The Chelsea Hotel Becomes a New York Battleground
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#4I'm confused. The article talks about "tenants". Does this mean the Chelsea Hotel is not actually a hotel, as it has long term tenants?
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#5I'm confused. The article talks about "tenants". Does this mean the Chelsea Hotel is not actually a hotel, as it has long term tenants?
The article covers this pretty clearly, describing decades-long tenants and saying:
> Plans are underway to make the Chelsea Hotel an actual hotel again.
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#6I'm confused. The article talks about "tenants". Does this mean the Chelsea Hotel is not actually a hotel, as it has long term tenants?
The Chelsea Hotel is usually best known for having housed many famous figures over the years:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Chelsea#Notable_resident...
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#7This is largely irrelevant, but Leonard Cohen’s song “Chelsea Hotel #2” is the primary reason I find the hotel special. Every time I walk past the song pops in my head. I’d be excited to see the hotel returned to some glory, bohemian or not. It’s been under scaffolding for most of a decade it seems.
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#8It's entertaining to watch these ritzy tenants play jane bluecolors with their frequent and public complimentary lap dances from the new york times.
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#9I'm confused. The article talks about "tenants". Does this mean the Chelsea Hotel is not actually a hotel, as it has long term tenants?
The Chelsea used to be an artist's cooperative, it was a mix of long-term and short-term residents, and was infamous for being lax with rent payments, with many living there rent-free.
This medium article gives a good perspective of its past.
https://medium.com/@bagelboy/make-america-bohemian-again-de8...
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#10I'm confused. The article talks about "tenants". Does this mean the Chelsea Hotel is not actually a hotel, as it has long term tenants?
The word comes from the French hôtel, which just means hall. Historically, many "hotels" were places that housed medium-to-long-term guests, either exclusively or alongside short-term visitors. Like the Eloise books, which took place at the Plaza Hotel, or Paris’s Hôtel des Invalides, where wounded soldiers recovered.