The Chelsea Hotel is one of New York City's landmarks for good reason. It's served as housing for bohemian creatives and addicts, and been through several iterations over its history, from divey residential to high-end hotel. Learn all about this legendary place today. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh, and there's Chuck, and Jerry's here too, and this is Stuff You Should Know, the super cool edition. Another edition in our ongoing New York saga to explain every single building or theme or trend in the entire city of New York.
I feel like these are always me, so I'm sorry if I'm foisting these.
Well, you love New York.
I do. You know, the T-shirt told me to.
Oh, I thought it was I heart New York. Is that what that means? Yeah. I get it now.
But it's I heart New York. It didn't say you heart New York. I took it all wrong. But now I love that city. So I want to know more about it.
It is a very cool city, and this is a cool place in the city's history for a long part of the city's history, actually. The Chelsea Hotel, which little known fact, is actually supposed to be called the Hotel Chelsea. And I could not find who first turned it around because surely it was a poet or a singer or something, a writer.
But at some point it got basically transversed, even though the official name is and always has been, since it was a hotel, the Hotel Chelsea Hotel.
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