#89 Chelsea Hotel

The Bowery Boys: New York City History

Tom Meyers

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, Places & Travel

4.8 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2009

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Arguably New York's least conventional hotel, the Chelsea Hotel (or rather, the Hotel Chelsea) is the one of New York's counter-culture centers, a glamorous, art-filled Tower of Babel for both creativity and debauchery. From Mark Twain to Andy Warhol, it's been both inspiration and location for artistic wonder. We wind back the clock to the beginnings of Chelsea and to the hotel's early years as one of the city's cooperative apartment buildings. What made the Chelsea so different? And why are people still fighting over this storied structure today? www.boweryboyspodcast.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/boweryboys

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0:00.0	Episode 89 of the Bowery Boys, the Chelsea Hotel.
0:04.0	Tom?
0:05.0	I mean, the hotel Chelsea.
0:08.0	Hey, it's the Bowery Boys.
0:10.0	Hey.
0:11.0	The Bowery Boys is brought to you by EuroChipo.com.
0:15.0	EuroChipo editors personally visit and review the best budget hotels in Europe.
0:20.0	Now it's hotels in New York City on the web at EuroChipo.com.
0:25.0	Hello and welcome to the Bowery Boys.
0:27.0	This is Greg Young and I am back with Tom Myers.
0:30.0	It's great to be here.
0:31.0	Greg, I love that we're just cracking ourselves up in that interview.
0:35.0	Well, as you know, Tom has been away for the past few weeks.
0:39.0	And where exactly did you go?
0:40.0	Well, I was over in France, actually, checking out hotels for EuroChipo.com.
0:46.0	Our sponsor, of course.
0:47.0	Right.
0:48.0	And since, of course, she were over there looking at all sorts of different hotels, dozens of hotels.
0:54.0	I thought...
0:55.0	Mostly cheap hotels, yeah.
0:56.0	Well, I'm sure you have no problem coming back to New York and talking about a hotel.
1:02.0	No, in fact, I love them.
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