New York : The " Hotel Chelsea "

Info : The  «Hotel Chelsea», also known as the Chelsea Hotel, or simply the Chelsea, is a historic New York City  hotel and landmark, known primarily for its history of notable residents. Located at 222 West 23rd Street , between Seventh and Eighth Avenues , in the Manhattan neighborhood of Chelsea hotel has been the home of numerous writers , musicians , artists , and actors , including Bob Dylan  Virgil Thomson, Charles Bukowski , Janis Joplin , Leonard Cohen , Patti Smith , Iggy Pop ,  and Larry Rivers . Though the Hotel Chelsea no longer accepts new long-term residencies, the building is still home to many residents who lived there before the change of policy. As of August 1, 2011, the hotel has closed for renovations. Arthur C. Clarke  wrote 2001: A Space Odyssey while staying at the Chelsea, and poets Allen Ginsberg , and Gregory Corso chose it as a place for philosophical and intellectual exchange. It is also known as the place where the writer Dylan Thomas was staying when he died of pneumonia  on November 9, 1953, and where Nancy Spungen, girlfriend of Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols , was found stabbed to death on October 12, 1978.