222 West 23rd Street

The Chelsea Hotel has housed some of America’s most important writers: Mark Twain, O. Henry, Dylan Thomas, Arthur Miller, and James T. Farrell all stayed here as permanent residents, along with the composer Virgil Thompson, and actresses Lillian Russell and Sarah Bernhardt. Novelist Thomas Wolfe lived at the hotel in the 1930s when he wrote You Can’t Go Home Again. Andy Warhol’s 1966 film Chelsea Girls was made here as well. The Chelsea Hotel was built in 1884 as a cooperative apartment building and became a hotel only in 1905; it continues to be popular and most rooms are still leased to permanent residents.