"alley cat photography'
The Chelsea Hotel
Opened in 1884 as an apartment house, The Chelsea Hotel quickly became the bohemian center for art, philosophy, and 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. It is also known as the place where the writer Dylan Thomas died of alcohol poisoning in 1953, and where Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols may have stabbed his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen, to death on October 12, 1978. (from Chelsea Hotel website.)
Although converted to a hotel in 1905 private apartments are still maintained.
Romanesque/Queen Ann Style architecture.
The Chelsea Hotel
Opened in 1884 as an apartment house, The Chelsea Hotel quickly became the bohemian center for art, philosophy, and 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. It is also known as the place where the writer Dylan Thomas died of alcohol poisoning in 1953, and where Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols may have stabbed his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen, to death on October 12, 1978. (from Chelsea Hotel website.)
Although converted to a hotel in 1905 private apartments are still maintained.
Romanesque/Queen Ann Style architecture.