Editing Hotel Chelsea (section)

== Impact ==

=== Critical reception ===

==== Cultural commentary ====
''[[Life (magazine)|Life]]'' magazine characterized the hotel in 1964 as "New York's most illustrious third-rate hotel";<ref name="Cheshes 2022a" /> the same year, ''The New York Times'' described the Chelsea Hotel as having "long represented the cultural mood that is now spreading through the West 20s".<ref>{{Cite news |date=May 16, 1964 |title=Culture Breathing New Life Into Old Neighborhood; Chelsea Reviving an Elegant Past; Culture and Renovation Are Changing a Neighborhood of Rundown Tenements |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/05/16/archives/culture-breathing-new-life-into-old-neighborhood-chelsea-reviving-a.html |access-date=October 17, 2023 |archive-date=October 21, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231021222922/https://www.nytimes.com/1964/05/16/archives/culture-breathing-new-life-into-old-neighborhood-chelsea-reviving-a.html |url-status=live}}</ref> Another journalist called the hotel in 1965 an "Ellis Island of the avant-garde".<ref name="Cheshes 2022" /> A ''[[Boston Globe]]'' reporter said that, while the hotel was internally known as an artists' residence, "those on the outside are confused by the names and the rococo facade of stories that have dragged the Chelsea down like an old roue to the bottom of history".<ref name="West 1968" /> Donna Hilts of ''[[The Washington Post]]'' wrote in 1975 that "the beatnik '50s, the hip '60s, the freaky '70s—each found a way of appreciating the freedom, the tradition and the old rug coziness of the Chelsea".<ref name="Hilts 1975" /> [[Paul Goldberger]] of ''The New York Times'' wrote in 1981 that the Chelsea "has had a history that is something of a cross between the Algonquin Hotel and a crash pad",<ref name="Goldberger 1981">{{cite web |last=Goldberger |first=Paul |title=Exploring Restored Chelsea, an Area on the Way Up |website=[[The New York Times]] |date=January 16, 1981 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/01/16/arts/exploring-restored-chelsea-an-area-on-the-way-up.html |access-date=October 20, 2023 |archive-date=May 24, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150524083434/http://www.nytimes.com/1981/01/16/arts/exploring-restored-chelsea-an-area-on-the-way-up.html |url-status=live}}</ref> and British reporter [[Peter Ackroyd]] wrote in 1983 that the Chelsea was reputed as "one of the least stuffy hotels in New York".<ref name="Ackroyd 1983" /> A ''Chicago Tribune'' reporter said in 1983 that the Chelsea "has certainly set standards of its own".<ref name="Fleming 1983">{{cite news |id={{ProQuest|170532860}} |title=Hotel Chelsea celebrates a centennial of the bizarre and controversial |last=Fleming |first=Robert |date=December 11, 1983 |pages=J8, J9 |work=[[Chicago Tribune]]}}</ref>

In 1993, ''The New York Times'' wrote: "Stubbornly resistant to change, the Chelsea is—still—hip."<ref name="Nathan 1993" /> The same reporter described the hotel as a "Tower of Babel of creativity and bad behavior" that nonetheless remained successful.<ref name="Paul 1994" /><ref name="Nathan 1993">{{cite web |first=Jean |last=Nathan |title=Within the Walls of the Chelsea |website=[[The New York Times]] |date=February 7, 1993 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/02/07/style/within-the-walls-of-the-chelsea.html |access-date=October 20, 2023 |archive-date=May 26, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150526084902/http://www.nytimes.com/1993/02/07/style/within-the-walls-of-the-chelsea.html |url-status=live}}</ref> In 1995, ''[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]'' contrasted the hotel with the more upscale [[Algonquin Hotel]] in [[Midtown Manhattan]], which was also known for its literary scene.<ref>{{Cite news |title=On Tap: Literary Lights: Watering Holes in Lower Manhattan Illuminate Another Side of America's Literary Capital. Pull Up a Chair, and Drink in the Legend – at the White Horse, Lion's Head, or Chumley's |last=Bunch |first=Will |work= The Philadelphia Inquirer |date=November 26, 1995 |page=T.4 |id={{ProQuest|1841045047}}}}</ref> ''The Washington Post'' described the hotel's lax management in 1999 as "a factor that attracted a stellar crop of artists in its century of operation",<ref name="Miller 1999" /> while a ''[[GQ]]'' writer said the same year that "there are two Statues of Liberty on New York—the one for immigrants out by Ellis Island and the one for weirdos at 222 West 23rd Street".<ref name="Vowell 1999" /> In the 2000s, the ''[[Irish Times]]'' said that the Chelsea was "reputed to be the last Bohemian place on earth".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Martin |first=Emer |date=February 3, 2001 |title=Heartbreak Hotel The Chelsea Hotel, New York |page=72 |work=The Irish Times |id={{ProQuest|309330658}}}}</ref> ''Variety'' described the hotel as having "long been synonymous with the bohemian scene",<ref name="Felperin 2008">{{cite web |last=Felperin |first=Leslie |date=May 24, 2008 |title=Chelsea on the Rocks |url=https://variety.com/2008/film/markets-festivals/chelsea-on-the-rocks-1200522099/ |access-date=October 13, 2023 |website=Variety |archive-date=October 21, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231021222922/https://variety.com/2008/film/markets-festivals/chelsea-on-the-rocks-1200522099/ |url-status=live}}</ref> and ''[[The Advertiser (Adelaide)|The Advertiser]]'' of [[Adelaide]] wrote that "The Chelsea exists as a microcosm of New York."<ref name="Leve 2007" />

''[[The New York Observer]]'' wrote in 2010 that the Chelsea's "hulking physicality" distinguished the hotel from neighboring structures, though "it's the litany of cultural touchstones in (or formerly in) residence that makes it the Chelsea".<ref name="Turner 2010" /> According to ''[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]]'', the hotel "had something that no amount of money or interior decoration could buy: a singular style and a unique legend".<ref name="Brown 2021" /> Sherill Tippins said in 2022, "It's hard to imagine what American culture would be like if we hadn't had the Chelsea. It's an enormous factory of creative thought and ideas."<ref name="Cho 2022" /> ''The New York Times'' compared the [[Christodora House]] in the [[East Village, Manhattan|East Village]] to the Hotel Chelsea,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Williams |first=Alex |date=August 31, 2016 |title=How the Christodora House Became the Chelsea Hotel of the East Village |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/01/fashion/christodora-house-east-village-book.html |access-date=October 14, 2023 |archive-date=October 7, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221007160430/http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/01/fashion/christodora-house-east-village-book.html |url-status=live}}</ref> and ''Town and Country'' described the hotel as "a symbol of New York City's vibrant culture".<ref>{{cite web | last=Li | first=William | title=The Best Room At... Hotel Chelsea | website=Town & Country | date=April 16, 2024 | url=https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/travel-guide/a60501419/hotel-chelsea-new-york-review/ | access-date=September 8, 2024}}</ref>

==== Architectural and hotel commentary ====
When the hotel was completed, a writer for the ''New-York Tribune'' regarded the hotel's "finish and appointments" as a "very close second" to that of the Navarro Flats on Central Park South,<ref>{{Cite news |date=November 23, 1884 |title=Some Men About Town |page=3 |work=New-York Tribune |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/new-york-tribune-some-men-about-town/133546323/ |access-date=October 16, 2023 |archive-date=October 21, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231021222924/https://www.newspapers.com/article/new-york-tribune-some-men-about-town/133546323/ |url-status=live}}</ref> while the ''[[Courier Journal]]'' described the Chelsea as "the latest triumph of civilization".<ref name="Archard 1885" /> According to [[David Goodman Croly]], the building's design signified the fact that New Yorkers had become "more capable of organization, more sociable, more gregarious than before".<ref name="Tippins p. 31" /> [[The Sun (New York City)|''The Sun'']] wrote that the Chelsea was one of numerous "living temples of humanity" that could be used as a model for urban apartment living.<ref name="Tippins p. 32" />

In the mid-20th century, the hotel's decor was the subject of negative commentary. Yevgeny Yevtushenko likened the smell of his room to the [[Dachau concentration camp]],<ref name="The New York Times 1978" /><ref name="Brown 2021" /> and Arthur Miller said the decor was more akin to "Guatemalan maybe, or outer Queens" than a "grand hotel".<ref name="Brown 2021" /> Donna Hilts said in 1975 that the hotel's brick facade "reminds a visitor of a Victorian dowager, down on her luck, cracked and faded, but still trying to keep up appearances".<ref name="Hilts 1975" /> The Associated Press wrote in 1978 that the hotel's lobby was "singularly unprepossessing", with tenants' art juxtaposed with the original fireplace,<ref name="Newsday 1978" /> while a ''[[Newsday]]'' reporter described the space as "a museum of the anarchic monstrosities of the 1960s".<ref name="Colford 1983" /> Paul Goldberger praised the architecture but disliked its neon sign, saying that "the building is so strong as a work of architecture that the sign compromises it not a bit".<ref name="Goldberger 1981" /> Ackroyd said in 1983 that his room was "not particularly comfortable [but] has a grim {{As written|splend|our}} of its own".<ref name="Ackroyd 1983" />

Terry Trucco wrote for ''The New York Times'' in 1991 that her room "got plenty of light and was oddly cheerful", though she described the furniture as old and the bathroom as "ghastly";<ref>{{cite web |last=Trucco |first=Terry |title=Manhattan for Under $100 a Night |website=[[The New York Times]] |date=October 6, 1991 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/10/06/travel/manhattan-for-under-100-a-night.html |access-date=October 20, 2023 |archive-date=October 21, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231021222923/https://www.nytimes.com/1991/10/06/travel/manhattan-for-under-100-a-night.html?searchResultPosition=1 |url-status=live}}</ref> a writer for ''[[The Boston Globe]]'' said the same year that the corridors felt like "an institution in long decline".<ref name="Bartlett 1991" /> A writer for ''[[The Palm Beach Post]]'', reviewing the hotel in 1996, said that the rooms were large but "not especially clean".<ref>{{Cite news |title=Chelsea Culture, Shopping, Sports Complex Revive Area |first=Charles |last=Passy |work=The Palm Beach Post |date=December 1, 1996 |page=1I |id={{ProQuest|321892918}}}}</ref> ''The New York Times'' wrote in 1998 that the hotel's hallways resembled a street in Venice or Rome and that the apartments were "furnished in an artistic collision of styles".<ref name="Gray 1998" /> ''[[The Observer]]'' of London called the Chelsea's lobby "an overgrown taxidermist's Valhalla" in 2000.<ref name="Cale 2000" /> The ''[[Poughkeepsie Journal]]'' wrote in 2002 that the Chelsea stood "in the middle of the block with an air of quiet dignity", with its balconies being its most prominent feature.<ref name="Sell 2002" /> A ''New York Times'' reviewer wrote in 2005 that, despite the hotel's worn-down condition, its "grungy elegance" was preferable to chain hotels' "soulless architecture".<ref name="Lee 2005" />

After the hotel reopened in 2022, the ''[[Financial Times]]'' wrote, "Depending on one's nostalgist leanings, the new Hotel Chelsea is either a travesty of history, or instantly on the must-do list."<ref name="Shollenbarger 2022" /> A critic for ''[[Condé Nast Traveler]]'' wrote, "The design isn't too flashy, isn't too rock-and-roll, isn't too homey, yet it has a lick of each of these elements."<ref name="Condé Nast Traveler 2019" /> The first edition of the [[Michelin Guide|Michelin Keys Guide]], in 2024, ranked the Hotel Chelsea as a "one-key" hotel, the third-highest accolade granted by the guide.<ref>{{cite web |last=Elbaba |first=Julia |date=April 25, 2024 |title=Here are the four top NYC hotels, according to the Michelin Guide |url=https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/four-nyc-hotels-receive-top-honor-michelin-key-hotels-2024/5353643/ |access-date=June 14, 2024 |website=NBC New York |archive-date=June 13, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240613162910/https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/four-nyc-hotels-receive-top-honor-michelin-key-hotels-2024/5353643/ |url-status=live|postscript=none}}; {{Cite web |last=Weaver |first=Shaye |date=April 24, 2024 |title=These NYC hotels were just awarded Michelin 'Keys' |url=https://www.timeout.com/newyork/news/27-new-york-city-hotels-have-been-awarded-michelin-keys-042424 |access-date=June 14, 2024 |website=Time Out New York |archive-date=June 15, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240615003706/https://www.timeout.com/newyork/news/27-new-york-city-hotels-have-been-awarded-michelin-keys-042424 |url-status=live}}</ref> The same year, ''[[Suitcase (magazine)|Suitcase]]'' magazine wrote that "the spirit of Philip Hubert's socialist-leaning vision [was] very much alive", with many of the original architectural decorations being retained.<ref name="Suitcase 2024" />

=== Popular culture ===
[[File:Chelseahotelstairs2.JPG|thumb|The hotel's stairs]]
The Chelsea has been the setting or inspiration for many works of popular media.<ref name="Cheshes 2022" /> In addition, many art events and photography shoots have taken place at the hotel, and several films have been shot there as well.<ref name="Joyce 2009" />

==== Films and television ====
The hotel has been featured in several documentaries. Its history was chronicled in the 2008 documentary ''[[Chelsea on the Rocks]]'', directed by [[Abel Ferrara]],<ref name="Felperin 2008" /><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Thill |first=Scott |title=Hotel Chelsea: Rock's Vortex Of 'Death and Destruction' |magazine=[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]] |url=https://www.wired.com/2008/05/chelsea-hotel-r/ |access-date=October 13, 2023 |archive-date=July 5, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230705061334/https://www.wired.com/2008/05/chelsea-hotel-r/ |url-status=live}}</ref> and the 2022 documentary ''Dreaming Walls: Inside the Chelsea Hotel'', executive-produced by [[Martin Scorsese]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gleiberman |first=Owen |date=July 10, 2022 |title='Dreaming Walls: Inside the Chelsea Hotel' Review: An Elegy for the Bohemian Mystique |url=https://variety.com/2022/film/reviews/dreaming-walls-review-chelsea-hotel-1235312189/ |access-date=October 13, 2023 |website=Variety |archive-date=July 5, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230705061336/https://variety.com/2022/film/reviews/dreaming-walls-review-chelsea-hotel-1235312189/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Bradshaw |first=Peter |date=January 18, 2023 |title=Dreaming Walls review – Chelsea Hotel's window on last days of bohemia -GB |work=[[The Guardian]] |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/jan/18/dreaming-walls-review-chelsea-hotels-window-on-last-days-of-bohemia |access-date=October 13, 2023 |archive-date=October 16, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231016023847/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/jan/18/dreaming-walls-review-chelsea-hotels-window-on-last-days-of-bohemia |url-status=live}}</ref> An episode of the TV series ''[[An American Family]]'', aired on [[PBS]] in 1973, was mostly filmed at the Chelsea,{{sfn|Tippins|2013|p=296}}<ref>{{cite web |title=An American Family |first=Anne |last=Roiphe |website=[[The New York Times]] |date=February 18, 1973 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/02/18/archives/things-are-keen-but-could-be-keener-an-american-family-an-american.html |access-date=October 20, 2023 |archive-date=October 9, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231009234339/https://www.nytimes.com/1973/02/18/archives/things-are-keen-but-could-be-keener-an-american-family-an-american.html |url-status=live}}</ref> as was an episode of the documentary series ''[[Arena (British TV series)|Arena]]''.<ref>{{cite book |last=Walker |first=J.A. |title=Arts TV: A History of Arts Television in Britain |publisher=J. Libbey |series=Arts Council Arts and Media Series |year=1993 |isbn=978-0-86196-435-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wYjN74Ej-JUC&pg=PA108 |access-date=October 20, 2023 |page=108 |archive-date=October 21, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231021223425/https://books.google.com/books?id=wYjN74Ej-JUC&pg=PA108#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live}}</ref> The 1986 film ''[[Sid and Nancy]]'', by [[Alex Cox]], chronicled the lives of residents Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen and the circumstances leading up to Spungen's murder in the hotel.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Maslin |first=Janet |date=October 3, 1986 |title=Film Festival; 'Sid and Nancy' Re-creates Tale of Punk Romance |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/10/03/movies/film-festival-sid-and-nancy-re-creates-tale-of-punk-romance.html |access-date=October 13, 2023 |archive-date=August 26, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220826195242/https://www.nytimes.com/1986/10/03/movies/film-festival-sid-and-nancy-re-creates-tale-of-punk-romance.html |url-status=live|postscript=none}}; {{Cite news |date=October 3, 1986 |first=Stephen |last=Williams |title=A Vicious Love Story |pages=169, [https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday-a-vicious-love-story/133779362/ 177] |work=[[Newsday]] |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday-a-vicious-love-story/133779325/ |access-date=October 20, 2023 |archive-date=October 21, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231021223427/https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday-a-vicious-love-story/133779325/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

The Chelsea has also been used as a setting for other films. Andy Warhol and [[Paul Morrissey]] directed ''[[Chelsea Girls]]'' (1966), a film about Warhol's Factory regulars and their lives at the hotel,<ref name="Connelly 2013" /><ref>{{Cite news |date=December 2, 1966 |title=Andy Warhol's 'Chelsea Girls' at the Cinema Rendezvous |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1966/12/02/archives/andy-warhols-chelsea-girls-at-the-cinema-rendezvous.html |access-date=October 14, 2023 |archive-date=March 8, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308193335/https://www.nytimes.com/1966/12/02/archives/andy-warhols-chelsea-girls-at-the-cinema-rendezvous.html |url-status=live}}</ref> and [[Shirley Clarke]]'s 1967 film ''[[Portrait of Jason]]'' also used the hotel as a setting.<ref>{{cite web |last=Dargis |first=Manohla |title=Shirley Clarke's 'Portrait of Jason,' Back in Circulation |website=[[The New York Times]] |date=April 12, 2013 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/14/movies/shirley-clarkes-portrait-of-jason-back-in-circulation.html |access-date=October 20, 2023 |archive-date=August 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230803042627/https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/14/movies/shirley-clarkes-portrait-of-jason-back-in-circulation.html |url-status=live}}</ref> Parts of Sandy Daley's 1971 short film ''Robert Having His Nipple Pierced'' were filmed at the Chelsea on a budget of less than $2,000.<ref>{{cite news |last=Levine |first=Paul G. |date=January 13, 1980 |title=Rock Stars Film It Their Way |page=M6 |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |id={{ProQuest|162665478}}}}</ref> [[Ethan Hawke]] directed the 2001 film ''[[Chelsea Walls]]'' about a new generation of artists living at the hotel.<ref>{{Cite news |date=April 19, 2002 |title=Checking In At the Chelsea |pages=113, [https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday-suffolk-edition-checking-in-at/133460671/ 114] |work=[[Newsday]] |first=Jan |last=Stuart |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday-suffolk-edition-checking-in-at/133460653/ |access-date=October 15, 2023 |archive-date=October 21, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231021223426/https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday-suffolk-edition-checking-in-at/133460653/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Holden 2002">{{Cite news |last=Holden |first=Stephen |date=April 19, 2002 |title=Film Review; Poor, Miserable and Addicted? They Must Be Poets |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/19/movies/film-review-poor-miserable-and-addicted-they-must-be-poets.html |access-date=October 15, 2023 |archive-date=April 19, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230419000121/https://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/19/movies/film-review-poor-miserable-and-addicted-they-must-be-poets.html |url-status=live}}</ref> Other films with scenes shot at the Chelsea include ''[[Tally Brown, New York]]'' (1979);<ref>{{cite book |last=von Praunheim |first=Rosa |title=50 Jahre pervers: die sentimentalen Memoiren des Rosa von Praunheim |trans-title=50 years of perversity: the sentimental memoirs of Rosa von Praunheim |publisher=Kiepenheuer & Witsch |year=1993 |isbn=978-3-462-02252-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z10dAQAAIAAJ |language=de |access-date=October 20, 2023 |page=255 |archive-date=October 21, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231021223457/https://books.google.com/books?id=Z10dAQAAIAAJ |url-status=live}}</ref> ''[[9½ Weeks]]'' (1986);<ref>{{cite web |title=From '9 1/2 weeks'…John and Elizabeth Chapter 165 |website=[[New York Daily News]] |date=September 13, 2002 |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/2002/09/13/from-9-12-weeksjohn-and-elizabeth-chapter-165/ |access-date=October 20, 2023 |archive-date=October 21, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231021223437/https://www.nydailynews.com/2002/09/13/from-9-12-weeksjohn-and-elizabeth-chapter-165/ |url-status=live}}</ref> ''[[Anna (1987 film)|Anna]]'' (1987);<ref>{{cite web |last=Gross |first=Michael |title=Notes on Fashions |website=[[The New York Times]] |date=September 30, 1986 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/09/30/style/notes-on-fashions.html |access-date=October 20, 2023 |archive-date=May 24, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150524193841/http://www.nytimes.com/1986/09/30/style/notes-on-fashions.html |url-status=live}}</ref> ''[[Léon: The Professional]]'' (1994);<ref>{{cite web |last=Mukhopadhyay |first=Arka |title=Where Was Léon: The Professional Filmed? |website=The Cinemaholic |date=October 2, 2021 |url=https://thecinemaholic.com/where-was-leon-the-professional-filmed/ |access-date=October 20, 2023 |archive-date=December 8, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221208010956/https://thecinemaholic.com/where-was-leon-the-professional-filmed/ |url-status=live}}</ref> and the horror film ''[[Hotel Chelsea (film)|Hotel Chelsea]]'' (2009).<ref>{{cite web |last=Luchies |first=Adam |title='Dreaming Walls: Inside the Chelsea Hotel' Trailer Spotlights New York's Iconic Building |website=Collider |date=June 4, 2022 |url=https://collider.com/dreaming-walls-inside-the-chelsea-hotel-trailer/ |access-date=October 20, 2023 |archive-date=July 14, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220714093950/https://collider.com/dreaming-walls-inside-the-chelsea-hotel-trailer/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

==== Music ====
The hotel was featured in many songs. [[Joni Mitchell]] is sometimes cited as having written the song "[[Chelsea Morning]]" about her room in the hotel.<ref name="Miller 1999" /><ref>{{Cite news |date=January 19, 1993 |title=The Inauguration; Shedding Light on a Morning and a Name|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/19/us/the-inauguration-shedding-light-on-a-morning-and-a-name.html |access-date=October 13, 2023 |archive-date=June 1, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230601232729/https://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/19/us/the-inauguration-shedding-light-on-a-morning-and-a-name.html |url-status=live}}</ref>{{Efn|1=''[[New York (magazine)|New York]]'' magazine writes that "Chelsea Morning" was about a different apartment on 16th Street.<ref>{{cite magazine |date=October 12, 1992 |title=Tanqueray Rock-n-Roll Trivia Map |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oOQCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA16-IA3 |magazine=[[New York (magazine)|New York]]|page=16-IA3|access-date=October 13, 2023 |archive-date=October 21, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231021223938/https://books.google.com/books?id=oOQCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA16-IA3#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live}}</ref>}} [[Leonard Cohen]] and [[Janis Joplin]] had an affair there in 1968 (as memorialized in a plaque installed there in 2009),<ref>{{cite news|last=Itzkoff |first=Dave|author-link=Dave Itzkoff|date=October 22, 2009 |title=Chelsea Hotel Will Remember Leonard Cohen Well |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/22/chelsea-hotel-will-remember-leonard-cohen-well/ |access-date=October 13, 2023|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|department=ArtsBeat |archive-date=October 21, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231021223929/https://archive.nytimes.com/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/22/chelsea-hotel-will-remember-leonard-cohen-well/ |url-status=live}}</ref> and Cohen later wrote the song "Chelsea Hotel", as well as another version titled "[[New Skin for the Old Ceremony#Songs|Chelsea Hotel No. 2]]", about it.<ref name="Considine 2005" /><ref name="Hoby 2010" /><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Runtagh |first=Jordan |date=November 14, 2016 |title=How Leonard Cohen Met Janis Joplin: Inside Chelsea Hotel Encounter |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/how-leonard-cohen-met-janis-joplin-inside-legendary-chelsea-hotel-encounter-121067/ |access-date=October 13, 2023 |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|archive-date=June 11, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230611023110/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/how-leonard-cohen-met-janis-joplin-inside-legendary-chelsea-hotel-encounter-121067/ |url-status=live}}</ref> Bob Dylan wrote the songs "[[Visions of Johanna]]"<ref name="Brenzel 2016" /><ref>{{cite web |last=Tippins |first=Sherill |date=July 11, 2017 |title=Bob Dylan and the Writing of 'Blonde on Blonde' at the Chelsea Hotel |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/bob-dylan-and-the-writing-of-blonde-on-blonde-at-the-chelsea-hotel |access-date=October 14, 2023 |website=[[The Daily Beast]]|archive-date=June 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230603163958/https://www.thedailybeast.com/bob-dylan-and-the-writing-of-blonde-on-blonde-at-the-chelsea-hotel |url-status=live}}</ref> and "[[Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands]]" there, mentioning this in "[[Sara (Bob Dylan song)|Sara]]".<ref name="Hoby 2010" /><ref name="Hasted 2016" /> Additionally, Nico's "[[Chelsea Girls (song)|Chelsea Girls]]" is about the hotel and its inhabitants.<ref name="Hoby 2010" /><ref name="Hasted 2016">{{Cite magazine|last=Hasted |first=Nick |date=January 29, 2016 |title=Jefferson Airplane's Paul Kantner: 'We were like Columbus, exploring the world' |url=https://www.uncut.co.uk/features/jefferson-airplanes-paul-kantner-we-were-like-columbus-exploring-the-world-72653/ |access-date=October 13, 2023 |magazine=[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]]|archive-date=December 5, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221205023715/https://www.uncut.co.uk/features/jefferson-airplanes-paul-kantner-we-were-like-columbus-exploring-the-world-72653/ |url-status=live}}</ref> [[Jorma Kaukonen]] wrote the song "Third Week in the Chelsea" for [[Jefferson Airplane]]'s 1971 album ''[[Bark (Jefferson Airplane album)|Bark]]'' after spending three weeks living in the Chelsea.<ref name="Hasted 2016" /> Other songs featuring the hotel include "[[Midnight in Chelsea]]" by [[Bon Jovi]],<ref name="CBS News 2018">{{cite web |title=Doors from New York City's famed Chelsea Hotel head to auction |publisher=[[CBS News]]|date=April 7, 2018 |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chelsea-hotel-doors-head-to-auction/ |access-date=October 14, 2023 |archive-date=July 8, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230708065354/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chelsea-hotel-doors-head-to-auction/ |url-status=live}}</ref> "[[Love Is Hell (Ryan Adams album)|Hotel Chelsea Nights]]" by [[Ryan Adams]],<ref>{{cite news|last=Edelstone |first=Steven |title=Ryan Adams' Guide to New York City |newspaper=[[The New York Observer|Observer]]|location=New York City|date=July 10, 2017 |url=https://observer.com/2017/07/ryan-adams-guide-to-new-york-city/ |access-date=October 14, 2023 |archive-date=July 5, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230705061330/https://observer.com/2017/07/ryan-adams-guide-to-new-york-city/ |url-status=live}}</ref> "[[Real Animal|Chelsea Hotel '78]]" by [[Alejandro Escovedo]],<ref>{{cite news|last=Cornell |first=Rick |title=Alejandro Escovedo's 'Chelsea Hotel '78'|newspaper=[[INDY Week]]|date=October 22, 2008 |url=https://indyweek.com/music/alejandro-escovedo-s-chelsea-hotel-78/ |access-date=October 14, 2023 |archive-date=July 8, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230708065400/https://indyweek.com/music/alejandro-escovedo-s-chelsea-hotel-78/ |url-status=live}}</ref> and "[[The Stand Ins|Bruce Wayne Campbell Interviewed on the Roof of the Chelsea Hotel, 1979]]" by [[Okkervil River]],<ref>{{cite magazine | title=Director's Cut | date=September 2008|magazine=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]] | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BpE-C2vX2LcC&pg=PA128 | access-date=2024-05-01 | page=128}}</ref> and [[The Tortured Poets Department (song)|"The Tortured Poets Department]]" by [[Taylor Swift]].<ref>{{cite magazine| last=Caruso | first=Skyler | title=Every Place Taylor Swift References in 'Tortured Poets Department', from the Black Dog to the Heath |magazine=[[People (magazine)|People]]| date=April 19, 2024 | url=https://people.com/every-place-taylor-swift-references-in-the-tortured-poets-department-8636120 | access-date=April 22, 2024}}</ref>

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Stillman Foster Kneeland wrote a poem in 1914, "Roofland", which commemorated the nights that he spent on the Chelsea's roof garden.<ref name="Tippins p. 60" /> Similarly, Edgar Lee Masters wrote an ode to the hotel while living there.<ref>{{cite news|last=Yarrow |first=Andrew L. |title=Chelsea: Where the Avant-garde Rubs Shoulders With Old New York|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=October 16, 1987 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/10/16/arts/chelsea-where-the-avant-garde-rubs-shoulders-with-old-new-york.html |access-date=October 20, 2023 |archive-date=March 31, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230331171546/https://www.nytimes.com/1987/10/16/arts/chelsea-where-the-avant-garde-rubs-shoulders-with-old-new-york.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Bartlett 1991">{{Cite news |title=Ghosts, grandeur haunt the Chelsea |last=Bartlett |first=Ellen |work=Boston Globe |date=June 9, 1991 |id={{ProQuest|294609843}}}}</ref> [[Arthur Miller]] wrote a short piece, "The Chelsea Affect", describing life at the Chelsea Hotel in the early 1960s.<ref>{{Unbulleted list citebundle|{{Cite news |last=Lister |first=Kat |date=January 3, 2023 |title='They are holding on to a dream': the last bohemians at New York's Chelsea Hotel|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/jan/03/they-are-holding-on-to-a-dream-the-last-bohemians-at-new-yorks-chelsea-hotel |access-date=October 14, 2023|archive-date=March 27, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230327082815/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/jan/03/they-are-holding-on-to-a-dream-the-last-bohemians-at-new-yorks-chelsea-hotel |url-status=live|ref=none}}|For the piece itself, see: {{cite magazine|title=The Chelsea Affect|magazine=[[Granta]]|date=June 28, 2002 |url=https://granta.com/the-chelsea-affect/ |access-date=October 14, 2023 |archive-date=June 8, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230608022348/https://granta.com/The-Chelsea-Affect/ |url-status=live}}}}</ref> [[Nicolaia Rips]] wrote the memoir ''Trying to Float: Coming of Age in the Chelsea Hotel'' in 2016.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Green |first=Penelope |date=July 16, 2016 |title=Childhood Tales From the Chelsea Hotel|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/17/fashion/nicolaia-rips-chelsea-hotel-trying-to-float.html |access-date=October 13, 2023 |archive-date=December 20, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221220102456/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/17/fashion/nicolaia-rips-chelsea-hotel-trying-to-float.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

The hotel has been the subject of several nonfiction accounts and photographical books. Robert Baral's 1965 book ''Turn West on 23rd'' devoted a chapter to the hotel,<ref name="Variety 1966" /> while Claudio Edinger's 1983 book ''Chelsea Hotel'' consisted of photographs of the hotel and its residents.<ref name="Karlen 1983" /><ref name="The New York Times 1983">{{Cite news |date=June 26, 1983 |title=Chelsea Men and Women|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/06/26/books/chelsea-men-and-women.html |access-date=October 14, 2023 |archive-date=May 24, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150524142139/http://www.nytimes.com/1983/06/26/books/chelsea-men-and-women.html |url-status=live}}</ref> Florence Turner's 1987 book ''At the Chelsea'' doubled as a memoir and a description of the hotel's occupants.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Hirshey |first=Gerri |date=January 19, 1988 |title=The Chelsea Divine Dive|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1988/01/19/the-chelsea-divine-dive/d868bd40-390a-42de-8a1f-cc25e90e8073/ |access-date=October 20, 2023|archive-date=October 21, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231021223931/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1988/01/19/the-chelsea-divine-dive/d868bd40-390a-42de-8a1f-cc25e90e8073/ |url-status=live}}</ref> Ed Hamilton, who moved into the Chelsea in 1995, launched the ''Living with Legends'' blog about the hotel in 2005;<ref>{{Cite web|last=Chamberlain|first=Lisa|ref=none|date=June 4, 2006|title=A Year in the Life|website=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/04/nyregion/thecity/04blog.html|access-date=November 3, 2023|archive-date=January 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126033340/https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/04/nyregion/thecity/04blog.html |url-status=live}}</ref> information from that blog was collated in the 2007 book ''Legends of the Chelsea Hotel''.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Giles |first=Jeff |date=October 28, 2007 |title=Chelsea Mornings|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/28/books/review/Giles-t.html |access-date=October 13, 2023 |archive-date=November 29, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221129151126/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/28/books/review/Giles-t.html |url-status=live}}</ref> The hotel was also described in Sherill Tippins's 2013 book ''Inside the Dream Palace'',<ref name="Harrington 2014" /><ref>{{Cite news |last=Calhoun |first=Ada|author-link=Ada Calhoun|date=December 6, 2013 |title=The Chelsea|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/08/books/review/inside-the-dream-palace-by-sherill-tippins.html |access-date=October 13, 2023 |archive-date=February 16, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170216060842/http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/08/books/review/inside-the-dream-palace-by-sherill-tippins.html |url-status=live}}</ref> as well as Victoria Cohen's 2013 [[coffee table book]] ''Hotel Chelsea''.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Hirst |first=Arlene |date=August 7, 2013 |title='Hotel Chelsea' by Victoria Cohen|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/08/garden/hotel-chelsea-by-victoria-cohen.html |access-date=October 14, 2023 |archive-date=April 25, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190425234724/https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/08/garden/hotel-chelsea-by-victoria-cohen.html |url-status=live}}</ref> In 2019, the photographer Colin Miller published the book ''Hotel Chelsea: Living in the Last Bohemian Haven'', which included pictures of the remaining apartments' interiors.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Farrell |first=Aimee |date=November 7, 2019 |title=Inside the Last Occupied Apartments of the Chelsea Hotel|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/07/t-magazine/chelsea-hotel-apartments.html |access-date=October 13, 2023 |archive-date=November 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221125122221/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/07/t-magazine/chelsea-hotel-apartments.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

Several pieces of fiction have been set at the hotel, such as [[Stuart Cloete]]'s 1947 short story ''The Blast'', describing New York City after a [[nuclear holocaust]].<ref name="Tippins p. 106" /> [[Henry Van Dyke (novelist)|Henry Van Dyke]]'s 1969 book ''Blood of Strawberries'', a [[black comedy]], revolved around a group of fictional bohemians who lived at the hotel.<ref>{{cite news|title=''Blood of Strawberries''; by Henry Van Dyke. 278 pp. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $5.50|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=January 5, 1969 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1969/01/05/archives/blood-of-strawberries-by-henry-van-dyke-278-pp-new-york-farrar.html |access-date=October 19, 2023 |archive-date=October 21, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231021224931/https://www.nytimes.com/1969/01/05/archives/blood-of-strawberries-by-henry-van-dyke-278-pp-new-york-farrar.html |url-status=live|postscript=none}}; {{Cite news |title=Chelsea Hotel Same Amid Hell's Kitchen |work=The Austin Statesman |date=March 30, 1966 |page=7 |id={{ProQuest|1516026643}}}}</ref> Dee Dee Ramone wrote the book ''[[Chelsea Horror Hotel]]'' in 2001,<ref name="Tippins p. 343" /><ref>{{cite web |last=Pareles |first=Jon|author-link=Jon Pareles|title=Dee Dee Ramone, Pioneer Punk Rocker, Dies at 50|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=June 7, 2002 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/07/arts/dee-dee-ramone-pioneer-punk-rocker-dies-at-50.html |access-date=October 20, 2023 |archive-date=October 21, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231021224931/https://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/07/arts/dee-dee-ramone-pioneer-punk-rocker-dies-at-50.html |url-status=live}}</ref> and [[Fiona Davis]] used it as a setting in her 2019 novel ''Chelsea Girls''.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Leiby |first=Michele Langevine |date=August 12, 2019 |title=Review {{!}} ''The Chelsea Girls'' revisits the fear and desperation of the McCarthy-era theater world|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/the-chelsea-girls-revisits-the-fear-and-desperation-of-the-mccarthy-era-theater-world/2019/08/12/674524ee-bcfc-11e9-b873-63ace636af08_story.html |access-date=October 14, 2023|archive-date=September 14, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190914125028/https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/the-chelsea-girls-revisits-the-fear-and-desperation-of-the-mccarthy-era-theater-world/2019/08/12/674524ee-bcfc-11e9-b873-63ace636af08_story.html |url-status=live}}</ref> [[Joseph O'Neill (writer, born 1964)|Joseph O'Neill]] wrote the novel ''[[Netherland (novel)|Netherland]]'' partly based on his experience living at the hotel.<ref name="Tippins p. 343" /><ref name="Hoby 2010" />

==== Other works ====
The Chelsea hosted a multimedia festival in 1989, ''At the Chelsea'', which celebrated the hotel's history with theatrical shows, music, and performance art.<ref>{{cite news|title='At the Chelsea' Festival Looks at Hotel's History|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=January 13, 1989 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/01/13/arts/at-the-chelsea-festival-looks-at-hotel-s-history.html |access-date=October 20, 2023 |archive-date=December 21, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171221002705/http://www.nytimes.com/1989/01/13/arts/at-the-chelsea-festival-looks-at-hotel-s-history.html |url-status=live|postscript=none}}; {{Cite news |title=3 Rooms of Theater at Chelsea Hotel: at N.Y.'s Hostelry of Choice for Bohemian Artists, There Are Different Stories Behind Different Doors |last=Milward |first=John |work=The Philadelphia Inquirer |date=January 16, 1989 |page=C.1 |id={{ProQuest|1834327986}}}}</ref> [[Nicole Burdette]]'s play ''Chelsea Walls'', first performed in 1990,<ref>{{cite news|last=Gussow |first=Mel|author-link=Mel Gussow|title=Review/Theater; Artists' Home of Legend|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=June 9, 1990 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/09/theater/review-theater-artists-home-of-legend.html |access-date=October 20, 2023 |archive-date=October 21, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231021224932/https://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/09/theater/review-theater-artists-home-of-legend.html?searchResultPosition=2 |url-status=live}}</ref> was the basis for the similarly-named 2001 film.<ref name="Holden 2002" /> In 2013, Welsh choreographers Jessica Cohen and Jim Ennis choreographed a dance piece inspired by the Chelsea Hotel; the piece depicts four fictional couples, who are loosely based on real-life hotel residents.<ref name="Mackrell 2013" /> The multimedia performance "Young Artists at the Chelsea", dramatizing the lives of some of the residents, was presented in a gallery in the hotel in 2015.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Ryzik |first1=Melena |last2=Barone |first2=Joshua |date=June 11, 2015 |title=Spare Times for June 12–18|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/12/arts/spare-times-for-june-12-18.html |access-date=October 14, 2023 |archive-date=June 16, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220616142404/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/12/arts/spare-times-for-june-12-18.html |url-status=live}}</ref>