5.5.2023 ff, NYC (Sub)Cultural anchorage

The Hotel Chelsea … built between 1883 and 1885 … located at 222 West 23rd Street, between Seventh and Eighth Avenues, in the neighborhood of Chelsea … has been the home of numerous writers, musicians, artists and actors … poets Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso chose it as a place for philosophical and artistic exchange … Arthur Miller wrote a short piece, “The Chelsea Affect”, describing life at the Chelsea Hotel in the early 1960s … Literary artists … During its lifetime Hotel Chelsea has provided a home to many famous writers and thinkers including Mark Twain, …, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, … Musicians … Grateful Dead, … Bob Dylan, … Leonard Cohen, … Janis Joplin, … Cohen … wrote two songs …, “Chelsea Hotel” and “Chelsea Hotel #2” …

Morgan 1997, p.50: … There are entire books written about the Chelsea and its counter-culture inhabitants … Andy Warhol made the place famous yet again with his 1966 Chelsea Girls, filmed on location in these apartments …

454 W. 20th St., Morgan 1997, p. 49: … House where Kerouac wrote On the Road. … Here, Kerouac stumbled upon the idea of typing on a long roll of teletype paper so that his thoughts could flow without stopping for paper changes …

Village Vanguard (Greenwich Village), Morgan 1997, p. 68: still the place for Jazz in the Village … Kerouac did a series of readings here on seven consecutive nights in December of 1957 …

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Chelsea, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelsea,_Manhattan: a neighborhood on the West Side of the borough of Manhattan … The area’s boundaries are roughly 14th Street to the south, the Hudson River and West Street to the west, and Sixth Avenue to the east, with its northern boundary variously described … primarily residential, with a mix of tenements, apartment blocks, city housing projects, townhouses, and renovated rowhouses … its many retail businesses reflect the ethnic and social diversity of the population

Greenwich Village, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich_Village: … a neighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan … In the 20th century, … known as an artists’ haven, the bohemian capital, the cradle of the modern LGBT movement, and the East Coast birthplace of both the Beat Generation and counterculture of the 1960s … has undergone extensive gentrification and commercialization …

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Lit.: Bill Morgan (1997): The Beat generation in New York. A walking tour of Jack Kerouac’s city. City Lights Books, San Francisco.

Cf.:

• 13 Mar 2022, Re-reading Jack Kerouac (1958): The Dharma Bums
• 4 Nov 2021, Re-reading Jack Kerouac (1957): On the road
• 20 Mar 2021, Short film: Pull my daisy
• 25 Feb 2021, Lawrence Ferlinghetti died at age 101
• 30 Dec 2014, Filme 2014 inkl. John Krokidas (2013): Kill your darlings
• 17 Mar 2013, Sammlung Falckenberg: Wiliam S. Burroughs
• 4 Sep 2012, San Franciso beat poets, Tour 1 / 2 / 3, incl. City Lights bookstore