PHOTOS: Hotel Chelsea, Legendary NYC Hotel, Is For Sale

NEW YORK — New York City's legendary Hotel Chelsea is for sale.

The 1883 building has offered short and long-term shelter for some of the world's most celebrated artists including Bob Dylan, Andy Warhol, Arthur Miller and Eugene O'Neil.

It's also where The Sex Pistols' Sid Vicious allegedly stabbed his girlfriend to death in 1978.

The building, with its signature wrought iron balconies, was declared a landmark in 1966 and a city cultural preservation site and historic building of note.

It was the city's first cooperative apartment complex when it was built.

The building's board announced its intent to sell it on Tuesday. The board says it hopes "a new owner would re-energize and revitalize the Chelsea."

It's been owned and operated for more than 65 years by the same controlling families.

The hotel's front entrance. The landmark hotel is recognized as an American cultural icon and is renowned for the artists, writers and musicians who have lived and created art there, including Sir Arthur C. Clarke, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Stanley Kubrick, Arthur Miller, Joni Mitchell, Dee Dee Ramone, Larry Rivers, Dylan Thomas, Mark Twain, and Tennessee Williams.          <em>TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images</em>
The lobby at the Hotel Chelsea.  <em>  TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images</em>
The lobby at the Hotel Chelsea. TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images
Front desk manager Jerry Weinstein sits in the the lobby of the Hotel Chelsea in New York City 25 June 2007.   <em>  TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images</em>
Front desk manager Jerry Weinstein sits in the the lobby of the Hotel Chelsea in New York City 25 June 2007. TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images
Chelsea Hotel manager Stanley Bard, who has been a fixture at the Chelsea for more than 50 years, works from his office 25 June 2007.  <em>  TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images</em>
Chelsea Hotel manager Stanley Bard, who has been a fixture at the Chelsea for more than 50 years, works from his office 25 June 2007. TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images
One of the signature rooms at the Hotel Chelsea in New York City 25 June 2007.   <em>  TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images</em>
One of the signature rooms at the Hotel Chelsea in New York City 25 June 2007. TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images
The room where pop star Madonna lived after coming to New York in the early 80's at the Hotel Chelsea in New York City 25 June 2007.   <em>  TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images</em>
The room where pop star Madonna lived after coming to New York in the early 80's at the Hotel Chelsea in New York City 25 June 2007. TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images
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