A Love Letter to The Hotel Chelsea

Hotel Chelsea Dream Palace

A Love Letter to The Hotel Chelsea, NYC.

My longtime muse…

A friend of mine recently commented “I love your relationship with this building (The Hotel Chelsea), and how wonderfully you express that love…”

And I thought to myself,

I guess I am having a relationship with The Chelsea.

It is rather one-sided, and I might be considered a stage five stalker if I was ever this obsessed about another human being -but the Hotel doesn’t seem to mind.

The Chelsea has had many lovers… some more troubled than others.

A beautiful, mysterious, muse to the creatives and “rare individuals”-

There is a quote from Julia Calfee “I did not choose The Chelsea Hotel, The Chelsea chose me.” and I felt that.

So, as I sit here soaking up the energy of my “lover” and muse and think about how far we have come together. From the wild late 90’s and early aughts, then a season where things fell apart, a long dormant period, then a rebirth.

Our “lives” seem to have paralleled each other.

Would I have traveled this far to spend my birthday with anyone else?

I don’t know…but as Cohen says “Those were the reasons…and that was New York”.

If you know, you know.

Morning at the Hotel Chelsea

Morning at The Chelsea Hotel, NYC

The Hotel Chelsea


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