“Manager” Throws Wet Blanket Over Personal Freedom of Chelsea Hotel Residents & Guests

One of our fellow Bohemians recently alerted us that “manager” Glennon Travis called the police because he imagined that someone was smoking pot in the hallway. Reportedly, the cops showed up but didn’t consider the situation life threatening and left without doing anything. (I hope they expressed their annoyance to Glennon for wasting their time.)

With all of the responsibilities involved in running a large hotel, our question is: Doesn’t Glennon have anything better to do than hassle people? We also hear that he's got time to patrol the halls looking for unattended animals.  If Glennon wants to put on his Sherlock Holmes hat (better skip the pipe), maybe he can solve the mystery of who’s been swiping pieces of our famous staircase.

Glennon’s Gestapo tactics are an outrage, to say the least, since the Chelsea has always been a bastion of the live-and-let-live attitude. People come from around the world to breathe the Chelsea’s famous “air” of freedom. I wonder how beach bum Glennon would like it if we took his margaritas away from him?   If we find out where you can purchase that tee-shirt, we'll let you know. You may be able to add other slogans such as "Animal Patrol" or "Why Does Everybody Hate Me?" Ed Hamilton

Comments

[Old & Crappy]

I'm very concerned about what will happen when we really need a cop. They'll think it's Glennon crying wolfe.

[Old & Crappy]

Be sure to watch the reality show being filmed in Suite 303 when it airs. Glennon tried to have the cops shut it down!

[Sherill]

By way of contrast, this is what Stanley Bard had to say about a Chelsea Hotel resident (Abbie Hoffman) who was arrested for selling cocaine and skipped bail:

"Before he left, he paid some money. He was a very honest person. I felt very badly for him. To think of someone having to go underground and splitting from his wife and baby is a terrible ordeal."

[LP]

Glennon is a baby fascist.

[Blankgen78]

When do the halls not smell like pot? What kind of "Euro-Trash Beach Bum" would rat out a little doob smoking? I talked to Glennon two months ago. (I don't remember what upset me. I just know I read it here and felt I had to mouth off)I remember him saying not to worry about Stanley "he's making more money now" I told him then he missed the point. I wish I had taped the call.

[jill]

Try cafepress.com to get those T shirts made.

[The Ghosts]

Oh my, a baby fascist indeed. A whiff of cannabis in the Chelsea Hotel? And he calls the police? Apparently he doesn't know that the spirits of the chelsea hotel sometimes communicate not with words but with scents. What he smelled was a conversation.

[Adolf Elizabeth Hitler]

The final solution is upon us- stormtroopers in the halls will control those terrifying feral cats and make sure no pot smoking hippies dare cross the threshhold of the new regime. Heil Beachbum!

i dont live in the building, but have been following what has been going on via this site. While i think what bd is doing is a shame, and i might go as far as to say a crime against the arts, i would be very careful when comparing them to nazis. they may be imposing their views on the residents, but i have not heard of a single resident they have killed, nor a single book they have burned, and residents are not made to wear a C on their lapel so everyone can tell them from the temporary.
again not that i dont sympathies with your plight, but as artist i think you should be more sensitive when choosing your words

[The Blissstones]

The Blisstones

Damn, how things have changed! When I shot my music video a couple years back and used the staircase, it was still in tact. Oh how I would love to do it again guerilla style and terrorize that nazi manager by smoking pot on the balcony of the room we shot in......Laura Fay

Posted by The Blisstones on Wednesday, December 05, 2007 at 9:44 PM
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The most disturbing part of this story is that the halfwit called the cops and singled out a tenant who wasn't, the officers determined, smoking weed in the hallway. He just made it up and it shows that BD & their agents will say and do anything to have their way inside the hotel. Heck they even called the cops on Stanley, although its doubtful they tried pinning a drug charge on him. BTW, Good to see you this morning Stanley! We need you back and how

Wait. They called the cops on Stanley????

They sure did, and then for days afterward there were undercover "guards" posted in the lobby -- off duty cops w/ 6$ haircuts and white socks. You know, to make sure Stanley didn't sneak thru in the middle of the night and interfere with BD's grand schemes

[just me]

what a bunch of assholes. They called the cops on Stanley. Unfuckingbelievable. They have no shame or sense of human decency.

[Miss H]

Really. After all Stanley has done for the arts, the residents, the hotel and the investors they called the cops on him? Ruthless.

That is not why there were off-duty/undercover cops/security people in the lobby for a while. One of them told me directly that they were there to see IF security was needed on a 24hr basis. If they just wanted to keep Stanley out, they wouldn't have only been there for less than a week. How people love to twist the truth when it suits them.

There are a LOT of details that we, as residents, guests, and fans of the hotel do not know about the management situation (past and present- whether we want to believe we do or not) but there's clearly a lack of respect on BOTH sides. The fact that the Bards have cultivated this hotel as a haven for the arts (not just artists, but ART in general) should be respected by new management, even if they don't respect the Bards' management "style."

I will admit, however, most of the new staff who work here are pretty cool people. The bellmen, front desk clerks and operators...so far, so good. And no, we're not referring to Glennon and Bernstein though we've yet to have any REAL contact with them.

OH! Is that not why the cops were in the lobby?

How (no name) people love to believe everything they're told because they don't know any better. As if 56 or so years of Bard as manager wouldn't have already determined whether security was needed in the lobby. A real hotbed of criminal activity, the lobby...

[LP]

Ah, the PR Flack is back. The rest of BD employees may be inoffensive, or even bland, or nice, but cool? No, Stanley's staff are cool. Only a dweeb who once dreamed of an IRS career would think BD hotels is in any respect "cool."