The drama at the Hotel Chelsea has been dragging on for a long time. It was four years ago that we visited the legendary hotel to get a tour from Stanley Bard, the longtime manager who was getting ousted at the time by some new blood. Since then there have been new faces at the helm, deals gone sour, and rumors a-plenty. The latest comes from two residents who run the Living With Legends blog from inside their apartment there—today they write, "staff members have been told to stop taking reservations after August 2nd. So if you want to spend one more night at the Chelsea Hotel before it closes, now is your last chance." We called the reservation line only to be met with a full voicemail box—but it does seem like making a reservation online for future dates still works.
As The Hotel Chelsea Changes, Residents Tell Us "Now Is Your Last Chance" To Stay There
Roof Raff Cause Rift In Williamsburg Building
This is why you can't have anything nice, Williamsburg. Seems the residents at 132 North 5th Street (at the corner of Bedford) are all doing their part in keeping the common roof space a catastrophic mess. An inside source tells us emails are frequently sent from building management, which it seems someone is posting on this blog. And now residents have turned on each other! Offline accusations (read: the flyer after the jump) were posted on every floor of the building after a party this weekend.
Hotel Chelsea Ousts Manager Glennon Travis
The residents of the Hotel Chelsea give a fly-on-the-wall report that "new" manager Glennon Travis is on his way out. Travis took over as part of the "new management" team that replaced long time manager Stanley Bard last year. Here's the good word:
We’ve heard from multiple sources that today is Director of Operations Glennon Travis’s last day at the Chelsea Hotel. In his brief tenure here at the hotel, Glennon has managed to alienate nearly everyone he has come into contact with: residents sane and otherwise, guests, employees, union reps, reporters, you name it. His habitually obnoxious and abusive rejoinders to anything from mere pleasantries to valid questions by concerned residents, have led us to speculate on this blog that BD Hotels may be using him as a kind of one-man harassment crew to drive out the rent-stabilized tenants and union employees.It's unlikely BD Hotels will reinstate Bard in his rightful position, but the Chelsea bloggers speculate that BD have driven the landmark hotel so far into the ground that even board member Marlene Krauss has taken note. Could this be the end of their evil reign?
What's Going on at The Hotel Chelsea?
For nearly a year now the Hotel Chelsea residents have been living under the new management of BD Hotels -- and not one has been happy about it. Last summer we checked in with long time manager Stanley Bard (who BD ousted from his position) as well as some of those who call the hotel home...and spirits were low all around.
2 Vs. F, C Vs. 5: Subways to be Managed by Line
The New York City Transit Authority, the MTA division that oversees the subways and buses, will be now split up the management of the subway lines and instead assign a manager to deal with a line or a number of lines. The NY Times spoke to NYC Transit president Howard Roberts Jr.:The goal, Mr. Roberts said, is to have 24 subway lines operating in many ways as 24 self-contained railroads. (The number may vary,...
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