Living with Legends
Hotel Chelsea Blog
Category: Personal Accounts
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Neighbor/ blogger Crazy Fingers really wants to attend the sold out Phil Lesh show at SOB tonight or tomorrow night. Can anybody help? Afterall, Crazy Fingers provides a pointer to Phil Lesh’s recollections of a Grateful Dead show here at the Hotel Chelsea.
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Some people think the new Carlos Zapata building on 23rd St. looks like a cockroach, and I can kind of see that: those look sort of like wing casings folded down on top. But what it really reminds me of is the Pope’s hat. I know there must be a word for that, and I…
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From Lori Braun’s website, "Chelsa Hotel where the guy from the Sex Pistals killed himself. Taken by Brian Moss of shemuscle.com I’m such a rocker!" If you want to know more, she’s got a blog. Besides the bizarre spelling, there is a slight mistake in her sentence above. Does anyone care to hazard a guess? …
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Please extend a warm welcome to Jonny Where. Maybe he’ll hang out and play his guitar for us in the lobby. And if the spoil sports at the desk object, he can play it in the halls. Long live Rock and Roll — Drunk & Beyond! Hi, I enjoy your blog. We will be staying…
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Since the Gotham Comedy Club opened we at the Chelsea Hotel have had to put up with vans and tractor trailers lined up from one end of the street to the other, blocking us in and cutting off our light and air. But what the hell — we’re used to it from the film crews…
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When I read the Voice article about Peckham on October 3, I was so outraged that I knew I had to do something. The result can be found in this week’s Chelsea Now. Going into the job, I figured that Peckham would be kind of a crank and a nut job—because how else to…
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The sinister doorway undertaker got to our poor portal while we were out of town. Other residents have been surprised to come home and find their previously cherry doors buried beneath a heavy coat of dreary, depressing black paint. Lately, however, some of the hotel’s residents have begun to fight back against this virulent Black…
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Because photographer Keith Green found the hotel to be a peaceful retreat in 1988, he vowed to return. And return he did—to photograph Dee Dee Ramone for his book jacket (Chelsea Horror Hotel) and to witness the tail end of superstar Viva’s eviction: During the latter part of the 1980s, I worked as a photo…
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Check out this review of the Chelsea in The Connected Traveler. According to the author, Russ Johnson, the Chelsea is "more Crackhaus than Bauhaus" and it apparently reminds him of a "Soviet era mental ward." Fortunately, in the video interview, our beloved benefactor steps up to the plate to defend our building’s honor, correctly pointing…
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The Penthouse at the old McBurney Y building is still on the market and has been price-chopped again! (The penthouse used to house the YMCA gymnasium which was home to one of New York’s longest running fencing programs, among other things. You’ll recall that the private rooftop deck was where the Y used to hold…
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