Talk:Hotel Chelsea

message: Can someone say if the hotel is still used by permanent guests? Or is it just a hotel now. Their website seems to suggest that its just an expensive hotel now.
-to the best of my knowledge, the hotel still has more permanent guests than rooms for people who only stay there for a few days. This is what I heard when staying there a year ago (2005).
::In a recent Sunday Times Magazine article (25 March 2007), it says that of 240 apartments, 60% are residential and only 40% are hotel rooms. Chrisfow 18:10, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Removed "Raymond Foye." Not a notable 'writer or thinker'. 71.247.73.50 19:05, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Permanent guests

message: Does anyone know if the chelsea hotel is expensive these days? i go on websites about it and the pictures they have of the rooms is so nicer than how the hotel was Years ago. so i was wondering what the price of a normal room would be?. --70.18.67.87 21:57, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The Hotel's website, http://www.hotelchelsea.com/rates.html , has all the latest rates. Chrisfow 18:10, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Price?

message: This is in the intro: 'It is perhaps best-known as the hotel where Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols stabbed his girlfriend Nancy Spungen to death…' shouldn't this read '…where Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols allegedly (or may have) stabbed his girlfriend Nancy Spungen to death…', seeing as he was never found guilty of the crime, and there were other people visiting the room that night?eiscir 17:52, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Google search for "Virgil Thompson" returns 16,300 hits. "Sid Vicious" returns 1,670,000, indicating that Sid Vicious is approximately 100 times better remembered than Virgil Thompson. Even if, as I suspect, you mean Virgil Thomson, that returns 128,000 hits. I think Sid still as it.86.0.203.120 (talk) 18:21, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sid & Nancy 

message: In checking Hayden Herrera's book, Frida and Diego stayed at the Barbizon Plaza, now the Trump Parc, whenever they came to New York.  I found no reference in any book about either of them at the Chelsea.  Can whoever added them to the list of residents provide a source?  Also, while there is a reference given in the article, most major books on Kerouac list 454 W. 20th as the place of the final writing of "On The Road" (the book had been in the works for years).  Even the Wikipedia "Kerouac" article lists that address.  I do not think Kerouac ever even lived at the Chelsea.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.25.46.110 (talk) 05:51, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Frida Kahlo and Diego Riviera?  And regarding "On the Road" . . . 

message: I was really surprised to not see anything about the hotel supposedly being haunted.  That is definitely one of the main things it's famous for.  I'm not saying that the haunting is a fact, but the public notion or general idea should be worth mentioning.  G90025 (talk) 12:14, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: It's actually not "one of the main things" the hotel is famous for, but if it's so well known, it should be easy for you to find a citation from a reliable source and add it to the article. Beyond My Ken (talk) 04:19, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Supposed haunting 

message: I did a major gutting of the everything from Notable residents down.  I pulled out everything that did not have some kind of source for the information.  Everyone wants to put their favorite artists in the list.  We should require they provide a source.  These were getting so bloated and were very hard to read.  ~ GB fan 18:58, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removal 

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message: I've removed the undue-weight tag, which was added with the edit summary "The amount of space devoted to "notable residents" is excessive". With all due respect, it is not. Unlike most other hotels in NYC, the Chelsea is known specifically because of its notable residents, of which it has had an inordinate amount. Several sources, such as Ed Hamilton's Legends of the Chelsea Hotel: Living with the Artists and Outlaws at New York's Rebel Mecca and Sherill Tippins's Inside the Dream Palace: the Life and Times of New York's Legendary Chelsea Hotel talk about the hotel's residents in great depth, devoting entire chapters to certain residents. The notable residents section devotes at most one sentence to each resident (and, in fact, most of the residents are mentioned only in one of the bulleted lists). 
The prose size of this article is about 60,000 bytes, which is also appropriate given the cultural importance of this hotel. The prose size of the "notable residents" section is just 6,000 bytes - 10% of the total and hardly an excessive amount of space.
Given this context, the tag should not be restored, especially without further discussion. – Epicgenius (talk) 15:53, 14 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Amount of space devoted to notable residents