The Chelsea was converted from an apartment building into a hotel in the early 20th century, and has housed both long-term residents and temporary guests. Tony Notarberardino, a photographer from Melbourne who first arrived at the Chelsea Hotel in 1994, thought that he would be one of the latter. Instead, “I never left,” he said. When Notarberardino began living in the hotel, he was struck by the hodgepodge atmosphere, where a surprise seemingly lurked around every corner. One night, in the fall of 1997, he approached an aging drag queen he saw in the hotel elevator; she agreed to sit for a portrait in his room. With this, he embarked on a series that he would spend the next two decades pursuing. “I just saw all of these amazing people,” he said. “And I couldn’t not photograph them.” Notarberardino captured a cross-section of the hotel’s guests, as well as its employees. His project documents participants in a specific era of New York City that was on the verge of ending. See the full collection: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/0JWlso
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