Chelsea Hotel, NYC, built in 1883/4 with 100 apartments, later subdivided into 400 units,
and as of 2022  has 155 units. Clientele were "radicals in the 1930s, British sailors in the 40s,
Beats in the 50s, hippies in the 60s, decadent poseurs in the 70s".
Famous guests Mark Twain, Henri Chopin, Quentin Crisp, Allen Ginsberg, O. Henry,
Clifford Irving, Jack Kerouac, Arthur Miller, Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams,
the list goes on and on.
 
Jim Georgiou lived 25 years in room 225 of the Chelsea Hotel.
It’s the same room Bob Dylan lived in and where he wrote ‘Blonde on Blonde’.
In 2007 Jim had bad luck and was evicted when he couldn’t pay the rent.
He slept in the lobby for a month then started sleeping outside.
 
In 2012 during renovation workmen brought out a couple hundred room doors
to curbside trash.
Jim got a friend with a truck to help him move some to an artist friends place.
Cigdem Tankut let him stash 52 of the doors in her storage unit for 5 years.
Jim asked Guernsey’s to auction them which they did in 2018.
Jim pledged half his share to ‘City Harvest’, food for NYC people in need.
 
Cohen, Joplin, Joni Mitchell. Madonna, Isabella Rossellini, door = $13,000
Brian Jones then Liam Neeson door = $5,000
Herbert Huncke coined "Beat Generation", W.S. Burroughs first fix = $5,500
Jim Morrison door = $7,500.  (Yeah, the Doors Jim Morrison but not these doors)
Jimi Hendrix door = $13,000
Where Andy Warhol filmed Edie Sedgwick in Chelsea Girls, door  = $52.500
L.Cohen & J.Joplin sexual tryst inspiring ‘Chelsea Hotel #2’ door = $85,000
 
And 225, the door to Bob Dylan and Jim’s room = $100,000.
 

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