Inside the Life and Times of NY's Legendary Chelsea Hotel

The Chelsea Hotel, since its founding by a visionary French architect in 1884, has been an icon of American invention: a cultural dynamo and haven for the counterculture, all in one astonishing building.

Author Sherill Tippins provides the next best thing to having a room key to the Chelsea Hotel during each of its famous—and infamous—decades, as she explains the history of New York’s legendary Chelsea Hotel.