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  • The Duchess of Warhol: The Estate of Brigid Berlin

    If you are a fan of pugs, and a fan of Chelsea Hotel characters, Wednesday’s auction of items from the Brigid Berlin estate will ring all of your bells!  Check out the pug portraits. A couple of Billy Name monographs might be more to your liking. Or maybe buy a music book or two. The…

  • Patti Smith Sings for Chelsea Hotel Developer Joseph Chetrit

    The Bard family has been good to Patti Smith, helping her out at two difficult times in her life.  The first time, in the late sixties when she was a struggling, unknown poet, Stanley Bard gave her and her friend Robert Mappelthorpe a place to stay so they could get out of the drug and…

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  • Lance Loud at the Chelsea Hotel: From the Original PBS Series, An American Family

    http://www-tc.pbs.org/video/media/swf/PBSPlayer.swf Watch the full episode. See more THIRTEEN Specials. Pat Loud visits her son Lance Loud at the Chelsea Hotel. Check out Warhol Superstar Holly Woodlawn who appears to be suprised by the whole production.

  • Dee Dee Ramone Contacts Fan From Rock-n-Roll Heaven

    We found this paint ing and the accompanying note in the stairwell near Hiroya's "DE DE" painting.  Looks like the faithful punk rockers are still flocking to the Chelsea.  It also seems that Tara's dark pilgrimage was rewarded with a message from beyond. This is the first Dee Dee spirit story that has come our…

  • “Who Killed Nancy?” Makes Its U.S. Debut

    Alan G. Parker's movie Who Killed Nancy? is now showing at the Cinema Village on West 12th Street. We Wonder if Michael, one of the possible suspects identified in the movie, made it to the opening?  After all, he may still be living here at the Chelsea Hotel.  You can read the reviews here: New York Times,…

  • Chelsea Clinton Named After Lenoard Cohen’s “Chelsea Hotel”

    Well the New York Observer comes through with the truth about Chelsea Clinton's name: "The wedding will take place in Rhinebeck, New York, which is part of Dutchess county, a dutchess being just what I would be if America had a proper class system. Also, Rhinebeck is the birthplace of Rufus Wainwright, which reminds me…

  • Love Kills: The Sequel

    Kelly Padrick, a NYC singer/songwriter recently filmed a video at the Chelsea Hotel entitled Hello My Love.  According to Padrick, " ….. it's a video based on sex and murder (naturally) :)"  Well, sounds like just another day at the Chelsea Hotel.  

  • Thomas Wolfe Suite Now Available for Steamy Video Shoots

    How’s this for proof that Chelsea Hotel minority shareholder Marlene Krauss has finally done as she said she was going to do and activate the historic spaces of the Chelsea Hotel. Check out this video that was shot in Thomas Wolfe’s suite. You’ll notice former tenant/photographer Julia Calfee’s photograph hanging on the wall. And, it…

  • Even Taylor Momsen Wants to Die at the Chelsea Hotel

    This video was filmed, at least partially (they had to use another room for the balcony scenes), in Room 822 of the Chelsea Hotel, the same room where Madonna shot her famous Sex book. I actually saw Taylor standing outside the room during a lull in the shooting, though of course I didn’t recognize her…