Chelsea Hotel selges

Wall Street Journal skriver: The Chelsea's 15 shareholders, led by three Hungarian families who bought the 12-story red-brick building in 1946, are selling the property after concluding that the task of modernizing the hotel and apartment building was too challenging, one owner said. A buyer also would likely end the Chelsea's tradition of giving artists breaks on payment schedules to assist their careers.

The Observer kommenterer: Maybe the secret will be keeping the artists, instead of kicking them out. And people will pay extra for that "authentic" experience.

“This took 50 years of nurturing and development,” Mr. Bard said. “Everyone respected it - the cultural community, the people living there. That’s hard to create.”


Et bilde jeg tok i en av hotellgangene. Jeg bodde et par dager på hotellet i 2008, her er to bloggposter fra den gangen:

Denne om Stanley Bard som drev Chelsea Hotel i 50 år og som ble satt til side av styret noen måneder før jeg overnattet der, og en med kulturhistorie fra hotellet som f.eks dette sitatet fra John Cale: Bob Dylan got married during his three-year stay in the Chelsea Hotel from 1961-64, and his first child Jesse was born there.

Leonard Cohen, however, preferred to write 'Chelsea Hotel No 2', a song commemorating fellatio with Janis Joplin in room 104, when he lived there in the 1970s. En indiskresjon han senere beklaget.


Et fotografi jeg fant på nettet, det var protester i 2008 da Stanley Bard ble fjernet. Noen av bildene jeg tok på hotellet, se et par rader nedover bare, det er noen andre New York-bilder over.


Trappene var så fine.