The Chelsea Hotel - also called the Chelsea Hotel , or just Chelsea - is a historic New York City hotel and landmark built between 1883 and 1885, known especially for the notation of its inhabitants over the years. The 250-unit hotel is located at 222 West 23rd Street, between Seventh and Eighth Avenues, in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan. The building has been designated a New York City landmark since 1966, and on the National Register of Historic Places since 1977.
It has been home to many writers, musicians, artists, and actors. Although Chelsea no longer accepts new long-term residencies, the building is still home to many people living there before the change in policy. Arthur C. Clarke wrote 2001: A Space Odyssey while living in Chelsea, and poets Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso chose him as a place for philosophical and artistic exchange. He is also known as the place where writer Dylan Thomas lived in room 205 when he died of pneumonia on November 9, 1953, and where Nancy Spungen, girlfriend of Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols, was found stabbed to death on October 12. , 1978. Arthur Miller wrote a short section, "The Chelsea Affect", describing life at the Chelsea Hotel in the early 1960s.
Since August 1, 2011, the hotel was closed due to renovations. It will reopen in 2018.
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History
Built between 1884 and 1885 and opened for early occupation in 1884, the twelve-story red-brick building that is now the Chelsea Hotel is one of the city's first private apartment cooperatives. It was designed by Philip Hubert of Hubert, Pirrson & amp; The company is in a style that has been described in various ways as Queen Anne Revival and Gothic Victorian. Among its distinctive features are beautiful flowered iron ornamental balconies on its facade, built by J.B. and J.M. Cornell and its enormous staircase, which extends upwards of twelve floors. Generally, these stairs can only be accessed by registered guests, although the hotel offers monthly tours to others. At the time of construction, the building was the highest in New York.
Hubert and Pirsson had created "Hubert Home Club" in 1880 for "The Rembrandt", a six-story building on West 57th Street that was intended as a housing for artists. The initial co-operative building has a rental unit to help finance the costs, and also provides helpers as part of the building staff. The success of this model led to other "Hubert Home Clubs", and Chelsea was one of them. Initially successful, the surrounding neighborhood is the center of New York's theater district. But within a few years the combination of economic pressure, New York middle-class suspicions about apartment life, the opening of Upper Manhattan and the stocks of many homes there, and the relocation of the city's theater district made Chelsea bankrupt.
The building was 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, and these partners managed the hotel together until the early 1970s. With the deaths of Joseph Gross and Julius Krauss, management fell to Stanley Bard (1934-2017), son of David Bard.
On June 18, 2007, the board of directors of the hotel overthrew Bard as hotel manager. Dr. Marlene Krauss, daughter Julius Krauss, and David Elder, grandson of Joseph Gross and son of playwright and screenwriter Lonne Elder III, succeeded Stanley Bard with management company BD Hotels NY; the company has been stopped as well.
In May 2011, the hotel was sold to real estate developer Joseph Chetrit for US $ 80 million.
Beginning August 1, 2011, the hotel stops taking reservations for guests to start renovations; However, long-time residents remain in the building, some of them protected by state lease regulations. The renovation raises a complaint by the residual tenant of the health hazards caused by the construction. It was investigated by the city's Building Department, which found no major violations. In November 2011, management ordered all the hotels a lot of artwork taken from the wall, which was supposed to be for their protection and cataloging, a move that some tenants interpreted as a move to force them out as well. In 2013, Ed Scheetz became the new owner of Chelsea Hotel after repurchasing five properties from Joseph Chetrit, a partner at King & amp; Grove Hotel, and David Bistricer. The Hotel Chelsea plans to reopen in 2018. Also located in Chelsea since 1930 is the El Quijote restaurant (renowned for its favorite heaping section of Spanish cuisine and kitsch decoration with paintings of titular novels and statues of quixotic knights in abound) owned by the family the same until 2017 when it is sold to the new owners of the hotel. At the end of March 2018 the restaurant is also closed for renovation.
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Famous citizen
Literary artist
During his lifetime, the Chelsea Hotel has provided home to many renowned writers and thinkers including Mark Twain, O. Henry, Herbert Huncke, Dylan Thomas, Arthur C. Clarke, Sam Shepard, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Jack Kerouac (writing > On the Road there), Brendan Behan, Thomas Wolfe, Valerie Solanas, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Arnold Weinstein, Sharmagne Leland-St. John, Quartin Crisp, Gore Vidal, Robert Hunter, Jack Gantos, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Charles Bukowski, Jan Cremer, Henk Hofland, Raymond Kennedy, Matthew Richardson, James T. Farrell, Mary Cantwell, Rene Ricard, Brad Gooch and RK Narayan.
Charles R. Jackson, author of The Lost Weekend, committed suicide in his room on September 21, 1968. Joseph O'Neill and his wife moved there in 1998, and they raised three sons there; Chelsea Hotel plays an important role in his novel Dutch .
Actor and film director
The hotel has been home to actors and film directors like Stanley Kubrick, Shirley Clarke, Mitch Hedberg, Dave Hill, Milo? Forman, Lillie Langtry, Ethan Hawke, Dennis Hopper, Eddie Izzard, Uma Thurman, Elliott Gould, Elaine Stritch, Michael Imperioli, Jane Fonda, Russell Brand, Warhol Viva movie star and Edie Sedgwick.
Musician
Much of the history of the Chelsea Hotel has been colored by musicians who have lived or visited there. Some of the most prominent names include Grateful Dead, Nico, Tom Waits, Patti Smith, Jim Morrison, Iggy Pop, Virgil Thomson, Chick Corea, Jeff Beck, Dee Dee Ramone, Johnny Thunders, Mink DeVille, Marianne Faithfull, Cher, John Cale, ÃÆ' â € ° dith Piaf, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Alice Cooper, Bette Midler, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, Canned Heat, Sid Vicious, and Rufus Wainwright. Madonna lived in Chelsea in the early 1980s, back in 1992 to take a photo for her book, Sex In Room 822. Leonard Cohen, who lived in room 424, and Janis Joplin, in room 411, having an affair there in 1968, and Cohen then wrote two songs about it, "Chelsea Hotel" and "Chelsea Hotel # 2".
Visual artists
The hotel displays and collects works from many of the visual artists that have passed through. Doris Chase, Bernard Childs, Claudio Edinger, Brett Whiteley, Ching Ho Cheng, Larry Rivers, and from 1961 to 1970, some French friends, such as Yves Klein (who wrote his book Manifeste de l'hÃÆ'Â'tel Chelsea there in April 1961), Arman, Martial Raysse, Jean Tinguely, Niki de Saint-Phalle, Christo, Daniel Spoerri or Alain Jacquet (who left his version of DÃÆ' Â © jeuner sur l'herbe Fashion designer
Charles James, credited with being the first couturier in America that influenced fashion in the 1940s and 1950s, moved to Chelsea in 1964. He died there because of pneumonia in 1978.
Warhol
Chelsea hotels are often associated with Warhol superstars, such as Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey directing Chelsea Girls (1966), a film about their regular customers at the Factory and their lives at the hotel.
More
Some survivors of Titanic stayed for some time in this hotel because it was a short distance from Pier 54, the White Star Line jetty where Titanic should be anchored. Chelsea is also home to many sailors who returned from their duties in World War I.
In popular culture
Movies and TV
This hotel has been featured in:
Music
The hotel is featured in many songs, including:
Books
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Hamilton, Ed. Legends of the Chelsea Hotel: Live with Artists and Outlaws at New York's Rebel Mecca . ISBNÃ, 978-1-56858-379-2 - Lough, James. It's Not No Holiday Inn: Get off and Get Out at Chelsea Hotel 1980-1995 . ISBN: 1936182521.
- Ramone, Dee Dee. Chelsea Horror Hotel: Novel A . ISBNÃ, 1-56025-304-5.
- Tippins, Sherill (2013). Inside the Dream Castle: Life and Times of the New York Legendary Chelsea Hotel . Simon & amp; Schuster. ISBN: 0743295617.
- Turner, Florence. At The Chelsea . ISBN 978-0151097807. Ã,
- Wielaert, Jeroen. Hotel Chelsea, een Biografie van een Hotel (in Dutch). ISBNÃ, 90-76927-02-2
- Rips, Nicolaia. Trying to Float; Coming from Age at Chelsea Hotel . 2016. ISBN 978-1-5011-3298-8.
References
External links
- Chelsea Hotel - a picture of New York's Architecture
- 360 ° Panoramic from Chelsea Hotel before 2011-2012 renovation
- "Ed Hamilton: One of Chelsea's last Hotel Bohemians". The Somerville News . January 30, 2013
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