The Hotel Chelsea, (1989 photo) also known as the Chelsea Hotel, is a historic New York City hotel and landmark, noted for its history of notable residents. Located at 222 West 23rd Street, between Seventh and Eighth Avenues, in the Manhattan neighborhood of Chelsea, the 250-unit hotel has been home to many writers, musicians, artists, and actors, including Bob Dylan, Charles Bukowski, Janis Joplin, Patti Smith, Leonard Cohen, Iggy Pop, Robert Mapplethorpe and Larry Rivers.

Sir Arthur C. Clarke wrote 2001: A Space Odyssey while staying at the Chelsea, and poet Allen Ginsberg chose it as a place for philosophical and intellectual exchange. It is also known as the place where the writer Dylan Thomas was staying when he died on November 9, 1953, and where Nancy Spungen, girlfriend of Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols, was found stabbed to death on October 12, 1978. The building was designated New York City landmark in 1966, and on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.