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Chelsea Hotel, 222 W 23rd St

Then: Legendary bohemian hangout where starving creative types could pay their rent in art if they asked nicely enough, home to a rich cast of drag queens, drug addicts, misfits, artists, Warhol superstars, and future celebrities (Leonard Cohen, Charles Bukowski, Bob Dylan, etc.)

Now: The same legendary bohemian hangout, so long as you don’t actually venture inside to see developer Joseph Chetrit’s tradesmen in the process of stripping the place of all its character.