Professional Review
This is a landmark better appreciated for what it represents than for what it actually is: a sordid hotel with an eyebrow-raising reputation.
Built in 1882 as a cooperative apartment building, it switched to transients in 1905. Since then, it has embedded itself in the American psyche by way of some notable poets, playwrights, musicians, painters and visionaries who bedded down here: Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, the Dylans (Thomas and Bob), Allen Ginsberg, Robert Mapplethorpe and Patti
