It's entertaining to watch these ritzy tenants play jane bluecolors with their frequent and public complimentary lap dances from the new york times.
ritzy tenants lol, you’ve obviously never been inside the Chelsea or met its actual tenants.
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#12It's entertaining to watch these ritzy tenants play jane bluecolors with their frequent and public complimentary lap dances from the new york times.
ritzy tenants lol, you’ve obviously never been inside the Chelsea or met its actual tenants.
I have insider knowledge of the hotel and its tenants. The Chelsea tenants are firmly wealthier beyond the American middle class.
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
ritzy tenants lol, you’ve obviously never been inside the Chelsea or met its actual tenants.
I have insider knowledge of the hotel and its tenants. The Chelsea tenants are firmly wealthier beyond the American middle class.
That's not hard to believe.
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
ritzy tenants lol, you’ve obviously never been inside the Chelsea or met its actual tenants.
I have insider knowledge of the hotel and its tenants. The Chelsea tenants are firmly wealthier beyond the American middle class.
>I have insider knowledge of the hotel and its tenants.
Perhaps you would care to elaborate, then, rather than simply being snarky?
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#15Patti Smith's memoir "Just Kids" has terrific detail about daily life in the Chelsea Hotel in the 1960s-70s.
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#16This 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.
One of the things I think is special about NYC is the degree to which its physical places have become a part of the wider American culture.
From Central Park to the 59th Street Bridge to the Empire State Building to Macy's, I probably knew more places in New York when I first moved there than I could name in my own home-town. Part of that is the relative sizes, but New York has a cultural footprint beyond other large cities like Chicago or LA.
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#18I'm honored to have been exposed to some of the hotel's history and its famous tenants through a relative who was part of the scene in the 90s. Truly an iconic place!
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#19I'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.
IIRC hotel and hospital have the same roots, which makes the term "hospitality" much less confusing.
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#20This 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.
One of the things I think is special about NYC is the degree to which its physical places have become a part of the wider American culture. From Central Park to the 59th Street Bridge to the Empire State Building to Macy's, I probably knew more places in New York when I first moved there than I could name in my own home-town. Part of that is the relative sizes, but New York has a cultural footprint beyond other large…
Being on the top of the Empire State Building with my uncle who absolutely loves NYC and having him just point out so much famous stuff is a great memory. Just history as far as the eye can see.