The Hotel Chelsea is not just a hotel but a piece of art history that just happens to have beds. Built in 1884 on West 23rd Street, it was always a little offbeat, a little haunted, and totally magnetic. By the mid-20th century, it had become the messy heart of New York’s creative underground. From Patti Smith to Leonard Cohen and Salvador Dali. The elevator might not have worked but all the better chance to meet someone beautiful in the stairway. The Chelsea wasn’t glamorous. It was gritty, defiant, weird, and electric. There’s a refurbished Chelsea but I don’t care about that one, I want the old one with it’s inhabitants that made the world turn. Or turn to better music.