Hotel Chelsea, 8 x 10, New York City, Print

The Hotel Chelsea, also known as the Chelsea Hotel or the Chelsea, is a historic New York City hotel and landmark, noted for its history of notable residents. This photograph is from 1989. Located at 222 West 23rd Street, between Seventh and Eighth Avenues, in the Manhattan neighbourhood of Chelsea, the 250-unit hotel has been the home of numerous writers, musicians, artists, and actors, including Bob Dylan, Virgil Thomson, Charles Bukowski, Janis Joplin, Patti Smith, Leonard Cohen, Iggy Pop, Jobriath, Robert Mapplethorpe and Larry Rivers. Though the Hotel Chelsea no longer accepts new long-term residencies, the building is still home to many residents who lived there before the change of policy. Presently, transient guests are limited to a maximum stay of 24 nights. Sir Arthur C. Clarke wrote 2001: A Space Odyssey 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 was staying when he died of alcohol poisoning on November 9, 1953, and where Nancy Spungen, girlfriend of Sid Vicious of a British Rock Band, was found stabbed to death on October 12, 1978. The building has been a designated New York City landmark since 1966, and on the National Register of Historic Places since 1977