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by Sherill Tippins


  [>] “Where am I?”: Rani Singh, interview with the author, November 12, 2009.

  [>] Jonas Mekas, Raymond Foye, and the Austrian: Raymond Foye, e-mail to the author, February 26, 2012.

  [>] “Oh dear, the glass slides”: Ibid.

  Epilogue: Second Life

  [>] “The hotel will never”: Stanley Bard, interview with the author, November 30, 2007.

  [>] Arnold Weinstein: Scott Griffin, interview with the author, November 14, 2007.

  [>] “It’s nine o’clock”: Helen Dudar, “It’s Home Sweet Home for Geniuses, Real or Would-Be,” Smithsonian 14, no. 9 (December 1983): 94–107.

  [>] Gerald Busby’s lover: Gerald Busby, interview with the author, May 12, 2007.

  [>] the pressures of life: Sam Bassett, interview with the author, October 15, 2008.

  [>] Bard provided: “Hawke Was Given a Month to Save His Marriage by Hotel Boss,” Hollywood.com, October 9, 2009, http://www .hollywood.com/news/celebrities/5712640/hawke-was-given-a-month- to-save-his-marriage-by-hotel-boss.

  [>] George Kleinsinger’s ashes: Dudar, “It’s Home Sweet Home.”

  [>] her ashes, too: Ed Hamilton and Debbie Martin, “Chelsea Façade Finally Full,” Living with Legends: Hotel Chelsea blog, http://www.chelseahotel blog.com/living_with_legends_the_h/2006/09/final_plaque.html.

  [>] “changed through music”: “Harry Smith Acknowledged,” www.newrealities.tv; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgY9pAAXu1A.

  [>] the artist George Chemeche: Hotel Chelsea (documentary film), produced and directed by Doris Chase, 1992.

  [>] Man-Lai Liang: Ibid.

  [>] “a palace”: Jean Nathan, “Within the Walls of the Chelsea,” New York Times, February 7, 1993.

  [>] “individuality and expression”: Frank DiGiacomo, “Interview: Gaby Hoffmann’s ‘Crystal (Fairy’) Method,” Movieline, January 25, 2013, http://movieline.com/2013/01/25/gaby-hoffmann-interview-crystal- fairy/.

  [>] “celebration of capitalism”: David Leonhardt, “The Heroes of Housing Just Say No,” New York Times, August 9, 2006.

  [>] “a radical act”: Ariel Leve, “New York Storeys,” Sunday Times Magazine (UK), March 25, 2007.

  [>] How the Other Half Lives: Shaun O’Connell, “Two Nations: The Homeless in a Divided Land,” New England Journal of Public Policy 8, no. 1 (March 23, 1992).

  [>] ninth-story balcony fell: Christopher Gray, “Streetscapes: The Chelsea Hotel at 222 West 23rd Street,” New York Times, February 15, 1998.

  [>] removing Stanley: Stanley Bard, interview with the author, May 15, 2006.

  [>] fired him as manager: “Daily Intelligencer: Stanley Bard Ousted from Chelsea Hotel,” New York Magazine (June 18, 2007).

  [>] Chetrit Group: Tom Acitelli, “Joseph Chetrit, The Most Mysterious Big Shot in New York Real Estate,” New York Observer, July 5, 2011.

  [>] art stripped: Corey Kilgannon, “City Room: First, No More Guests; Now, Chelsea Hotel Says No More Art,” New York Times, November 4, 2011.

  [>] shut down “for renovations”: Juliana, “The Hotel Chelsea, After All the Drama These Past Few Years, Has Closed for Renovations,” HotelChatter.com, August 1, 2011, http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2011/8/1/1504/ 06247/hotels/The_Chelsea_Hotel,_After_All_The_Drama_These_Past_Few_Years,_Has_Closed_for_Renovations.

  [>] “I am crying”: Michele Zalopany, e-mail to the author, August 1, 2011.

  [>] “I feel like”: Mary Anne Rose, e-mail to the author, August 1, 2011.

  [>] the monthly orgy: Jennifer Kester, “The Hotel Chelsea Say No More Orgies Allowed,” HotelChatter.com, May 5, 2011, http://www.hotelchatter .com/story/2011/5/5/112454/2203/hotels/The_Hotel_Chelsea_ Says_No_More_Orgies_Allowed.

  [>] Carmine Street Guitars: Andy Cush and Joseph Schulhoff, “Rick Kelly Builds Guitars from Fallen New York City Landmarks,” AnimalNewYork.com, August 7, 2012, http://animalnewyork.com/2012/animal-people -rick-kelly-builds-guitars-from-fallen-new-york-landmarks/.

  [>] “Lately I think”: Raymond Foye, e-mail to the author, February 27, 2012.

  [>] “Duchamp once noted”: Raymond Foye, “The Alchemical Image,” The Heavenly Tree Grows Downward (exhibition catalog), September 10 to October 19, 2002.

  [>] “I just had to take a look”: Graham Boynton, “New York, Ten Years after 9/11,” Telegraph (UK), September 9, 2011, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/northamerica/usa/newyork/8752020/New-York -ten-years-after-911.html.

  [>] eighty households: Beecher, Charles Fourier, 87.

  APPENDIX: Cost Equivalencies

  [>] “Cost Equivalencies”: All cost equivalencies are provided by www.measuringworth.com/uscompare/courtesyofMeasuringWorth.com.

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