Directions
230 West 23rd Street
between 7th & 8th Avenue
New York City
subway stations
8th Ave & W 23rd St (A, C, E trains)
7th Ave & W 23rd St (1, 2 trains)
6th Ave & W 23rd St (F, V trains)
Broadway & W 23rd St (R, W trains)
The Chelsea Tattoo Company is located on W. 23rd Street between 7th & 8th Avenue, on the ground floor of the Hotel Chelsea.
The Hotel Chelsea is a well-known residence for artists, musicians, and writers and has always been a center of artistic and bohemian activity. The hotel was the first building to be listed by New York City as a cultural preservation site and historic building of note.
Visitors and residents of the Hotel Chelsea include Eugene O’Neil, Thomas Wolfe, Arthur C. Clarke, Janis Joplin, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, William Burroughs, Patti Smith, Arthur Miller, Dylan Thomas, Sid Vicious, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Stanley Kubrick, Dennis Hopper, Jack Kerouac, Gore Vidal, Quentin Crisp, Tennessee Williams, Jean-Paul Satre, Tom Waits, Joni Mitchell, Dee Dee Ramone, Nico, and many, many others.
More about the Hotel Chelsea and it's History
hotelchelsea.com/history.php
wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Chelsea
wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelsea_Girls
youtube.com/watch?v=ype6Hw_Hmjo