RECOMMENDED: Chelsea Hotel history article - "An Oral History of the Chelsea Hotel" / 2013.10.08.



The Hotel Chelsea is a hotel in Manhattan, New York City, built between 1883 and 1885.
 

Where The Walls Still Talk

Tales from the legendary hotel-slash-commune that housed Jackson Pollock, Dylan Thomas, Arthur Miller, Bob Dylan, Robert Mapplethorpe, Patti Smith, and Sid Vicious—told by residents like Rufus Wainwright, Betsey Johnson, R. Crumb, and Andy Warhol.

BY NATHANIEL RICH

 

Additional content added later (2023):

>>> New photography exhibition tells the story of the Chelsea Hotel