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posted on
March 13th, 2009
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Living with Legends: Hotel Chelsea Blog
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Does Chelsea Hotel Minority Shareholder David Elder Really Have 27 Friends on Facebook?

It's been a long time since we've had a Chelsea Hotel "manager" take advantage of the Internet's social networking opportunities. Who can forget our favorite St. Louis Beach Bum Glennon T ...

posted on
March 12th, 2009
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Living with Legends: Hotel Chelsea Blog
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Is Dr. Marlene Krauss, Harvard MBA, PlD., Planning to Evict Chelsea Moving?

Multiple sources confirm that Chief of Engineering Larry Mc"Laugh"lin is telling Chelsea Hotel employees that plans are already in the works to evict Chelsea Moving & Storage. If this ...

posted on
March 11th, 2009
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Living with Legends: Hotel Chelsea Blog
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New York

Official Chelsea Hotel Flower, Philosopher and Motto

Sherill Tippins is hard at working putting the finishing touches on her forthcoming history of the Chelsea Hotel. Sherill writes to inform us that she has unearthed potential candidates for an offi ...

posted on
March 10th, 2009
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Living with Legends: Hotel Chelsea Blog
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New York

Who Confused "Tourists" with "Terrorists"?

Thank goodness it's not often that we receive e-mails with the subject line "MACHINE GUNS?????" Is this what new management considers the red carpet treatment? We hope not. Thanks to Arti ...

posted on
March 10th, 2009
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Living with Legends: Hotel Chelsea Blog
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New York

Roll Your Eyes All You Like, Soon The Bards Will Return As Will The Mighty Stef

It must be getting close to St. Patricks Day, as we met these Irish rockers in the lobby over the weekend. Here's what they had to say about their stay at the Chelsea. Hey Ed, Ciaran Here ( I met.. ...

posted on
March 9th, 2009
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Living with Legends: Hotel Chelsea Blog
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New York

History of Activism at the Chelsea: Pt. 4: Painter John Sloan -- Fought for Change with the Socialist Party, the IWW, and the AC

Historian Sherill Tippins, author of the upcoming Dream Palace, a history of the Chelsea Hotel, continues her series on the lives and struggles of the Chelsea's great social activists with a portra ...

posted on
March 7th, 2009
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Living with Legends: Hotel Chelsea Blog
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New York

News Bohemians Can Use

NYU finds that surveillance cameras do not deter crime. The study reviewed "five years of evidence from Peter Cooper Village and Stuyvesant Town in Manhattan." The researchers question wh ...

posted on
March 6th, 2009
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Living with Legends: Hotel Chelsea Blog
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Stanley Bard Hard at Work at the Chelsea Hotel

Some things never change. Here's Jerry Weinstein in 1981 looking the same as ever. Unfortunately, though, some things do change. In this nine minute clip from the 1981 BBC Arena documentary, Chelse ...

posted on
March 5th, 2009
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Living with Legends: Hotel Chelsea Blog
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New York

Yeah, and His Hair Sucks Too!

(Image via New York Magazine, February 16, 2009, p. 13)

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posted on
March 4th, 2009
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Living with Legends: Hotel Chelsea Blog
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New York

The Noble Pedigree of Queen Marlene, MD, Pld., Harvard MBA, and All Things Great and Glorious That You Wish You Were But Will Ne

Our sovereign ruler, Mistress Marlene Krauss, was born on January 17, 1941, in New York City. Consulting an old Farmer’s almanac, Legends has learned that, on that exact date, the Earth underwent ...