YEAR BUILT - 1884 YEAR REMODELED - 2022
ADDITIONAL PROPERTY DESCRIPTION -
ENOUGH HAS BEEN WRITTEN ABOUT—AND, PERHAPS, MORE WRITTEN
WITHIN—THE HOTEL CHELSEA TO SATISFY HISTORY HOUNDS THE WORLD
OVER. INDEED, IT IS THE HOTELS UNIQUELY RICH PAST WHICH HAS
MADE IT ICONIC. YET, THOSE WHO KNOW IT DO NOT DEFINE IT BY
ITS HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE, BUT, INSTEAD, BY ITS
EVER-EVOLVING, UNMISTAKABLE OTHERNESS.SINCE ITS ESTABLISHMENT
IN 1884, THIS RED BRICK AND WROUGHT IRON HAVEN HAS EXISTED AS
A WORLD UNTO ITSELF, A DECADENT REFUGE FROM NORMALCY.
SITUATED NEITHER UPTOWN NOR DOWNTOWN, HERE NOR THERE, IT
REMAINS A HUMBLE RARITY THAT IS SO DISTINCTLY ITS OWN, IT
DOES NOT SEEM TO ADHERE TO EXTERNAL TIME OR SPACE. STILL, AS
WITH ANY VENERABLE INSTITUTION, AGE CAN TAKE TOLL.AFTER OVER
A CENTURY OF REVELRY, THE EPOCHAL NEW YORK HOTEL SPENT A
DECADE IN THE DARK, BUT IN THE DAWNING OF 2022, IT REOPENED
IN ITS ORIGINAL GLORY. ITS RESTORED LANDMARKED
INTERIOR—COMPLETE WITH HISTORIC CORRIDORS, OLD-WORLD
BRICOLAGE, AND ELEGANT SUITES—MIRRORS THE GRANDIOSE WEST
TWENTY-THIRD STREET FACADE ONCE MORE. AND IN TRUE CHELSEAN
FASHION, THE HOTELS BARS, RESTAURANTS, AND ENCLAVES ARE YET
AGAIN BRIMMING WITH ITS NOTABLE FLAIR FOR INDULGENCE. SOLID
AND SUMPTUOUS, ECCENTRIC AND BEAUTIFUL, THE HOTEL CHELSEA HAS
AND WILL ALWAYS BE AN ENIGMATIC REFUGE. BUT AS IT OPENS ITS
DOORS WITH A RENEWED SPIRIT, ONE THING IS CERTAIN: THERE IS A
MYSTIQUE WITHIN THESE WALLS THAT WELCOMES ALL WHO ENTER.
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