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Published: August 3, 2007, 11:05 am

- enlarged here) says the hotel has the recipients of the letter down as checking out on August 13th. While it invites them to stop by the front desk to confirm, it seems more like a scaremongering tactic to free up some rooms over, say, a "friendly reminder" (what hotel insinuates a person check out early?). The Hotel Chelsea Blog urges

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Andr Checks In?

Published: August 22, 2007, 3:51 pm

Tags: Hotel Chelsea

declared more love for the Hotel Chelsea and more fear about the changes there being the final nail in the coffin of "old New York," The Observer suspects his exes ex of helping to hold the hammer. Earlier this summer hotel developer Andr Balazs was spotted in the lobby of the hotel once it was under management of his pals Richard Born and

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The Hotel Chelsea's Suite 303

Published: September 12, 2007, 4:10 pm

Tags: Hotel Chelsea

Observer revisits The Hotel Chelsea in a piece about a long-time resident who runs a salon out of the building. April Barton cuts hair out of Suite 303 in a salon that fits right in at the legendary building, and the cachet of running her business there isn't something she necessarily wants to give up. Recently, however, new management

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Dear Hotel Chelsea Resident

Published: September 26, 2007, 12:32 pm

Tags: Hotel Chelsea

sent out to residents of the Hotel Chelsea asking them to clean up and not leave their personal belongings around. The hotel has long had a homey, lived-in feeling and its unofficial blog says "Some residents have turned the space outside their doors into pleasant little sitting rooms or galleries." Changing this is a definite step in the wrong

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Another New Hip Hotel, Another Tenant Rebellion

Published: December 6, 2007, 10:34 am

Tags: Real Estate, Ace Hotel, Chelsea Hotel, Hotel Breslin, Retail

of the Spotted Pig. A Chelsea Now article from August provides the seedy backstory -- which sounds an awful lot like what's happening at other resident-hotels, like the Chelsea. Rent-stabilized tenants started noticing "investor-types" in suits checking out empty rooms last spring. Then, "the front desk declared that the

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Cinematical's Friday Night Double Feature: For Love of the Chelsea Hotel

Published: February 29, 2008, 4:02 pm

Tags: Chelsea Hotel, Chelsea Walls, Chelseahotel, Chelseawalls

Abel Ferrara's upcoming film Chelsea on the Rocks, I give you two that came before it -- first, the mellow story of Ethan Hawke's Chelsea Walls, and then the energized fury that was Sid & Nancy. Since this double feature is as much about the place as it is the work that came out of it, I'm adding a special intermission of Chelsea fare. Sit

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Singing the Polish Blues in Chelsea

Published: April 9, 2008, 10:13 am