hotel chelsea

on 23rd street, between seventh and eighth avenues. this is where sid vicious of the sex pistols may have stabbed girlfriend nancy spungen to death on october 12, 1978; where some survivors of the titanic stayed as it was close to pier 54, the ship's planned docking spot; where bob dylan wrote sad eyed lady of the lowlands.

this was, at some point or another, home to mark twain, dylan thomas, william s burroughs, leonard cohen, arthur miller, tennessee williams, allen ginsberg, jack kerouac, simone de beauvoir, jean-paul sartre, stanley kubrick, patti smith, janis joplin, jimi hendrix, frida kahlo, henri cartier-bresson and andy warhol. among others.

what's not to love?