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Very few physical locations conjure up such nostalgic feelings of a past well romanticized. Hotel Chelsea, however, is in a category of its own. Its walls are emblematic of a golden age of artists: Patti Smith, Leonard Cohen, Andy Warhol. A great nod to the la vie boheme of that decade – a symbol of a New York city most creatives yearn for, have a hunger for, long to return to, wish to experience.

For when Leonard Cohen wrote,

“I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel // You were talking so brave and so sweet // Givin’ me head on the unmade bed // While the limousines wait in the street // Those were the reasons, and that was New York”

For so many of us – those of us who were not there, not present, not yet born – for us, Hotel Chelsea was New York.

“ENOUGH HAS BEEN WRITTEN ABOUT – AND, PERHAPS, MORE WRITTEN WITHIN – THE CHELSEA TO SATISFY HISTORY HOUNDS THE WORLD OVER. INDEED, IT IS THE HOTEL’S UNIQUELY RICH PAST WHICH HAS MADE IT ICONIC. YET, THOSE WHO KNOW IT DO NOT DEFINE IT BY ITS HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE, BUT, INSTEAD, BY IT’S EVER-EVOLVING, UNMISTAKABLE OTHERNESS. SOLID AND SUMPTUOUS, ECCENTRIC YET BEAUTIFUL, THE CHELSEA IS A WORLD UNTO ITSELF: A DECADENT PALACE OF PECULIARITY.” – hotelchelsea.com

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***All photography is from Hotel Chelsea’s website and belongs to Hotel Chelsea.