The Hotel Chelsea

The Hotel Chelsea is a world renowned residence for artists, musicians, writers, philosophers, and characters of the most singular and eccentric stripe which the imagination might conjure. A place where the global “cool elite” can feel comfortable with there own kind.

Over the years the guest list has included a 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 very 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. Writer Dylan Thomas died of alcohol poisoning on in 1953, and where Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols first started a fire and later stabbed his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen, to death on October 12, 1978.

The hotel is located at 222 West 23rd Street, between Seventh and Eighth Avenues, in the Chelsea neighborhood its named after it. It is near the Jacob K. Javits Center, Empire State Building, Midtown, Greenwich Village, and other NYC attractions. Built in 1883, the hotel welcomes guests, but is primarily known for its long-term residents, past and present. Complimentary Wi-Fi is available in all guest rooms of the Chelsea Hotel.

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