Hello from Louisville Kentucky. I'm the artist who didn't give my painting to Stanley Bard.  I see you have included this tidbit in your blog. I am proud to be a part of it. We talked before your reading at Ear X- Tacy last Thursday. I am really enjoying your excellent book 'Legends of the Chelsea…

Apparently Bellevue Hospital and the Chelsea Hotel have shared a number of former inmates: Eugene O’Neill, Edie Sedgwick, Charles Jackson, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and of course Sid Vicious.  We’ve always said that the Chelsea is the last stop before the nuthouse and a recent article in New York Magazine quips that “ Bellevue is the…

We don't know if this refrigerator is coming or going, but it looks better than the one in our apartment.      

Listen to Dave Van Tieghem as he literally plays the Chelsea Hotel. We hope Andrew Tilley doesn’t get after him for beatin up the furniture though he probably needs to buy some of that new boutique furniture for the room anyway. At the end of the video it seems like a resident must be knocking…

In Scott Stiffler’s Chelsea Now article about Andrew Tilley’s recent posting of eviction notices, Tilley is given the pull-quote to chastise us clueless Bohemians thusly: “It’s really quite simple: you live somewhere, you have to pay rent.”    Wow, I'm so glad he cleared that up.  When I wrote about the matter a couple of weeks however,…

In a piece shot at the Chelsea Hotel by Anton Perich in 1977, one of the world's best dress maker Charles James, showcases some of his most famous gowns on model Matuschka.

Children all over America raised their tiny voices in a shrill cry of joy recently, upon learning that Marlene Krauss had resigned as director and chairman of Woonsocket-based Summer Infant, a  company that designs, markets and distributes “health, safety and wellness” products for children.  Summer Infant, as reported on this blog, had been implicated in a…

As a former guest reminds us, sometimes the Chelsea ’s famous spirit of tolerance can be taken a bit too far:         I stayed in the Chelsea Hotel for a week  back in the eighties and what I saw did not make me eager to come back.  Of course the place was a wreck and…

 Surprise!  Our old buddy Glennon Travis has finally resurfaced from the muck.  After a few months of selling golf clubs at a country club, Glennon now has a job at the old Riverview Hotel at the corner of West Street and Jane Street in the village.  The St. Louis beach bum thought he had hit…

The Swordsman Beware tourists, this could happen to you on your first night at the Chelsea. https://legends.typepad.com/theswordsman601.mov Glass Houses More than 39 glass houses are set to go up along the High Line, but the biggest one of all is rearing its head on 6th Avenue at 24th Street. https://legends.typepad.com/GlassHouses5-17.mov Sid’s Room Watch what happens…