Before there were the Marx Brothers, Laurel and Hardy, the Three Stooges, or Abbott and Costello, there was Weber and Fields—the largely forgotten comedy team who made all of them, and many others, possible. The famous roughhousing German dialect comedians were not only the most popular funny men in the country at the turn of […]
In an age when “Retail Space Available†signs occupy storefront windows for years—delivering food for thought about the future of mom-and-pop shops—this morning’s message was easy to digest. “We are finally open,†read the sandwich board standing sentry outside of 170 West 23rd St. (btw. 6th & 7th Aves.) on Thurs., May 2, as the […]
Chelsea Guitars, after 30 years in business here at the Chelsea Hotel, received, right around the Christmas holidays last year, a notice from the new owners of the hotel that stated they needed us to vacate in six months. The Chelsea had just been passed to the new owners (the fifth set of owners in […]