The Beat Museum
540 Broadway
800.537.6822
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Legends of the Chelsea Hotel
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Thursday Apr 24, 2008 (7:30pm)
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It might cost $250 a night these days, William Burroughs didn't actually write Naked Lunch there, and the neighborhood's artists have moved from dingy rooms to pristine galleries, but the Hotel Chelsea nevertheless maintains a historical mystique of the bohemian. Writer Ed Hamilton moved into the infamous Manhattan refuge in the mid-'90s, when the heyday patrons of the Beat and 1960s countercultural generations were truly checking out. He chronicles the hotel's latter-day residents and their storied compatriots in Legends of the Chelsea Hotel: Living with the Artists and Outlaws of New York's Rebel Mecca, and reads at no less appropriate a venue than the Beat Museum.
