Now that this blog has more than three readers, we need a columnist to respond to reader's questions. Are any of you folks who are sitting around in the lobby using the free wifi interested in the gig? I didn’t think so, but if you change your mind, let me know.
How do the apartments work at the Chelsea? do I walk in and ask the front desk if there are apartments available for rent? Or is there a management company? Despite the elevator full of tourists and screechy celebrity-chasers, it sounds like a fun place to live. Cheers, Evan
Stanley, this one's for you: "At the Chelsea Hotel, renting is equivalent to a tenured position at an Ivy League college, a kind of golden (spangled?) handcuff. Stanley Bard, the managing director since the 1960's of this 19th-century grande dame handpicks his tenants like a club impresario at the velvet rope. "I want them to be here," he said, "I want them to stay forever."
"There is no waiting list, he said, "but we go through great expense and detail to decide whether someone would be good for the hotel." (Source: NYTimes, June 2005)
So, Evan, bring examples of your art, your transcripts, lots of cash and let us know what happens.
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