The public loves the Chelsea but they don’t love corporate hotels. Can you imagine this sort of tour being given at the so called Pod Hotel or any other of BD’s glorified flophouses. The public like the hotel because it’s old and quirky and genuine. There’s no place else like it on earth. There’s a million places like the Pod Hotel or the Maritime and nobody would give a good God Damn if they were wiped from the face of the earth tomorrow. It’s all just part of the plastification and Disneyification of New York which has gone much too far. Even in this throw away society some things should be off limits. (Photos from Jerry's 7/22/07 92nd Street Y tour of the Chelsea Hotel)
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