Woke up, it was a Chelsea morning, and the first thing that I knew There was milk and
toast and honey and a bowl of oranges, too. And the sun poured
in like butterscotch and stuck to all my senses.
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Since the great days of Jimmy Greaves, it's the only time anyone's managed to score five times in a Chelsea shirt.
lord stratfordBefore he went to jail, it was Paul America who took a hand with Edie. Paul had been on heroin, but he had gotten off it, and as it turned out, he took up residence with Edie in the Chelsea and he got her off it as well.
edie sedgwick"You'll never be wanted," [a draft board official] said, and thrust at me a smaller piece of paper. This described me as being incapable of being graded in grades A, B, etc., because I suffered from sexual perversion. When the story of my disgrace became one of the contemporary fables of Chelsea, a certain Miss Marshall said, "I don't much care for the expression 'suffering from.' Shouldn't it be 'glorying in'?"
Quentin CrispThe city overwhelmed our expectations. The Kiplingesque grandeur of Waterloo Station, the Eliotic despondency of the brick row in Chelsea … the Dickensian nightmare of fog and sweating pavement and besmirched cornices.
john updike