Sounds to me like the residents of this hotel should call themselves "Artists against Change." Are folks really interested in "preserving" a run-down, decaying hotel with structural problems that border on dangerous? Highly doubtful, it seems more likely that a bunch of "artists" are interested in "preserving" their rent-free lifestyle in Manhattan. Who wouldn't? I wish, however, folks would call it for what it is -- a bunch of cheap liberals don't want to have to live like the rest of us and cloak their stinginess in a wistful sigh for a bygone era filled with free drugs, free love and apparently, free rent. Get over it and grow up. I am surprised at the lack of depth in this article and the sole focus on Mr. Travis' age - is that really relevant? Who are the residents of the Chelsea? What are they paying in rent, if anything? Who are the folks who want to preserve this building and restore it to a place where people really want to go? What is in store for this institution? Point and counter-point make a story, not some drivel about the age of a hotel manager that seems obviously planted by disgruntled inhabitants of the hotel. What happened to the integrity of The Observer?
Sounds to me like the residents of this hotel should call themselves "Artists against Change." Are folks really interested in "preserving" a run-down, decaying hotel with structural problems that border on dangerous? Highly doubtful, it seems more likely that a bunch of "artists" are interested in "preserving" their rent-free lifestyle in Manhattan. Who wouldn't? I wish, however, folks would call it for what it is -- a bunch of cheap liberals don't want to have to live like the rest of us and cloak their stinginess in a wistful sigh for a bygone era filled with free drugs, free love and apparently, free rent. Get over it and grow up. I am surprised at the lack of depth in this article and the sole focus on Mr. Travis' age - is that really relevant? Who are the residents of the Chelsea? What are they paying in rent, if anything? Who are the folks who want to preserve this building and restore it to a place where people really want to go? What is in store for this institution? Point and counter-point make a story, not some drivel about the age of a hotel manager that seems obviously planted by disgruntled inhabitants of the hotel. What happened to the integrity of The Observer?