Word: chelsea
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fantasy did play an important role during Joni's first months in New York City. She covered one bedroom wall in tin foil, festooned the doorjambs with crepe paper. She toyed with writing a children's book about mythical kingdoms and later celebrated her new freedom in Chelsea Morning: ... the sun poured in like butterscotch...
Peter Ferrara has the distinction of being the first Crimson contributor whose work ("Is Chavez Fooling Harvard,"Crimson, Oct. 21) is hanging in the Chelsea market. By the time he gets his grapeskin he may make the Fulton market: if he had his way, there's still be scab products around a couple of years from...
Fabled residents have included writers like Mark Twain and O. Henry, Thomas Wolfe and Dylan Thomas. Today the Chelsea is the permanent domain of Composer Virgil Thomson, the spot that Playwright Arthur Miller chooses to stay at when he is in town opening a new play, and the regular New York stopover for a host of luminaries from the world of art, music, film and fiction, who, along with its dozens of regular residents, prefer the funky, faded chic of the Chelsea to more contemporary quarters uptown. Perennial Chelsea guests include the entire Fonda clan, Director John Houseman and Actors...
...recent months, however, the Chelsea has also become an occasional hangout for a seedier brand of clientele -prostitutes, pimps and gamblers-and last week their high jinks snared some surprised Chelsea guests in an ugly rape-and-robbery incident. A third-floor room was serving as an all-night gambling den, with sex available as an added lure. At least 13 men and women, some of them registered guests, made their way to room 330 for the night's gambol. Around 7 a.m. Sunday, two men crashed the party at gunpoint. The pair made the partygoers strip and stole...
...heist likely to hurt the Chelsea's zany reputation? Hardly, say its most seasoned guests, who for years have known how to blink at outlandish goings-on at the Chelsea. "The incident just gives the place a little pep," observed Composer George Kleinsinger, a 17-year resident. "The Chelsea is still a very personal place, and I like it for that," says Playwright Miller, who lived there from 1965 to 1972. "It has big, quiet rooms. Some of them," he adds with an indulgent smile, "need painting, of course...