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The other Chelsea

Monday, 9th June 2008


The only time I ever stayed in the Chelsea Hotel, I found myself wondering why anyone would want to pay for a dank and dingy room where the black and white TV had one of those old-fashioned twist-and-click channel tuners. Englishman in New York paints a much more appealing portrait in an article about a controversial attempt  to glitzify the W23rd St landmark: 

I had quite a time researching the story, popping in and out of apartments and meeting an array of characters. The resident who left the most impression, but who never made it into the story because of space, is a former singer-songwriter called Jann Paxton. Jann is very ill, suffering from cancer, he looked quite gaunt and would not allow me to take a photograph of him, hence the above picture of his dog Ginger. Jann is among the Chelsea tenants currently threatened with eviction.
If you want to hear more about the tenants' campaign, they have their own blog, "Living With Legends"

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