A small white piece of paper was affixed to the left front door of the Hotel Chelsea today: "the Hotel Chelsea is temporarily closed."

今天，在切尔西酒店的左边大门上粘贴了这样一张纸条：“本酒店会暂时歇业。”

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The Chelsea hotel, in New York. A hot day in summer.

纽约的切尔西酒店，在夏日里的一热天。

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New York's historic Chelsea Hotel has a special place in history, thanks to the myriad of famous musicians, artists and writers that have slept in its beds.

纽约的切尔西酒店在历史上是有着一定的特殊地位的。这里曾住过大量的著名音乐家、艺术家和作家。

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Lots of buildings have their secrets. (Only the Chelsea Hotel really knows what happened between Sid and Nancy that night).

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Long before becoming household names themselves, she and Mapplethorpe held court with the likes of Harry Smith and Bobby Neuwirth at the Chelsea Hotel.

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There's Walter, a Vietnam War veteran and former Chelsea Hotel bouncer who soothes his post-traumatic stress disorder with alcohol, and Nuve, an Ecuadoran immigrant whose intense drive to house and school her five children is paving an upward path.

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