Crazy Idea: The 'Vue

Bellevue, the striking 1931 Italian Renaissance-style onetime psychiatric hospital on First Avenue in New York, may be turned into a luxury hotel. The name "Bellevue" has become generic for "loony bin," and among the so-called loonies who stayed there are Norman Mailer, Edie Sedgwick, and Charlie Parker. "Our patients were not normal New York neurotics, but very sick people – otherwise known as crazy," said Dr. Frederick Covan, who was the chief psychologist there for 14 years. If it becomes a hotel, they can expect the same clientele. (NY Post; photo: Gottscho-Schleisner Collection, Library of Congress)

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