chelsea living

So we're living in Chelsea. We found this place in one day. I came down to the city with Pam back in the first week of July. We stayed at the Hilton and looked at apartments for half a day. Frank, our realtor, showed us mostly one-bedrooms in Hell's Kitchen. His idea was to put up these pressurized walls to create a second bedroom out of the living room.

The first two bedroom we saw was in Hell's Kitchen reminded me of a possible sitcom scenario where Country Bumpkins, Jon and Pam, move to the Big City to live life to the fullest. I imagine the open shot of the credit theme to be the both of us stepping into the apartment for the first time and our joyful eager faces immediately changing to looks of digust and horror as the theme music begins - something lightly and cartoonish like the Mr Belvedere theme. When we did walk in I was trying hard to imagine clean walls and floors and actually furniture. I turn around to see pam shaking her head an emphatic "no no no no." None of the room proportions made any sense. Not to mention it was a tad dirty. [Pam's side commment: "Not enough bleach in the world could clean that place"]. The shower was a shower stand only shower to was flush against the toilet to the point where the toilet bowl actually curve over the side of the shower perimeter.

The only other two bedroom was in Chelsea and Frank was intent on getting us this place. And I'm so glad we got it. Right in the heart of the Chelsea neighborhood we are directly two floors above one of the neighborhoods most well known gay bars. The area is fun and there's just about everything you could possibly need within a two block radius, often available 24 hours a day.


A few pictures

My room:


View of kitchen from living room:


Living room with view of dinner table and stairway (to the Forbidden Rooftop):


Living room from staircase with view of kitchen entrance:


View up the staircase and skylight: