Apparently Bellevue Hospital and the Chelsea Hotel have shared a number of former inmates: Eugene O’Neill, Edie Sedgwick, Charles Jackson, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and of course Sid Vicious. We’ve always said that the Chelsea is the last stop before the nuthouse and a recent article in New York Magazine quips that “
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