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The demise of the Chelsea Hotel.

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Granted the hotel will stay a haven for a few of those struggling artists fortunate to be offered a haven (the rest of us will have to accept living in Brooklyn- which I have come to love and with with to burn to survive) but even the fact that the sale of the hotel will ostensibly be intended to bring in extra revenues to make some improvements as well as profit on the name sake of waking up in the same room where a master playwright and his fiance (Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe) – where those same artists today are more likely to be found in Bushwick or a cursory glance in this week’s Craigslist seeking new room mates.

Will the sale of the Chelsea Hotel foster more creative spirit, the same spirit that has ingested the city and made it what it has become – a beacon for so many talented souls or will it be the latest death knell of the entertainment classes forced to make way for the money bags out there who want to buy the aura of cache so many of us artists, writers, photographers, entertainers, rock stars,actors fought so valiantly to create and maintain. But then again, most of us have chosen our lot, and as much as the Chelsea will probably become a part 14 of the latest Disney show that NYC has become the city will inevitably seek its artists and thinkers to once again rejuvinate it- let’s hope we haven’t burned up in hell by then.

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  1. It’s inevitable. The baby boomers will slowly be selling off their property for peanuts, to developers who have no sense of history and legacy. The only possible way to save the original structure is to commodify its legend into a sort of theme park for kids who have no idea who Sid & Nancy are (and don’t give a shit) – i.g: CBGB by Varvatos. At this point, with all the underage flashing teeny boppers hogging headlines, Don Hill’s might as well be owned and operated by Hot Topic and open it up to tweens.

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