8. The Hotel Chelsea
The Hotel Chelsea famous for the many artists and musicians who called it home over the past 130+ years, as well as the infamous incidents that took place within its walls. Everyone from Mark Twain and Tennessee Williams to Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix at one point boasted a Chelsea Hotel address. The artistic significance of the hotel runs so deep that when materials from inside were being discarded as part of ongoing renovations, someone saved the doors that once hung at the entrance of the hotel’s most famous rooms and auctioned them off at Guernsey’s. The Gothic style of the hotel helps it fit the part of perhaps the most famously haunted place in NYC.
While there are many stories of apparitions wandering through the Chelsea, the most famous are the ghosts of Sex Pistols’ bassist Sid Vicious and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen. The couple lived at the Chelsea in the late 1970s when Spungen was found dead from an apparent knife wound in their room. Sid Vicious was charged with her murder but died of an overdose while on bail awaiting trial.
