“ ‘Naked Lunch,’ ‘The Lost Weekend,’ and ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ were written at the Chelsea. So was a lot of Beat poetry… Andy Warhol made ‘Chelsea Girls’ there. The woman who shot him, Valerie Solanas, lived there while he was shooting. So did Viva… Rock flowered there, and punk decays.”

"Traditional watering-place for writers, longshoremen, Bohemians, pub crawlers, socialists, and just-plain-drunks, it was the kind of scene he'd dreamed of."