The Chelsea's basement is also the setting for the climactic scene in Dee Dee Ramone's 2001 novel Chelsea Horror Hotel, a mix of factually-based memoiric anecdotes, paranoid hallucinations and revenge fantasies.

In Paris it is stated that nearly half the birth-rate of the city finds its way to nurses who farm babies in the suburbs.

, On the Spirit of Grace The spirit of manifestation will but upbraid you in the shame and horror of a sad eternity, if you have not the spirit of obsignation.

A little girl of this city, who is acknowledged by all to be pretty smart, was holding a very animated conversation with one of about her own years, a few days since. … After naming over various meritorious acts of which their maternals were capable, the one in question put an end to the dispute by exclaiming, Well, there's one thing my mother can do that yours can't—my mother can take every one of her teeth out at once.