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Hotel Chelsea

The Hotel Chelsea (also the Chelsea Hotel or the Chelsea) is a hotel in Manhattan, New York City, built between 1883 and 1885. The 250-unit[2] hotel is located at 222 West 23rd Street, between Seventh and Eighth Avenues, in the neighborhood of Chelsea.

Hotel Chelsea
Hotel Chelsea
Location222 West 23rd Street
Chelsea, Manhattan, New York City
Coordinates40°44′40″N 73°59′48″W / 40.74444°N 73.99667°W / 40.74444; -73.99667
Area<1 acre
Built1884
ArchitectHubert, Pirsson and Company
Architectural styleQueen Anne Revival, Victorian Gothic
Websitehotelchelsea.com
NRHP reference No.77000958[1]
NYCL No.0215
Significant dates
Added to NRHPDecember 27, 1977
Designated NYCLMarch 15, 1966

It has been the home of numerous writers, musicians, artists and actors. Though the Chelsea no longer accepts new long-term residents, the building is still home to many who lived there before the change in policy. Arthur C. Clarke wrote 2001: A Space Odyssey while staying at the Chelsea,[3] and poets Allen Ginsberg[4] and Gregory Corso chose it as a place for philosophical and artistic exchange. It is also known as the place where the writer Dylan Thomas was staying in room 205 when he became ill and died several days later, in a local hospital, of pneumonia on November 9, 1953,[3][4] and where Nancy Spungen, girlfriend of Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols, was found stabbed to death on October 12, 1978.[3][4] Arthur Miller wrote a short piece, "The Chelsea Affect", describing life at the Chelsea Hotel in the early 1960s.[5]

The building has been a designated New York City landmark since 1966,[6] and on the National Register of Historic Places since 1977.[1][7]

History

 
A close-up of the hotel's signage

Built between 1883 and 1885 and opened for initial occupation in 1884,[6][8] the twelve-story red-brick building that is now the Hotel Chelsea was one of the city's first private apartment cooperatives.[2] It was designed by Philip Hubert[9] of the firm of Hubert, Pirrson & Company in a style that has been described variously as Queen Anne Revival and Victorian Gothic.[8] Among its distinctive features are the delicate, flower-ornamented iron balconies on its facade, which were constructed by J.B. and J.M. Cornell[6][8] and its grand staircase, which extends upward twelve floors. Generally, this staircase is only accessible to registered guests, although the hotel does offer monthly tours to others. At the time of its construction, the building was the tallest in New York.[10]

Hubert and Pirsson had created a "Hubert Home Club" in 1880 for "The Rembrandt," a six-story building on West 57th Street intended as housing for artists.[11] This early cooperative building had rental units to help defray costs, and also provided servants as part of the building staff.[9] The success of this model led to other "Hubert Home Clubs," and the Chelsea was one of them.[9] Initially successful, its surrounding neighborhood constituted the center of New York's theater district.[12] However, within a few years the combination of economic stresses, the suspicions of New York's middle class about apartment living, the opening up of Upper Manhattan and the plentiful supply of houses there, and the relocation of the city's theater district bankrupted the Chelsea.[9][12]

The building reopened as a hotel in 1905, which was later managed by Knott Hotels and resident manager A. R. Walty. After the hotel went bankrupt, it was purchased in 1939 by Joseph Gross, Julius Krauss, and David Bard,[2] and these partners managed the hotel together until the early 1970s. Stanley Bard,[13] David Bard's son, became manager after Gross and Krauss' deaths.

On June 18, 2007, the hotel's board of directors ousted Bard as the hotel's manager. Dr. Marlene Krauss, the daughter of Julius Krauss, and David Elder, the grandson of Joseph Gross and the son of playwright and screenwriter Lonne Elder III, replaced Stanley Bard with the management company BD Hotels NY; that firm has since been terminated as well.

The hotel was sold to real estate developer Joseph Chetrit for $80 million in 2011[14] and stopped taking reservations for new guests, to begin renovations.[15][16] Long-time residents were allowed to remain in the building, some of them protected by state rent regulations.[17] The renovations prompted complaints to the city by the remaining tenants of health hazards caused by the construction.[18] The city's Building Department investigated these complaints and found no major violations.[19] In November 2011, the management ordered all of the hotel's many artworks taken off the walls, supposedly for their protection and cataloging, a move which some tenants interpreted as a step towards forcing them out as well.[17] In 2013, Ed Scheetz became the Chelsea Hotel's new owner after buying back five properties from Chetrit and David Bistricer.[20][21] In 2016, Ira Drukier, Richard Born and Sean MacPherson bought the Chelsea Hotel.[22]

 
El Quijote, Hotel Chelsea at night (July 2022)

Located in the Chelsea since 1930 is the restaurant El Quijote which was owned by the same family until 2017 when it was sold to the new owner of the hotel. In late March 2018 the eatery also closed for renovations.[23]

In February 2022 Hotel Chelsea and El Quijote quietly reopened.[24][25]

Notable residents

 
Art fills the staircase of the Hotel Chelsea (2005)

Literary artists

During its lifetime Hotel Chelsea has provided a home to many famous writers and thinkers including Mark Twain,[26] O. Henry,[26] Herbert Huncke,[27] Dylan Thomas,[4][26] Arthur C. Clarke,[3] Sam Shepard,[28] Arthur Miller,[3][4] Tennessee Williams,[26] Jack Kerouac,[27] Brendan Behan,[28] Thomas Wolfe,[28] Valerie Solanas,[28] William S. Burroughs,[4] Allen Ginsberg,[4] Quentin Crisp,[29][better source needed] Gregory Corso,[30] Arnold Weinstein,[31] Catherine Leroy,[32] and James Schuyler.[33]

Delmore Schwartz, author of "In Dreams Begin Responsibilities", spent the last few years of his life in seclusion at the Hotel Chelsea.[34]

Charles R. Jackson, author of The Lost Weekend, died by suicide in his room on September 21, 1968.[35] Joseph O'Neill and his wife moved there in 1998, and they raised three sons there; the Chelsea Hotel plays a significant role in his novel Netherland.[4]

Actors and film directors

The hotel has been a home to actors, film directors, and comedians such as Stanley Kubrick, Shirley Clarke, Mitch Hedberg, Dave Hill, Miloš Forman, Lillie Langtry, Dennis Hopper, Squat Theatre Company, Eddie Izzard, Uma Thurman, Elliott Gould, Elaine Stritch, Michael Imperioli, Jane Fonda, Russell Brand, the Warhol film star Viva and her daughter Gaby Hoffmann,[citation needed] Ethan Hawke,[28] and Edie Sedgwick.[4][28]

The filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim, who temporarily resided in the hotel, portrayed the artist and long-term resident of the hotel Ching Ho Cheng for his film Tally Brown, New York.[36]

Musicians

Much of the Hotel Chelsea's history has been colored by the musicians who have resided there. Some of the most prominent names include Chet Baker,[29][better source needed] Grateful Dead, Nico, Tom Waits, Patti Smith,[3][4] Jim Morrison,[3] Iggy Pop, Virgil Thomson, Jeff Beck,[37] Bob Dylan,[3][4] Chick Corea,[37] Alexander Frey,[37] Dee Dee Ramone,[37] Alice Cooper,[37] Édith Piaf,[37] Johnny Thunders,[37] Mink DeVille,[37] Alejandro Escovedo, Marianne Faithfull,[37] Cher,[37] John Cale,[37] Joni Mitchell,[29][better source needed] Robbie Robertson,[38] Bette Midler,[37] Pink Floyd,[37] Jimi Hendrix,[37] Canned Heat, J.D. Stooks,[37] Jacques Labouchere,[37] Sid Vicious,[37] Richard Barone, Lance Loud and Rufus Wainwright.[28]

Madonna lived at the Chelsea in the early 1980s, returning in 1992 to shoot photographs for her book, Sex, in room 822.[39] Leonard Cohen, who lived in room 424, and Janis Joplin,[37] in room 411, had an affair there in 1968, and Cohen later wrote two songs about it, "Chelsea Hotel" and "Chelsea Hotel #2".[4][40] Bob Dylan wrote the epic song "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" there, and Nico's "Chelsea Girls" is about the hotel and its inhabitants. Jobriath spent his last years in the pyramid-topped apartment on the Chelsea's rooftop where he died of complications due to AIDS in August 1983.[41] The Kills wrote much of their album No Wow at the Chelsea presumably between the years 2003 to 2005.[42] Jorma Kaukonen wrote the song "Third Week in the Chelsea" for Jefferson Airplane's 1971 album Bark after spending three weeks living in the Chelsea.[43]

Visual artists

 
Lobby of the hotel in 2010

The hotel has featured and collected the work of the many visual artists who have passed through. Frank Bowling,[44] Doris Chase, Bernard Childs, Claudio Edinger, Brett Whiteley, Ching Ho Cheng, Larry Rivers and from 1961 to 1970 several of his French nouveau réalistes friends like Yves Klein (who wrote his Manifeste de l'hôtel Chelsea there in April 1961),[4] Arman, Martial Raysse, Jean Tinguely, Niki de Saint Phalle, Christo, Daniel Spoerri or Alain Jacquet (who left a version of his Déjeuner sur l'herbe from 1964 in the hotel lobby featuring other pieces by Larry Rivers or Arman),[45] Francesco Clemente,[28] Julian Schnabel,[28] Joe Andoe,[46] David Remfry,[47] Diego Rivera, Ryah Ludins,[48] Robert Crumb, Ellen Cantor, Jasper Johns, Tom Wesselmann, Claes Oldenburg, Herbert Gentry, Willem de Kooning, Stella Waitzkin,[49] Robert Mapplethorpe (room 1017, with Patti Smith).[4] The Australian Vali Myers moved into the hotel in 1971 and remained there for 43 years.[50]

Moses Soyer (who died there in 1974), Nora Sumberg, and Henri Cartier-Bresson have all spent time at the hotel. Experimental filmmaker and ethnomusicologist Harry Smith lived and died in room 328.[citation needed] The painter Alphaeus Philemon Cole lived there for 35 years until his death in 1988, aged 112, at which point he was the oldest verified man alive.[51] The sculptor René Shapshak and his wife lived here;[52] his bust of Harry Truman and reliefs were in the lobby.[53] Artist Maryan S. Maryan lived there for several years and died in his hotel room in 1977.[54]

Fashion designers

Charles James, credited with being America's first couturier who influenced fashion in the 1940s and 1950s, moved into the Chelsea in 1964.[55] He died there of pneumonia in 1978. Elizabeth Hawes, a designer best remembered for her critique of the fashion industry in her book, Fashion is Spinach (1938), lived in the Chelsea up until her death in 1971.[56] When Billy Reid started his brand in 1998, it was a one-man operation; he lived in the Garment District, while a room at the Chelsea served as an office, studio and showroom.[57] After returning to New York city in 2001 during a sabbatical, Natalie "Alabama" Chanin spent nine months living in the Chelsea Hotel. During her stay, she met many friends, future collaborators, and designed her first collection of 200 upcycled, hand sewn t-shirts, a project that would become Project Alabama and eventually Alabama Chanin. As Chanin's career took off as a pioneer of sustainable design, she continued to show her collections in rooms 409 and 411 at the Chelsea Hotel until 2003.[58][non-primary source needed]

Warhol

Hotel Chelsea is often associated with the Warhol superstars, as Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey directed Chelsea Girls (1966), a film about his Factory regulars and their lives at the hotel.

In popular culture

Films and television

The hotel has been featured in:

Music

The hotel is featured in many songs, including:

Books

  • Davis, Fiona (2019). The Chelsea Girls. Dutton. ISBN 978-1-5247-4458-8.
  • Hamilton, Ed (2007). Legends of the Chelsea Hotel: Living with the Artists and Outlaws at New York's Rebel Mecca. ISBN 978-1-56858-379-2.
  • Lough, James (July 2013). This Ain't No Holiday Inn: Down and Out at the Chelsea Hotel 1980–1995. ISBN 978-1-936182-52-7.
  • O'Neill, Joseph (2008). Netherland. ISBN 978-0-00-727570-0.
  • Ramone, Dee Dee (2001). Chelsea Horror Hotel: A Novel. ISBN 1-56025-304-5.
  • Rips, Nicolaia (2016). Trying to Float: Coming of Age in the Chelsea Hotel. ISBN 978-1-5011-3298-8.
  • Smith, Patti (2010). Just Kids. Ecco. ISBN 978-0-06-621131-2.
  • Tippins, Sherill (2013). Inside the Dream Palace: the Life and Times of New York's Legendary Chelsea Hotel. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-9561-1.
  • Turner, Florence (1987). At the Chelsea. ISBN 978-0-15-109780-7.
  • Wielaert, Jeroen (2002). Chelsea Hotel, een Biografie van een Hotel (in Dutch). ISBN 90-76927-02-2.
  • Edinger, Claudio (1983). Chelsea Hotel, photobook by Claudio Edinger and texts by Arthur C. Clark and William Burroughs. ISBN 0-89659-338-X.

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External links

  • Official website
  • Chelsea Hotel – New York Architecture images
  • 360° Panoramas of Chelsea Hotel before 2011–2012 renovations
  • "Ed Hamilton: One of the last Chelsea Hotel Bohemians". The Somerville Times. January 30, 2013.

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For the 2009 film see Hotel Chelsea film For other uses see Chelsea Hotel The Hotel Chelsea also the Chelsea Hotel or the Chelsea is a hotel in Manhattan New York City built between 1883 and 1885 The 250 unit 2 hotel is located at 222 West 23rd Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues in the neighborhood of Chelsea Hotel ChelseaU S National Register of Historic PlacesNew York City Landmark No 0215Hotel ChelseaShow map of Lower ManhattanShow map of New York CityShow map of New YorkLocation222 West 23rd StreetChelsea Manhattan New York CityCoordinates40 44 40 N 73 59 48 W 40 74444 N 73 99667 W 40 74444 73 99667Area lt 1 acreBuilt1884ArchitectHubert Pirsson and CompanyArchitectural styleQueen Anne Revival Victorian GothicWebsitehotelchelsea comNRHP reference No 77000958 1 NYCL No 0215Significant datesAdded to NRHPDecember 27 1977Designated NYCLMarch 15 1966It has been the home of numerous writers musicians artists and actors Though the Chelsea no longer accepts new long term residents the building is still home to many who lived there before the change in policy Arthur C Clarke wrote 2001 A Space Odyssey while staying at the Chelsea 3 and poets Allen Ginsberg 4 and Gregory Corso chose it as a place for philosophical and artistic exchange It is also known as the place where the writer Dylan Thomas was staying in room 205 when he became ill and died several days later in a local hospital of pneumonia on November 9 1953 3 4 and where Nancy Spungen girlfriend of Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols was found stabbed to death on October 12 1978 3 4 Arthur Miller wrote a short piece The Chelsea Affect describing life at the Chelsea Hotel in the early 1960s 5 The building has been a designated New York City landmark since 1966 6 and on the National Register of Historic Places since 1977 1 7 Contents 1 History 2 Notable residents 2 1 Literary artists 2 2 Actors and film directors 2 3 Musicians 2 4 Visual artists 2 5 Fashion designers 2 6 Warhol 3 In popular culture 3 1 Films and television 3 2 Music 3 3 Books 4 References 5 External linksHistory Edit A close up of the hotel s signageBuilt between 1883 and 1885 and opened for initial occupation in 1884 6 8 the twelve story red brick building that is now the Hotel Chelsea was one of the city s first private apartment cooperatives 2 It was designed by Philip Hubert 9 of the firm of Hubert Pirrson amp Company in a style that has been described variously as Queen Anne Revival and Victorian Gothic 8 Among its distinctive features are the delicate flower ornamented iron balconies on its facade which were constructed by J B and J M Cornell 6 8 and its grand staircase which extends upward twelve floors Generally this staircase is only accessible to registered guests although the hotel does offer monthly tours to others At the time of its construction the building was the tallest in New York 10 Hubert and Pirsson had created a Hubert Home Club in 1880 for The Rembrandt a six story building on West 57th Street intended as housing for artists 11 This early cooperative building had rental units to help defray costs and also provided servants as part of the building staff 9 The success of this model led to other Hubert Home Clubs and the Chelsea was one of them 9 Initially successful its surrounding neighborhood constituted the center of New York s theater district 12 However within a few years the combination of economic stresses the suspicions of New York s middle class about apartment living the opening up of Upper Manhattan and the plentiful supply of houses there and the relocation of the city s theater district bankrupted the Chelsea 9 12 The building reopened as a hotel in 1905 which was later managed by Knott Hotels and resident manager A R Walty After the hotel went bankrupt it was purchased in 1939 by Joseph Gross Julius Krauss and David Bard 2 and these partners managed the hotel together until the early 1970s Stanley Bard 13 David Bard s son became manager after Gross and Krauss deaths On June 18 2007 the hotel s board of directors ousted Bard as the hotel s manager Dr Marlene Krauss the daughter of Julius Krauss and David Elder the grandson of Joseph Gross and the son of playwright and screenwriter Lonne Elder III replaced Stanley Bard with the management company BD Hotels NY that firm has since been terminated as well The hotel was sold to real estate developer Joseph Chetrit for 80 million in 2011 14 and stopped taking reservations for new guests to begin renovations 15 16 Long time residents were allowed to remain in the building some of them protected by state rent regulations 17 The renovations prompted complaints to the city by the remaining tenants of health hazards caused by the construction 18 The city s Building Department investigated these complaints and found no major violations 19 In November 2011 the management ordered all of the hotel s many artworks taken off the walls supposedly for their protection and cataloging a move which some tenants interpreted as a step towards forcing them out as well 17 In 2013 Ed Scheetz became the Chelsea Hotel s new owner after buying back five properties from Chetrit and David Bistricer 20 21 In 2016 Ira Drukier Richard Born and Sean MacPherson bought the Chelsea Hotel 22 El Quijote Hotel Chelsea at night July 2022 Located in the Chelsea since 1930 is the restaurant El Quijote which was owned by the same family until 2017 when it was sold to the new owner of the hotel In late March 2018 the eatery also closed for renovations 23 In February 2022 Hotel Chelsea and El Quijote quietly reopened 24 25 Notable residents Edit Art fills the staircase of the Hotel Chelsea 2005 Literary artists Edit During its lifetime Hotel Chelsea has provided a home to many famous writers and thinkers including Mark Twain 26 O Henry 26 Herbert Huncke 27 Dylan Thomas 4 26 Arthur C Clarke 3 Sam Shepard 28 Arthur Miller 3 4 Tennessee Williams 26 Jack Kerouac 27 Brendan Behan 28 Thomas Wolfe 28 Valerie Solanas 28 William S Burroughs 4 Allen Ginsberg 4 Quentin Crisp 29 better source needed Gregory Corso 30 Arnold Weinstein 31 Catherine Leroy 32 and James Schuyler 33 Delmore Schwartz author of In Dreams Begin Responsibilities spent the last few years of his life in seclusion at the Hotel Chelsea 34 Charles R Jackson author of The Lost Weekend died by suicide in his room on September 21 1968 35 Joseph O Neill and his wife moved there in 1998 and they raised three sons there the Chelsea Hotel plays a significant role in his novel Netherland 4 Actors and film directors Edit This section needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section Unsourced material may be challenged and removed March 2020 Learn how and when to remove this template message The hotel has been a home to actors film directors and comedians such as Stanley Kubrick Shirley Clarke Mitch Hedberg Dave Hill Milos Forman Lillie Langtry Dennis Hopper Squat Theatre Company Eddie Izzard Uma Thurman Elliott Gould Elaine Stritch Michael Imperioli Jane Fonda Russell Brand the Warhol film star Viva and her daughter Gaby Hoffmann citation needed Ethan Hawke 28 and Edie Sedgwick 4 28 The filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim who temporarily resided in the hotel portrayed the artist and long term resident of the hotel Ching Ho Cheng for his film Tally Brown New York 36 Musicians Edit Much of the Hotel Chelsea s history has been colored by the musicians who have resided there Some of the most prominent names include Chet Baker 29 better source needed Grateful Dead Nico Tom Waits Patti Smith 3 4 Jim Morrison 3 Iggy Pop Virgil Thomson Jeff Beck 37 Bob Dylan 3 4 Chick Corea 37 Alexander Frey 37 Dee Dee Ramone 37 Alice Cooper 37 Edith Piaf 37 Johnny Thunders 37 Mink DeVille 37 Alejandro Escovedo Marianne Faithfull 37 Cher 37 John Cale 37 Joni Mitchell 29 better source needed Robbie Robertson 38 Bette Midler 37 Pink Floyd 37 Jimi Hendrix 37 Canned Heat J D Stooks 37 Jacques Labouchere 37 Sid Vicious 37 Richard Barone Lance Loud and Rufus Wainwright 28 Madonna lived at the Chelsea in the early 1980s returning in 1992 to shoot photographs for her book Sex in room 822 39 Leonard Cohen who lived in room 424 and Janis Joplin 37 in room 411 had an affair there in 1968 and Cohen later wrote two songs about it Chelsea Hotel and Chelsea Hotel 2 4 40 Bob Dylan wrote the epic song Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands there and Nico s Chelsea Girls is about the hotel and its inhabitants Jobriath spent his last years in the pyramid topped apartment on the Chelsea s rooftop where he died of complications due to AIDS in August 1983 41 The Kills wrote much of their album No Wow at the Chelsea presumably between the years 2003 to 2005 42 Jorma Kaukonen wrote the song Third Week in the Chelsea for Jefferson Airplane s 1971 album Bark after spending three weeks living in the Chelsea 43 Visual artists Edit This section needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section Unsourced material may be challenged and removed March 2020 Learn how and when to remove this template message Lobby of the hotel in 2010The hotel has featured and collected the work of the many visual artists who have passed through Frank Bowling 44 Doris Chase Bernard Childs Claudio Edinger Brett Whiteley Ching Ho Cheng Larry Rivers and from 1961 to 1970 several of his French nouveau realistes friends like Yves Klein who wrote his Manifeste de l hotel Chelsea there in April 1961 4 Arman Martial Raysse Jean Tinguely Niki de Saint Phalle Christo Daniel Spoerri or Alain Jacquet who left a version of his Dejeuner sur l herbe from 1964 in the hotel lobby featuring other pieces by Larry Rivers or Arman 45 Francesco Clemente 28 Julian Schnabel 28 Joe Andoe 46 David Remfry 47 Diego Rivera Ryah Ludins 48 Robert Crumb Ellen Cantor Jasper Johns Tom Wesselmann Claes Oldenburg Herbert Gentry Willem de Kooning Stella Waitzkin 49 Robert Mapplethorpe room 1017 with Patti Smith 4 The Australian Vali Myers moved into the hotel in 1971 and remained there for 43 years 50 Moses Soyer who died there in 1974 Nora Sumberg and Henri Cartier Bresson have all spent time at the hotel Experimental filmmaker and ethnomusicologist Harry Smith lived and died in room 328 citation needed The painter Alphaeus Philemon Cole lived there for 35 years until his death in 1988 aged 112 at which point he was the oldest verified man alive 51 The sculptor Rene Shapshak and his wife lived here 52 his bust of Harry Truman and reliefs were in the lobby 53 Artist Maryan S Maryan lived there for several years and died in his hotel room in 1977 54 Fashion designers Edit Charles James credited with being America s first couturier who influenced fashion in the 1940s and 1950s moved into the Chelsea in 1964 55 He died there of pneumonia in 1978 Elizabeth Hawes a designer best remembered for her critique of the fashion industry in her book Fashion is Spinach 1938 lived in the Chelsea up until her death in 1971 56 When Billy Reid started his brand in 1998 it was a one man operation he lived in the Garment District while a room at the Chelsea served as an office studio and showroom 57 After returning to New York city in 2001 during a sabbatical Natalie Alabama Chanin spent nine months living in the Chelsea Hotel During her stay she met many friends future collaborators and designed her first collection of 200 upcycled hand sewn t shirts a project that would become Project Alabama and eventually Alabama Chanin As Chanin s career took off as a pioneer of sustainable design she continued to show her collections in rooms 409 and 411 at the Chelsea Hotel until 2003 58 non primary source needed Warhol Edit Hotel Chelsea is often associated with the Warhol superstars as Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey directed Chelsea Girls 1966 a film about his Factory regulars and their lives at the hotel In popular culture EditThis section needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section Unsourced material may be challenged and removed December 2019 Learn how and when to remove this template message Films and television Edit The hotel has been featured in Chelsea Girls 1966 by Andy Warhol was shot at the Chelsea 28 Portrait of Jason 1967 by Shirley Clarke was shot at the Chelsea 59 60 An American Family 1973 PBS an episode of the pioneering reality TV series was mostly filmed at the Chelsea Tally Brown New York 1979 by Rosa von Praunheim 36 Arena 1981 the popular BBC arts documentary series featured an episode Chelsea Hotel Sid and Nancy 1986 by Alex Cox 9 Weeks 1986 Director Adrian Lyne shot a scene on location where Mickey Rourke and Kim Basinger have a sex date with a prostitute involved Some scenes in Romeo Is Bleeding 1993 which like Sid and Nancy stars Gary Oldman were filmed and are set in the Chelsea Part of Leon The Professional 1994 by Luc Besson was shot there although it was set in an apartment block Midnight in Chelsea 1997 directed by Mark Pellington a video to a track from the 1997 Jon Bon Jovi solo album Destination Anywhere Chelsea Walls 2001 directed by Ethan Hawke a movie about a new generation of artists living at the hotel Chelsea on the Rocks 2008 a documentary film directed by Abel Ferrara 61 Hotel Chelsea 2009 a horror film about a Japanese couple staying at the hotel Dreaming Walls Inside the Chelsea Hotel 2022 a documentary executive produced by Martin Scorsese 62 63 Music Edit The hotel is featured in many songs including Sara by Bob Dylan 4 Chelsea Hotel 2 by Leonard Cohen later covered by various artists 4 Midnight in Chelsea by Bon Jovi 64 Chelsea Hotel 78 by Alejandro Escovedo 65 Chelsea Girl by Nico 4 Hotel Chelsea Nights by Ryan Adams 66 Dear Abbie by Kinky Friedman 67 Like a Drug I Never Did Before by Joey Ramone 68 The Chelsea Hotel by Graham Nash 69 Third Week in the Chelsea by Jefferson Airplane 4 Chelsea Hotel by Dan Bern 70 Twenty Third Street by Bill Morrissey 71 The Chelsea Hotel Oral Sex Song 2001 by Jeffrey Lewis 72 Chelsea Hotel on Meshell Ndegeocello s 2011 album Weather Godspeed by Anberlin on their 2007 album Cities 73 Chelsea by Phoebe Bridgers on her 2017 album Stranger in the Alps 74 Bruce Wayne Campbell Interviewed on the Roof of the Chelsea Hotel 1979 about Jobriath by Okkervil River on their 2008 album The Stand Ins references the hotel in the title but not in the lyrics 75 The End by Delacey 76 Books Edit Davis Fiona 2019 The Chelsea Girls Dutton ISBN 978 1 5247 4458 8 Hamilton Ed 2007 Legends of the Chelsea Hotel Living with the Artists and Outlaws at New York s Rebel Mecca ISBN 978 1 56858 379 2 Lough James July 2013 This Ain t No Holiday Inn Down and Out at the Chelsea Hotel 1980 1995 ISBN 978 1 936182 52 7 O Neill Joseph 2008 Netherland ISBN 978 0 00 727570 0 Ramone Dee Dee 2001 Chelsea Horror Hotel A Novel ISBN 1 56025 304 5 Rips Nicolaia 2016 Trying to Float Coming of Age in the Chelsea Hotel ISBN 978 1 5011 3298 8 Smith Patti 2010 Just Kids Ecco ISBN 978 0 06 621131 2 Tippins Sherill 2013 Inside the Dream Palace the Life and Times of New York s Legendary Chelsea Hotel Simon amp Schuster ISBN 978 0 7432 9561 1 Turner Florence 1987 At the Chelsea ISBN 978 0 15 109780 7 Wielaert Jeroen 2002 Chelsea Hotel een Biografie van een Hotel in Dutch ISBN 90 76927 02 2 Edinger Claudio 1983 Chelsea Hotel photobook by Claudio Edinger and texts by Arthur C Clark and William Burroughs ISBN 0 89659 338 X References Edit a b National Register Information System National Register of Historic Places National Park Service March 13 2009 a b c Regier Hilda Chelsea Hotel in Jackson Kenneth T ed 1995 The Encyclopedia of New York City New Haven Yale University Press ISBN 0300055366 p 210 a b c d e f g h Famous residents of the Chelsea Hotel The Telegraph London August 2 2011 a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r The 10 best Chelsea hotel moments by Hermione Hoby The Guardian December 19 2010 Miller Arthur The Chelsea Affect Granta 78 Bad Company Summer 2002 a b c New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission Dolkart Andrew S Postal Matthew A 2009 Postal Matthew A ed Guide to New York City Landmarks 4th ed New York John Wiley amp Sons ISBN 978 0 470 28963 1 p 70 Gobrecht Lawrence E April 20 1977 National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Hotel Chelsea Archived from the original on October 8 2012 Retrieved February 21 2010 and Accompanying three photos exterior from 1977 Archived October 8 2012 at the Wayback Machine a b c White Norval amp Willensky Elliot 2000 AIA Guide to New York City 4th ed New York Three Rivers Press ISBN 978 0 8129 3107 5 p 181 a b c d Nevius Michelle amp Nevius James 2009 Inside the Apple A Streetwise History of New York City New York Free Press ISBN 141658997X p 151 Rich Nathaniel October 8 2013 Where The Walls Still Talk Vanity Fair Retrieved October 10 2013 Gray Christopher August 15 2004 Streetscapes Philip Gengembre Hubert The 19th Century Innovator Who Invented the Co op The New York Times Retrieved June 27 2019 a b Federal Writers Project 1939 New York City Guide New York Random House ISBN 978 1 60354 055 1 Reprinted by Scholarly Press 1976 often referred to as WPA Guide to New York City p 153 Stanley Bard Former Owner and Manager of The Chelsea Hotel Dies at 82 by Ed Hamilton chelseahotelblog com February 14 2017 Carmin Craig May 16 2011 Hotel Chelsea s New Proprietor The Wall Street Journal Retrieved August 21 2011 Buckley Cara July 31 2011 A Last Night Among the Spirits at the Chelsea Hotel The New York Times Retrieved August 21 2011 Rovzar Chris July 27 2011 Hotel Chelsea No Longer Taking Reservations New York Retrieved November 4 2017 a b Kilgannon Corey November 4 2011 City Room First No More Guests Now Chelsea Hotel Says No More Art The New York Times Prendergast Daniel Connor Tracy October 22 2011 Chelsea Hotel demolition sparks Buildings Dept probe after complaints from furious residents New York Daily News 1 permanent dead link A New View at Chelsea Hotel The Wall Street Journal August 27 2013 King amp Grove reneges on Hotel Chelsea eviction vow Tenants The Real Deal September 17 2013 Hotel Chelsea sale the latest in a string of deals for Born Drukier and MacPherson by Anthony Noto New York Business Journal November 2 2016 Barron James March 29 2018 At El Quijote One Last Helping of Charm Kitsch and Memories The New York Times El Quijote Retrieved February 24 2022 Hotel Chelsea Retrieved February 24 2022 a b c d Chamberlain Lisa June 19 2007 Change at the Chelsea Shelter of the Arts The New York Times Retrieved August 26 2022 For six decades the Bard family has managed the Hotel Chelsea overseeing a bohemian enclave that has been a long term home for writers artists and musicians including Mark Twain O Henry Tennessee Williams Dylan Thomas Andy Warhol and Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen a b 10 great places to get on the road and feel the Beat USA Today March 10 2006 Accessed December 16 2007 On the West Side Kerouac and then wife Joan Haverty lived at 454 W 20th St where he began writing her a long letter about his recent travels while she waited tables to support them The letter became On the Road the bible of the Beat generation He wrote the book itself at the Hotel Chelsea later the last home of Herbert Huncke This account of On the Road is disputed by Jeff Wallenfeldt in an article for Encyclopaedia Britannica 11 or 12 Things Remembered Well About the Chelsea Hotel a b c d e f g h i j Legends of Hotel Chelsea chronicled in new book that covers what inspired Andy Warhol relegated Sid Vicious to junkies floor before he killed Nancy review by Sherryl Connelly of Inside the Dream Palace The Life and Times of New York s Legendary Chelsea Hotel New York Daily News November 16 2013 a b c 2 dead link Chelsea Hotel New York review A story behind every door by Barry Divola traveller com au undated Midgette Anne September 6 2005 Arnold Weinstein 78 a Poet and Collaborator on Operas Is Dead The New York Times Hamilton Ed July 12 2006 Catherine Leroy 1946 2006 chelseahotelblog com Retrieved September 28 2017 Koestenbaum Wayne 1996 Wayne Koestenbaum on James Schuyler Atlas James 1977 Delmore Schwartz The Life of An American Poet New York Farrar Straus Giroux pp 330 331 ISBN 978 0374137618 Weekend in the Sun by Blake Bailey Vanity Fair February 28 2013 a b Ching Ho Cheng David Zwirner Gallery 2021 Retrieved December 27 2021 a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r The Pretty Reckless Music Video in NYC Onthesetofnewyork com Myers Marc November 29 2016 The Weight by the Band s Robbie Robertson The Wall Street Journal Hamilton Ed 2007 Legends of the Chelsea Hotel New York Thunder s Mouth Press pp XV 151 ISBN 978 1 56858 379 2 OCLC 680628325 How Leonard Cohen Met Janis Joplin Inside Legendary Chelsea Hotel Encounter by Jordan Runtagh Rolling Stone November 14 2016 Jobriath Oh You pretty thing by Johann Hari The Independent 13 April 2004 The Kills on No Wow on YouTube Yahoo Backspin Jefferson Airplane s Paul Kantner We were like Columbus exploring the world amp thinsp by Nick Hasted Uncut January 29 2016 Holly Williams August 5 2012 Chroma chameleon The bright essence of Frank Bowling s paintings floods his London home The Independent Retrieved August 18 2019 Chelsea Hotel by Carter Tomassi messyoptics com Finnerty Amy August 19 2007 Jubilee City A Memoir at Full Speed Joe Andoe Books Review The New York Times Retrieved November 29 2017 In The Studio David Remfry by Harry Mount The Telegraph 6 December 2005 Bartlett Eliot 1989 Anchor to Windward Harlackenden Press p 38 Stella Waitzkin Kohler Foundation The Australian photographer inside a sanctuary for rebels by Cat Woods The Sydney Morning Herald 7 August 2020 preview of Tony Notarberardino s photo collection Chelsea Portraits Kimmelman Michael November 26 1988 Alphaeus Cole a Portraitist 112 The New York Times Retrieved December 5 2007 Dowd Maureen November 21 1983 The Chelsea Hotel Kooky Buy sic Nice Turns 100 The New York Times Who Will Remember The Shapshaks chelseahotelblog com September 14 2007 Maryan Artists Venus Over Manhattan Venusovermanhattan com Retrieved May 8 2023 Charles James s Chelsea Archival Evidence of an Artist s Life on 23rd Street by Caitlin McCarthy Metropolitan Museum of Art November 30 2016 Elizabeth Hawes Dress Designer Is Dead at 66 The New York Times September 7 1971 ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved February 3 2023 Made in America Four Fashion Designers on What It Takes To Do So Laurie Brookins The Hollywood Reporter 20 July 2017 Brooklyn to Chelsea alabamachanin com Retrieved September 21 2021 Portrait of Jason Project Shirley Volume 2 milestonefilms com One Man Saved From Invisibility The New York Times April 14 2013 Hotel Chelsea Rock s Vortex Of Death and Destruction by Scott Hill Wired May 25 2008 Dreaming Walls Inside the Chelsea Hotel Review An Elegy for the Bohemian Mystique by Owen Gleiberman Variety July 9 2022 Reviews Dreaming Walls Inside the Chelsea Hotel by Marya E Gates RogerEbert com July 8 2022 Doors from New York City s famed Chelsea Hotel head to auction CBS News April 7 2018 Alejandro Escovedo s Chelsea Hotel 78 by Rick Cornell Indy Week October 22 2008 Ryan Adams Guide to New York City by Steven Edelstone The New York Observer July 10 2017 Dear Abbie lyrics Genius com Like a Drug I Never Did Before lyrics Genius com The Chelsea Hotel lyrics Genius com Dan Bern Chelsea Hotel Genius com Retrieved August 9 2023 Bill Morrissey Something I Saw or Thought I Saw Billmorrissey net Retrieved August 9 2023 Lyrics of The Chelsea Hotel Oral Sex Song by Jeffrey Lewis Genius com Lyrics Godspeed by Anberlin Genius com Lyrics Chelsea by Phoebe Bridgers Genius com Lyrics Bruce Wayne Campbell Interviewed on the Roof of the Chelsea Hotel 1979 by Okkervil River Genius com Lyrics The End by Delacey Genius comExternal links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Hotel Chelsea Official website Chelsea Hotel New York Architecture images 360 Panoramas of Chelsea Hotel before 2011 2012 renovations Ed Hamilton One of the last Chelsea Hotel Bohemians The Somerville Times January 30 2013 Portals Hotels New York City Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Hotel Chelsea amp oldid 1169567807, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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