Story telling – Hotel Chelsea / New York / USA

Great things are easy to find in NY:

And a venerable piece of New York City history is the historical story telling hotel Chelsea.

The Hotel Chelsea was built in 1830 and been the host to more musicians, artists, thinkers, literary giants, and intellectuals than it would be prudent to list. We love the Big apple, which is always fun and tried, again and again the “Chelsea”. Its still amazing.
You know all the stories Arthur Miller had here a fight with Marylin and Mark Twain stayed in the hotel. It was always been a center of artistic and bohemian activity and it houses artwork created by many of the artists who have visited. The hotel was the first building to be listed by New York City as a cultural preservation site and historic building of note. The twelve-story red-brick building that now houses the Hotel Chelsea was built in 1883 as a private apartment cooperative that opened in 1884; it was the tallest building in New York until 1899. At the time Chelsea, and particularly the street on which the hotel was located, was the center of New York’s Theater District. However, within a few years the combination of economic worries and the relocation of the theaters bankrupted the Chelsea cooperative. In 1905, the building was purchased and opened as a hotel.
Owing to its long list of famous guests and residents, the hotel has an ornate history, both as a birth place of creative modern art and home of bad behavior. Bob Dylan composed songs while staying at the Chelsea, and poets Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso chose it as a place for philosophical and intellectual exchange. It is also known as the place where the writer Dylan Thomas died of alcohol poisoning on in 1953, and where Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols may have stabbed his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen, to death on October 12, 1978.

Famous visitors and residents of the Chelsea Hotel include Eugene O’Neil, Thomas Wolfe, and Arthur C. Clarke (who wrote 2001: A Space Oddyssey while in residence). Janis Joplin, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, and the Grateful Dead passed through the hotels doors in the 1960s. Patti Smith, Arthur Miller, Dylan Thomas, Quentin Crisp, and many, many others stayed here too.
Though the hotel is no longer available for long-term residents, it formerly served as a home for many of its illustrious guests. Sydney Pollack’s final film “The Interpreter” was filmed here in 2005, starring Nicole Kidman, and including an infamous wrist-slashing scene.

You must and will like it, even if you do not like the movie.