"Staying up for nights in the Chelsea Hotel writing Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands for you."<p>Bob Dylan, "Sara" (his wife)<p>"I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel
You were famous, your heart was a legend
You told me again you preferred handsome men
But for me you would make an exception "<p>Leonard Cohen regarding Janis Joplin - “Chelsea Hotel No. 2,”
Lived there for a year in '93 or '94, I forget. It's a 'dark' building. I remember Stanley, a somewhat unpleasant little man. Had one of my episodic software breakthroughs there -- was obsessively diagramming object graphs in those days -- and did some art there too for which you will have to wait until I'm conveniently and appropriately dead. And no, the ghost of Nancy did not show up. <i>Creepiest bathroom ever.</i>
I had the pleasure of staying there for a couple of nights in 2008. The hallways smelt of burning incense. As I waited for the key to my room, I remember someone coming up to reception, saying that they'd like to film a documentary about the place. The guy just looked at them and said no, fuck off.