A two-alarm blaze erupted at Manhattan’s iconic Hotel Chelsea Thursday morning – sending one responding firefighter to the hospital, the FDNY said.
Firefighters were called to the landmark 12-story building on West 23rd Street near Seventh Avenue around 10:20 a.m. for a fire in the second-floor ductwork, officials said.
Smokeaters discovered that the blaze originated in a first-floor kitchen and extended upstairs, according to the fire department.
Photos from the scene show multiple hotel guests and workers – including several housekeepers in uniform – standing on the sidewalk outside the building as the FDNY responds.
The fire was placed under control just before noon.
One firefighter was taken to Lenox Health Greenwich Village with minor injuries.
The cause of the blaze is under investigation by city fire marshals.
The landmark building was built between 1883 and 1884 and was considered a skyscraper at the time.
It was home over the decades to the likes of Arthur C. Clarke, who wrote “2001: A Space Odyssey” while living there, Mark Twain, poets Dylan Thomas and Allen Ginsberg and jazz musicians Chet Baker and Chick Corea.
Andy Warhol made films at the Chelsea with actress Viva among others of his “superstars” who called the place home. Madonna, who lived there in the early 1980s, returned to shoot photos for her book “Sex” in 1992.
In perhaps the most notorious episode, Nancy Spungen, girlfriend of Sex Pistols’ bass player Sid Vicious, was stabbed to death there in 1978.