balazs, (rhymes with mirage, persiflage) appears to be having cash flow problems. How else to explain his decision to unload half of his hotel portfolio, including New York’s QT Hotel and the Standard Hotels in Los Angeles, Hollywood, and Miami? (I guess he knows no one would want…
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I was on the Joey Reynolds show Tuesday night promoting my book, Legends of the Chelsea. It was great meeting Joey and his friend Cha Cha, who was on the Sopranos and acted in a couple of Abel Ferrara movies, in addition to owning a restaurant on Mulberry Street. Joey and Cha Cha are two…
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Writers have been expending a lot of ink lately in trying to figure out who in their right mind would want to move into one of these leaky aquariums developers keep building all over New York City. The short answer, according to Penelope Green in Sunday’s Week in Review section of the New York Times…
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Born and Drukier are really running roughshod over New York. Now they are proposing a massive 9 story glass hotel for the corner of Washington and Perry. They already have two of their ghastly towers, the Meiers buildings, nearby at 173/176 Perry Street. Additionally, they are responsible for the glass tower at 166…
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"Hey, why is the wood floor squeaking in this room I’m paying $1500.00 a night for?" "You dumbass, we designed it like that so it would seem old!" Thus does mind triumph over matter at DeNiro’s new Greenwich Hotel, and developers everywhere are paying attention. Take note that BD Hotels is DeNiro’s partner in this…
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Australian filmmaker Michael Maher, who shot a documentary about the gentrification of the Chelsea Hotel and Chelsea neighborhood for his "Postcards from New York" series, is back in action again, having set in sights on another threatened New York institution, Coney Island. In case you haven’t heard, what’s happening out there, is that developers are…
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The kid who was the subject of Monday’s post has responded: i was the kid and here’s the real story everyone that kids say who the "heck was that person" a lot so i asked the front desk that because i like to know empoyees names so i can call them that and glennon pops…
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Okay, we confess: we’re a corporate blog, bought and paid for by the owners of the Chelsea Hotel. That’s why, when Stanley was in charge, we harped about roaches and fires and junkies in the bathrooms. Then, when David Elder and Marlene Krauss staged their coup, we quickly switched our alliance, lauding our new overlord…
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In Sunday’s Daily News there’s an article about a woman, Karen Leiberman, whose building on West 85th Street is being torn down around her. The case is eerily similar to what has been happening to Daniel Peckham in his Chelsea apartment for the past two years. Both cases result from a landlord using a loophole…
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We knew from the get-go that the new person in the transient room must be pretty savvy about the Hotel. She put the “do not disturb” sign on her door the minute she checked in and didn’t take it down until she left to return to New Mexico. Now, on top of that, she sends…
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