"The Chelsea has always been a sort of Tower of Babel of creativity and bad behavior. Some of the world's most gifted and most destructive minds have called 222 West 23rd Street home."
--The International Herald Tribune

"Everybody knows about it. Everybody knows it's a different kind of place, from the moment they walk in the door. The lobby looks like an art galley or museum. You have the feeling that there's something different from this hotel--you don't even have the feeling of a hotel, more that you're walking into a place that is history"
--Stanley Bard

Steven Allen Green-

I'm a stand-up Comedian, and I've lived here for six years. I moved here from Hollywood--I came to NYC to interview Allen King, got a room at the Hotel and never left. I feel like I have plugged into a thriving subculture at the Chelsea. I've met so many wonderful people. The Chelsea has helped me build my confidence. The Chelsea has been here a long time and it's not going anywhere. We're here, we're weird we're here, we're staying and we are important; without saying we are more important than anyone else. The Chelsea is an extended family. Sometimes it is intrusive, and claustrophobic and there's gossip. When I first moved to the Chelsea I was quitting stand-up comedy. I began writing. You realize that everyday people that live in the hotel are some great artist.

The hotel has a pull to it, like gravity. Every six months you say, I'm going to get out of here and get a regular place, I'm an adult now, I'm going to get a real place, but it has this pull to it. It's like living at Disneyland. I've met a lot of celebrities here.

Of course sometimes it's like a mental institution. There was this one guy who lived in the building, a singer, and said he was big in England. I asked him why he didn't go back to England and the guy said the CIA didn't want him to. He started sending the police to my apartment, saying that I had attacked him. Then he offered me a record label and tormented me. He claimed that he had taken acid 400 times.

I'm a quiet person. I don't have any ghost stories.