The location is great. Some things to keep in mind though:
1) I was in a room that was street view. It was extremely difficult for me to sleep at night due to noise at all hours on the street due to a variety of reasons.
A) There was always construction going on for about my full stay (almost 3 weeks) that I lived there and this was not mentioned on the Chelsea Inn Airbnb page. I felt that this really impacted my experience and I felt tricked.
B) There seems to be a trailer park or something across the street, so the noise of motors is non stop.
C) At about 12 AM or 1 AM every day without fail there are some trucks that come to take out the trash of the building across the street so you can hear loud metallic clinking and motor sounds. This would wake me up every night. And then by about 8 AM the construction would start.
D) It's right above a speakeasy and so there's always people hanging out on the street.
E) There was ALWAYS a group of people hanging out downstairs playing music, and smoking weed. This was also irritating because they were often loud and inconsiderate of people sleeping above. I also felt unsafe sometimes coming home to a group of guys hanging out downstairs smoking.
I never once was able to get 8 hours of sleep here.
2) If you are planning from WFH DO NOT STAY HERE. The WiFi was sooo unreliable, I got disconnected from work calls several times and had to use my personal hotspot. I often had to go work out of a cafe because the room is so small it's claustrophobic for more than a few hours and then also the unreliable wifi.
3) Some other things: the check in is contactless, and there's often no one on duty directly at the premises. I did not have trouble checking in myself, and thankfully it was smooth for me. However, there was an instance where two people in one night hounded me to tell them the code to get in, and I felt guilty but unsafe letting them know the code. They claimed they lived at the Chelsea Inn but no one had told them the code. I called the receptionist, and overall he was pretty unhelpful and told me "don't worry about it." I was torn between trying to help someone that genuinely lived at the inn or fending for the safety of myself and the inn's other residents.
4) When available, the receptionists were generally quite helpful and nice.
5) The room was super super tiny, but I don't think this is false advertising since it looks pretty small on the Airbnb website too. Overall, I think this place is pretty expensive for what it is - it's quite ghetto.