Hotel Chelsea
Historic hotel in Manhattan
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| March 2025 | A Japanese restaurant named Teruko opened at the hotel. |
| 2024 | The first edition of the Michelin Keys Guide ranked the Hotel Chelsea as a 'one-key' hotel, the third-highest accolade. Suitcase magazine highlighted that the hotel retained the spirit of Philip Hubert's original socialist-leaning vision. |
| 2024 | Hotel's neon sign and stained-glass windows were auctioned off. |
| July 2023 | Café Chelsea, a French bistro, opened within the hotel. |
| 2022 | Dreaming Walls: Inside the Chelsea Hotel, an executive-produced documentary by Martin Scorsese, was released. |
| 2022 | Hotel fully reopened, with 40 permanent residents and suites starting at $700 per night. |
| 2022 | El Quijote restaurant underwent a significant renovation, removing the Dulcinea and Cervantes rooms and reducing its seating capacity to 45-65 people. |
| June 2022 | The Bard Room opened at ground level. |
| March 2022 | Hotel Chelsea soft-reopened to transient guests, initially renting rooms at a discount while work continued. |
| February 2022 | El Quijote restaurant reopened. |
| 2021 | Bettina Grossman died after living at the Chelsea Hotel since 1970. |
| May 2021 | Hotel owners sued the city, claiming construction delays cost them $100 million. |
| January 2021 | Renovation work resumed after the city government decided not to pursue a tenant-harassment investigation. |
| 2020 | Renovation project was mostly stalled due to a harassment lawsuit, though a state judge later dismissed the suit. |
| 2019 | Photographer Colin Miller published 'Hotel Chelsea: Living in the Last Bohemian Haven', featuring interior pictures of the remaining apartments. Fiona Davis also used the hotel as a setting in her novel 'Chelsea Girls'. |
| 2018 | Some of the hotel's original doors were removed and sold at auction. |
| 2018 | Prior to this year, El Quijote restaurant had a seating capacity of 220 people, including the Dulcinea and Cervantes rooms. |
| March 2018 | El Quijote restaurant was temporarily closed for renovations. |
| 2017 | Bard's collection of paintings was sold off after his death, and renovation work was halted when high concentrations of lead were discovered in the dust. |
| 2016 | Nicolaia Rips wrote the memoir 'Trying to Float: Coming of Age in the Chelsea Hotel'. |
| 2016 | BD Hotels takes over ownership of the Hotel Chelsea. |
| October 2016 | SIR Chelsea LLC, led by Sean MacPherson, Ira Drukier, and Richard Born, purchased the Chelsea Hotel for $250 million. |
| 2013 | Sherill Tippins published 'Inside the Dream Palace' about the Hotel Chelsea. Victoria Cohen also published a coffee table book titled 'Hotel Chelsea'. |
| 2011 | The Hotel Chelsea closes for a major renovation. |
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