Hotel Chelsea

Screw the Plaza. No New York City hotel is more notorious, bohemian and steeped in the city's history than the Hotel Chelsea. Built in 1883, the red brick edifice takes up a chunk of the block of 23rd Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues and has been home to a significant number of artists, writers, musicians and other assorted figures of the counter culture.

Mark Twain stayed here. Dylan Thomas not only stayed here, he died here after a night of drinking at the White Horse Tavern. Arthur C. Clark wrote 2001: A Space Odyssey here. William Burroughs stayed here. Also Alan Ginsberg, Quentin Crisp, Charles Bukowski, Tennessee Williams and Jean-Paul Sartre all stayed here. So did Patti Smith, Dee Dee Ramone, Henri Chopin, Edith Piaf, Janis Joplin and Jimmy Hendrix.

The novelist Charles R. Jackson committed suicide here. And Sid Vicious allegedly stabbed his girlfriend Nancy Spungen here.

Some people claim to have seen the ghosts of Dylan Thomas and Sid Vicious here. No word on any less famous spirits.

And if you need a description of the rooms, you probably don’t want to stay here. Although, they did recently add Wi-Fi service.

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