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text: Barbara Mürdter
was really only a matter of time, in view of urban development in Manhattan: After the closure of the CBGB because of massive rent increases in October 2006 it is now the Chelsea Hotel to the collar. On 18 June, the now 73 year old Stanley Bard from the Management been pushed. In 1955 he took over the hotel that his father - had bought in the 40s - with two partners. He led a family that was meant to continue his son David. The heirs of the co-owners established a requirement that for him in the management company DB Hotels is used, the reader already has a few hotels in Manhattan to date - but the zeitgeist that has little to do with what represents the legendary hotel.
This had boasts some decades famous writers, musicians and artists, often as a permanent resident, in which the chief turning a blind sometimes a blind eye when the rent on time was not - But where it should be a legend that he had some also live in vain. It was at the central works of American culture - and the hotel was site of several personal tragedies such as the (never solved) murder of Nancy Spungen by Sid Vicious. Dylan Thomas drank himself to death here, Arthur Miller wrote in room 711 to be successful play A View from the Bridge to the operetta, Arthur C. Clark wrote in the Chelsea Hotel, the new century "2001 - A Space Odyssey." Leonard Cohen spent just one night there with Janis Joplin - and immortalized the experience in his song "Chelsea Hotel", Andy Warhol filmed here a "superstar" in the film "Chelsea Walls" from 2001, with Ethan Hawke (and the music of Wilco) the legend of the hotel and the artist himself is living subject.
Photo: Wikipedia / Calton The house - 1883 built as the apartment block - Anno 2007 is well rocked pretty - the atmosphere is dingy, power cycles of failure of the new-fangled double burden of computer and hair dryer more state and ever, the hotel is in the last 30 years, newly renovated Manhattan an anachronism. It is the last vestige of the bohemian culture that the city in the 20th Century to the creative hub of the world, the yearning of many artists and culture lovers will be allowed, which represented the feelings of what connects you with New York. This culture was through the rehabilitation of Manhattan and was thus displaced beyond measure rising property prices on the Peninsula in recent years more and more and today it is barely existent, since hardly artists - that unless he David Bowie - the exorbitant rents or purchase prices here can afford. For this is to leave here raul real estate so attractive to speculators that they will use any means necessary, disagreeable and not according to ability to pay tenant or former owner.
are now not entirely unjustified fears that the hotel sent up the tight environment to be adjusted. The new managers have already announced a renovation - But they want to supposedly get the old character of the hotel and erect it again even in praise of his old days back. However, after the expected rent adjustment without the majority of its permanent residents, who make up at least 2 / 3 of guests - many of them can now afford the rent for the area unbeatable bargain of less than 1,000 dollars a month, hardly. also observed a reporter for The Independent that the new manager at room visit could hardly hide, as they were disgusted by the condition of the hotel. Hotel residents who doubt too that the new manager a sense of story of the place and the will have to respect this lead for some time a blog. Here they gather critical information and links to articles about the hotel.
A wonderful watch, knowing and all its objectivity deeply passionate book on the cultural, economic, social and political development of New York in the 1980s until the early 2000s, in the context of the subcultures of the past decade and the changes to see are the journalist Andrian Kreye has written: "Broadway corner Chanal" (2004, Droemer / Knaur, ISBN: 3426777517).
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