BD NY Hotels, the Richard Born and Ira Drukier-led outfit hired last year to replace eccentric longtime Chelsea Hotel manager Stanley Bard, has filed for arbitration after being fired by the hotel’s governing board for "willful misconduct."
The controversial management team, which installed a rookie, 26-year-old Glennon Travis in the place Read More
Rumors have been circulating for days about the looming departure of Glennon Travis, controversial manager of the embattled Chelsea Hotel.
Now, the Chelsea Hotel gossip site, Living With Legends, is suggesting that Mr. Travis’ corporate higher-ups at BD Hotels have been sacked, as well.
The Observer just sent an email Read More
Legendary hotelier Stanley Bard doesn’t hang out in the lobby of his beloved Chelsea Hotel as often as he used to.
But, two weeks ago, the hotel’s infamously ousted manager made a rare appearance, joining the director Milos Forman (himself a former hotel resident) for an on-camera interview smack-dab in the middle of Read More
So much for the Chelsea Hotel’s resident "eurotrash beachbum."
Glennon Travis, the new director of operations for the embattled bohemian enclave, whom The Observer profiled last week, has scrapped his revealing MySpace page following the article’s publication.
Nevermind that part about "[d]espite the teasing, Mr. Travis has yet to remove or even alter Read More
