Editing Hotel Chelsea (section)

==== 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>