Living with Legends

Apparently Bellevue Hospital and the Chelsea Hotel have shared a number of former inmates: Eugene O’Neill, Edie Sedgwick, Charles Jackson, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and of course Sid Vicious.  We’ve always said that the Chelsea is the last stop before the nuthouse and a recent article in New York Magazine quips that “ Bellevue is the Chelsea of the insane,” but we of course take issue with that.  The Chelsea Hotel itself is the Chelsea of the insane.