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Chelsea Hotel ยท 222 West 23rd Street
Chelsea Hotel
Chelsea Hotel
Changing New York; Chelsea Hotel
222 West 23rd Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues.
IMAGE DATE1936
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Museum of the City of New York
Museum of the City of New YorkChelsea Hotel ca. 1936
The eleven-story Hotel Chelsea opened in 1884 as one of the first cooperative apartment buildings in New York City. A list of some of the famous people who have lived there reads like a Who's Who of art, theater and literary circles: Sarah Bernhardt, Lillian Russell, Mark Twain, O. Henry, Thomas Wolfe, John Sloan, Arthur Miller (after his break up with Marilyn Monroe), Tennessee Williams, and Jackson Pollock. The survivors of the Titanic stayed here for a few days, and here Dylan Thomas collapsed after an alcoholic binge from which he never recovered.
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Museum of the City of New York