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Photojournalist Catherine Leroy has died in Santa Monica, California, following a battle with lung cancer. She was 60. Leroy was best known for her photographs of the Vietnam War.  Her photographs are featured in "Under Fire: Images from Vietnam," which was published earlier this year.  Also known for her fashion sense, in recent years Leroy…

Welcome New York Times readers.  Here’s Ed Hamilton’s "Slice of Life," party recap. If you ever plan on entertaining a bunch of bohemians, skip the crudites and order more sushi.  We’re still trying to finish off all of those damn vegetables.  The blog’s first-anniversary party was held in Thomas Wolfe’s old room, now occupied by…

Reminder — We’ve never won an award before for anything and it’s going to stay that way unless you cast a vote. Living with Legends: Hotel Chelsea blog has made the final cut in two categories (World’s Best Urban Arts Blog and Best New York Blog ) in the 2005 Urban Blogging Awards competition.  Voting…

A reader and former resident writes to ask if I knew that this notorious meeting in labor union history had occurred at the Hotel Chelsea as indicated by a recent article. “…John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers, launched his famous right jab straight across the chops of Big Bill Hutcheson, President of…

Blogchelsea calls us a rich source for stories. CitySpecific reports that we seek to be a repository for all things artistic and notable about the people of the Chelsea Hotel/Hotel Chelsea. Curbed asks the penetrating question, are we the new Lower East Side of blogging?  At least he didn’t call us the new Williamsburg of…

Two Pew Internet surveys conducted in early 2005 show that 16% of U.S. adults (32 million) are blog readers.  The blogger audience now commands respect, says the current study. It stands at 20% of the newspaper audience and 40% of the talk radio audience. Meanwhile, 6% of the entire U.S. adult population has created a…

Patti Smith divulges the origins of her song "Gloria," in a recent interview with Simon Reynolds. Gloria, says Smith, it’s a song about her sister Linda, a sort of morbid fantasy rooted in remorse: the pair, rooming together in the Chelsea Hotel, quarrelled, and Linda disappeared, causing Patti much anguish. Written in 1971, the verses…

How can you confirm that someone actually lived in the Chelsea?  Collected oral histories and archival sources are a good starting point.  You Must Remember This: An Oral History of Manhattan from the 1890s to World War II is both a fascinating book to read and a well documented resource. You Must Remember This is…