An Evening At: The Fifth Floor at the Chelsea
So we've covered the rooms. We've covered the pool. What about the Fifth Floor? As you all know, the Chelsea Hotel team locked up Paul Sevigny and Matt Abramcyk to bring their Beatrice cache out of New York and down to the beach. A bold and risky move for several reasons, but why look back? So what has the arrangement produced so far? We'll tell you. First, like everything else in the hotel, the spaces are retro and suave, with a throwback game room, lounge and pool side bar. Since the weather was so nice all weekend, the space that got the most play was the outdoor space. Friday night was relatively quiet, with some shore rats listening to the Beatrice DJ's spinning. Saturday night is when things got interesting.
It all started Saturday afternoon when the party bus rolled in from New York City. That evening, the Chelsea was set to host Anna Abramcyck's (Matt's sister) birthday party, and to help her celebrate, the hotel bussed down heaps of her friends. After a late supper, we strolled into the Fifth Floor around midnight. We found the game room relatively empty, but the outdoor lounge was on and popping. MGMT was blaring over the speakers, and the bus folks were starting to make their way downstairs from the penthouse pre-game.
Fast forward to 2:00 AM, when some of the LCD Soundsystem crew had taken over the tables, spinning a deep funk groove. The birthday party (and DBTH) had crossed the threshold into the game room and indoor bar and a dance party was in full effect. The pool deck cleared out, but the party was just getting started. By 3:30, it was seemingly anything goes, and almost anything did. We headed upstairs at about 4, but it seemed like we were the first. Such losers. If the Chelsea wanted to show that the NYC kiddies would be willing to trek down to the dirty dirty, this is certainly a good start. Those who were there certainly learned first hand that you can have fun in Atlantic City. But how did they enjoy the shore regulars that had to gawk at their VIP treatment? And will that turn the regulars off? We certainly shall see.
DBTH
Reader Comments (4)
This place rocks. I hope they do well.
After a few days in Telluride CO to clean out the lungs and visit Matt Levine's boy Tom Cruise I am Back!! Ok so quick thoughts on The Chelsea are that the space is nice rooms pool lounge all great but what happens in the winter when the shuttle buses aren't bringing the hipsters? Who will support this place, steroids and skinny jeans don't mix and that is this place's fatal flaw it will be too cool for its demographic and in turn it will miss its mark with its core audience (Vacationers and South jersey/Philly residents). Its a shame but luckily they were hired as consultants and won't lose tons of $$ by being equity partners.
Yeah same thing happened when we where there. They brought everyone down in a bus, COMPED our rooms and drinks and about 25 of us were the life of the party (actually we were probably the only ones there). And this is a Saturday in August with nothing else to do.
It was a cute time but I dont think anyone is going to hop on a bus in October, especially if it's a not a free ride the whole way. Ghost Town after Labor Day.
Willy-B and Mishka -- if you had fun, why wouldn't you go back in the winter and rip it up? from the reviews, this place looks like it would be cool in summer and winter.........loser freeloaders you must be......