Electronic Bohemia

We’ve heard it through the grapevine that BD is getting set to reveal their plans for the future of the hotel.  Among their many less-than-innovative ideas, they apparently plan to install key cards on the doors of the transient rooms.  What a brilliant stroke of genius, and a tremendous waste of money.  Hey, News flash: the Chelsea is an old time hotel, and people who come here --  tourists and residents alike – are attached to the slightly down-at-the-heels grandeur of the place.  We have beautiful, heavy, solid wooden doors of a craftsmanship seldom seen these days, and the last thing we need is for these philistines to cut holes in them for their diabolical Big Brother madness.  Which brings me to another rpoint: the people who stay here prefer to come and go as they please.  You have to be a bit of a free spirit to want to stay at the Chelsea. . -- Ed Hamilton