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View from between 47th and 48th

streets on Ninth Avenue looking

northeast toward Time Warner Center

and Hearst Tower

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Hell's Kitchen, also known as Clinton and Midtown West, is aneighborhood of Manhattan in New York City between 34th Street and

59th Street, from Eighth Avenue to the Hudson River.[1] The areaprovides transportation, hospital and warehouse infrastructure support tothe Midtown Manhattan business district. Its gritty reputation kept realestate prices below those of most other areas of Manhattan until the early1990s; rents have increased dramatically since and are currently above

the Manhattan average.[2]

Once a bastion of poor and working-class Irish Americans, Hell'sKitchen's proximity to Midtown has changed it over the last threedecades of the 20th century and into the new millennium. The 1969edition of the City Planning Commission's Plan for New York Cityreported that development pressures related to its Midtown locationwere driving people of modest means from the area. Today, the area isgentrifying.

The rough-and-tumble days on the West Side figure prominently in Damon Runyon's stories and the childhoodhome of Marvel Comics' Daredevil. Being near to both Broadway theatres and Actors Studio training school thearea has long been a home to actors learning and practicing their craft.

Contents

1 Geography

2 Name

2.1 Alternative names3 History

3.1 Ethnic conflict

3.2 Special Clinton district

3.3 Windermere

3.4 September 11, 2001

3.5 Boom times

4 Actor and artist neighborhood

5 Transportation6 Food

7 Parks

8 Education

9 Hell's Kitchen in popular culture

10 Notable current and former residents

10.1 Hell's Kitchen mobsters

11 References

Coordinates: 40.763186°N 73.994508°W

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New York Passenger Ship Terminal

in Hell's Kitchen at 52nd Street

12 External links

Geography

"Hell's Kitchen" generally refers to the area from 34th to 59th streets.Starting west of Eighth Avenue, city zoning regulations generally limitbuildings to 6 stories. As a result, most of the buildings are older, oftenwalk-ups. For the most part, the neighborhood encompasses the ZIPcodes 10019 and 10036. The post office for 10019 is called Radio CityStation, the original name for Rockefeller Center on Sixth Avenue.

Southern boundary

Hell's Kitchen and Chelsea overlap and are often lumped together

as the "West Side" since they support the Midtown Manhattan

business district. The traditional dividing line is 34th Street. Thetransition area just north of Madison Square Garden and

Pennsylvania Station includes the Jacob K. Javits Convention

Center.Eastern boundary

The neighborhood overlaps the Times Square Theater District to the east at Eighth Avenue. On its southeastborder, it overlaps the Garment District also on Eighth Avenue. Here, two landmarks reside – the NewYorker Hotel and the dynamic Manhattan Center building (at the northwest corner of 34th Street and Eighth

Avenue). Included in the transition area on Eighth Avenue are the Port Authority Bus Terminal at 42ndStreet, the Pride of Manhattan Fire Station (from which 15 firefighters died at the World Trade Center),

several theatres including Studio 54, the original soup stand of Seinfeld's "The Soup Nazi," and the HearstTower.

Northern boundaryThe neighborhood edges toward the southern boundary of the Upper West Side, and 57th Street is

considered by some the traditional northern boundary. However the neighborhood often is considered toextend to 59th Street (the southern edge of Central Park starting at Eighth Avenue) where the avenue names

change. Included in the 57th to 59th Street transition area are the Time Warner Center at Columbus Circle,St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, where John Lennon died in 1980 after being shot, and John JayCollege.

Western boundaryThe western boundary is the Hudson River.

Name

Several explanations exist for the original name. An early use of the phrase appears in a comment Davy Crockettmade about another notorious Irish slum in Manhattan, Five Points. According to the Irish Cultural Society of theGarden City Area:

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Hell's Kitchen gear for sale in the

Video Cafe on Ninth Avenue

Public housing

When, in 1835, Davy Crockett said, "In my part of the country, when you meet an Irishman, you finda first-rate gentleman; but these are worse than savages; they are too mean to swab hell's kitchen." He

was referring to the Five Points.[3]

According to an article by Kirkley Greenwell, published online by the Hell's Kitchen Neighborhood Association:

No one can pin down the exact origin of the label, but some referto a tenement on 54th Street as the first "Hell's Kitchen." Anotherexplanation points to an infamous building at 39th as the trueoriginal. A gang and a local dive took the name as well.... a similar

slum also existed in London and was known as Hell's Kitchen.[4]

Local historian Mary Clark explained the name thus:

...first appeared in print on September 22, 1881 when a NewYork Times reporter went to the West 30s with a police guide toget details of a multiple murder there. He referred to a particularlyinfamous tenement at 39th Street and 10th Avenue as "Hell'sKitchen," and said that the entire section was "probably the lowestand filthiest in the city." According to this version, 39th Streetbetween 9th and 10th Avenues became known as Hell's Kitchen and the name was later expanded tothe surrounding streets. Another version ascribes the name's origins to a German restaurant in the areaknown as Heil's Kitchen, after its proprietors. But the most common version traces it to the story ofDutch Fred The Cop, a veteran policeman, who with his rookie partner, was watching a small riot onWest 39th Street near 10th Avenue. The rookie is supposed to have said, "This place is hell itself," to

which Fred replied, "Hell's a mild climate. This is Hell's Kitchen."[5]

Alternative names

Hell's Kitchen has stuck as the general and informal name of theneighborhood even though real estate developers have offeredalternatives of "Clinton" and "Midtown West" or even "the Mid-West".The Clinton name, used by the municipality of New York City, originatedin 1959 in an attempt to link the area to DeWitt Clinton Park at 52nd andEleventh Avenue, named after the 19th century New York governor.

History

On the island of Manhattan as it was when Europeans first saw it, theGreat Kill which formed from three small streams that united near Tenth

Avenue and 40th Street, wound through the low-lying Reed Valley renowned for fish and waterfowl[6] to empty

into the Hudson River at a deep bay on the river at the present 42nd Street.[7] The name was retained in a tinyhamlet, Great Kill, that became a center for carriage-making, as the upland to the south and east became known as

Longacre, the predecessor of Longacre, now Times Square.[8] One of the large farms of the colonial era in thisneighborhood was that of Andreas Hopper and his descendants; it spanned the distance between today's 48thStreet nearly to 59th Street and stretched from the river east to what is now Sixth Avenue. One of the Hopperfarmhouses, built in 1752 for John Hopper the younger, stood near 53rd Street and Eleventh Avenue; christened

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Mission House, Hell's

Kitchen, c. 1915

Hell's Kitchen and Sebastopol,

c. 1890, photographed by Jacob Riis

"Rosevale" for its extensive gardens, it was the home of the War of 1812 veteran, Gen. Garrit Hopper Striker, andlasted until 1896, when it was demolished; the site was purchased for the city and naturalistically landscaped bySamuel Parsons Jr. as DeWitt Clinton Park. In 1911 New York Hospital bought a full city block largely of the

Hopper property, between 54th and 55th Streets, Eleventh and Twelfth Avenues.[9] Beyond the railroad track,projecting into the river at 54th Street, was Mott's Point, with an 18th-century Mott family house, surrounded by

gardens, that was inhabited by members of the family until 1884 and survived until 1895.[10]

A lone surviving structure that dates from the time this area was open farmlandand suburban villas is the carriage house (pre-1800) that once belonged to a villaowned by ex-Vice President and New York State governor George Clinton,

now in a narrow court behind 422 West 46th Street.[11] From 1811 until it wasofficially de-mapped the ghostly Bloomingdale Square was part of the city'sintended future; it extended from 53rd to 57th Streets between Eighth and Ninth

Avenues. It was eliminated in 1857 after the establishment of Central Park,[12]

and the name shifted to the junction of Broadway, West End Avenue, and 106thStreet, now Straus Park. In 1825, for $10 the City purchased clear title to a

right-of-way through John Leake Norton's[13] farm, "The Hermitage", to lay out42nd Street clear to the river. Before long, cattle ferried from Weehawken were

being driven along the unpaved route, to slaughterhouses on the East Side.[14]

Seventy acres of the Leake, later Norton property, extending north from 42nd to46th Street and from Broadway to the river, had been purchased before 1807 byJohn Jacob Astor and William Cutting, who held it before dividing it into buildinglots as the district became more suburban.

The first change that began to unite the area more closely to New York City was the construction of the HudsonRiver Railroad, which completed the forty miles to Peekskill on 29 September 1849, to Poughkeepsie by the endof that year, and extended to Albany in 1851. As far as 60th Street, the track ran at street grade up Eleventh

Avenue, before the independent riverside roadbed commenced.[15]

The formerly rural riverfront was transformed for industrial uses such astanneries that could discharge their effluent into the river and ship theirproduction by the rails. Hence the beginnings of the neighborhood of thesouthern part of the 22nd Ward, which would become known as Hell'sKitchen, start in the mid-19th century, when immigrants from Ireland,most of whom were refugees from the Great Famine, began settling onthe west side of Manhattan in shantytowns along the Hudson River.Many of these immigrants found work on the docks nearby, or along therailroad that carried freight into the city along Eleventh Avenue.

After the American Civil War the population increased dramatically, astenements were erected and increased immigration added to theneighborhood's congestion. Many in this poverty stricken area turned togang life and the neighborhood soon became known as the "mostdangerous area on the American Continent". Around the start of the 20th century, the neighborhood was controlled

by gangs, including the violent Gopher Gang led by the notorious Owney Madden.[16]

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The violence escalated during the 1920s, as Prohibition was implemented. The many warehouses in the districtserved as ideal breweries for the rumrunners who controlled the illicit liquor. Gradually the earlier gangs such as theHell's Kitchen Gang were transformed into organized crime entities around the same time that Owney Maddenbecame one of the most powerful mobsters in New York.

After the Repeal of Prohibition, many of the organized crime elements moved into other rackets, such as illegalgambling and union shakedowns. The postwar era was characterized by a flourishing waterfront, and work as alongshoreman was plentiful. By the end of the 1950s, however, the implementation of containerized shipping led tothe decline of the West Side piers and many longshoremen found themselves out of work. In addition, the

construction of the Lincoln Tunnel had devastated much of Hell's Kitchen to the south of 39th Street.[17]

Ethnic conflict

In 1959, an aborted rumble between rival Irish and Puerto Rican gangs led to the notorious "Capeman" murders inwhich two innocent teenagers were killed.

By 1965, Hell's Kitchen was the home base of the Westies, a deeply violent Irish American crew aligned with theGambino crime family. It was not until the early 1980s that widespread gentrification began to alter thedemographics of the longtime working-class Irish American neighborhood. The 1980s also saw an end to theWesties' reign of terror, when the gang lost all of its power after the RICO convictions of most of its principals in1986.

Today Hell's Kitchen is an increasingly upscale neighborhood of actors and affluent young professionals, as well asresidents from the 'old days'. It has also acquired a large diverse community as residents have moved north fromChelsea.

Special Clinton district

Although the neighborhood is immediately west of New York's main business district, development lagged for morethan 30 years because of strict zoning rules called the Special Clinton District designed to protect theneighborhood's low-rise character.

When the third incarnation of Madison Square Garden at 50th Street and Eighth Avenue was torn down in 1968,New York developed a master plan calling for two to three thousand hotel rooms, 25,000 apartments, 25,000,000

square feet (2,300,000 m2) of office space, and a new super liner terminal in the neighborhood, which it describedas "blocks of antiquated and deteriorating structures of every sort." During this time a proposal was made to buildthe world's tallest building on the Madison Square Garden site and a massive convention center at 44th Street andthe Hudson River.

The district severely restricted development in the neighborhood for more than 20 years. The world's tallest buildingwas not to rise and its Madison Square site was to remain a parking lot until 1989.

Provisions of the District:

The SCD was originally split into four areas:

Preservation Area

43rd to 56th Streets between Eighth and Tenth Avenues. R-7 density, 6-story height limit on new buildings,

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Eighth Avenue was once

lined with porn stores and

theatres. The stores are

mostly gone now, but this

particular store was

highlighted in the 2003 film,

Phone Booth. Worldwide

Plaza is in the background.

This store was torn down in

December 2007.

Windermere Apartment at

57th and Ninth

suggested average apartment size of two bedrooms (this was a response to the fact that between 1960 and1970 developers had torn down 2,300 family-sized units and replaced them with 1,500 smaller units).

Perimeter AreaEighth Avenue, 42nd and 57th Streets. Bulkier development permitted to counterbalance the downzoning in

the preservation area.

Mixed Use AreaTenth and Eleventh Avenues between 43rd and 50th Streets. Mixed

residential and manufacturing. New residential development only permitted

in conjunction with manufacturing areas.

Other AreasWest of Eleventh Avenue. Industrial and waterfront uses.

The mixed use area and other area are now combined into "Other areas."

Building height in the Preservation Area cannot exceed 66 feet (20 m) or sevenstories, whichever is less.

Special permits are required for all demolition and construction in the SCD,including demolition of "any sound housing in the District" and any rehabilitationthat increases the number of dwellings in a structure. New developments,conversions, or alterations that create new units or zero bedroom units mustcontain at least 20% two bedroom apartments with a minimum room size of 168

square feet (16 m2). Alterations that reduce the percentage of two bedroom unitsare not permitted unless the resulting building meets the 20% two bedroomrequirement.

In the original provisions no building could be demolished unless it was unsound.

Windermere

As the gentrification pace increased, there were numerous reports of problemsbetween landlords and tenants. The most extreme example was the eight storyWindermere complex at the southwest corner of Ninth Avenue and 57th Street—

two blocks from Central Park.[18][19]

Built in 1881, it is the second-oldest large apartment house in Manhattan. In 1980,the then owner, Alan B. Weissman, tried to empty the building of its tenants.According to former tenants and court papers, rooms were ransacked, doors wereripped out, prostitutes were moved in, and tenants received death threats in thecampaign to empty the building. All the major New York newspapers covered thetrials that sent the Windermere's managers to jail. Although the building's landlord,Alan B. Weissman, was never linked to the harassment, he and his wife made topbilling in the 1985 edition of The Village Voice annual list, "The Dirty Dozen: New

York's Worst Landlords."[20]

Most of the tenants eventually settled and moved out of the building. As of May 2006, seven tenants remained[21]

and court orders protecting the tenants and the building allowed it to remain in derelict condition even as thesurrounding neighborhood was experiencing a dramatic burst of demolition and redevelopment. Finally, in

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Memorial to 15 firefighters

from West 48th Street

station who perished on

September 11, 2001

September 2007, the fire department evacuated those remaining seven residents from the building citing dangerous

conditions and padlocked the front door.[22] In 2008 the New York Supreme Court ruled that the owners of the

building, who include the TOA Construction Corporation of Japan, must repair it.[23]

September 11, 2001

While almost all fire stations in Manhattan lost firefighters in the September 11attacks, the hardest hit station was Engine 54, Ladder 4, Battalion 9 at 48thStreet and Eighth Avenue, which lost 15 firefighters. Given its proximity toMidtown, the station had specialized in skyscraper fires and rescues and in 2007was the second busiest firehouse in New York City, with 9,685 runs between the

two companies.[24]

Its patch reads "Pride of Midtown" and "Never Missed a Performance".Memorials dot the station's exterior walls and a granite memorial is in a park to itsnorth.

Ladder 21, the "Pride of Hell's Kitchen", located on 38th Street between Ninthand Tenth Avenues, and stationed with Engine 34, lost 7 firefighters onSeptember 11. In addition, on September 11, Engine 26 was temporarilystationed with Engine 34/Ladder 21 and lost many firefighters themselves.

Developer Larry Silverstein made part of his fortune that eventually earned himthe lease for the World Trade Center by building and managing buildings in theneighborhood. Silverstein's architect David Childs who is designing the FreedomTower designed the Time Warner Center and Worldwide Plaza buildings in the neighborhood. Signature features ofthose towers are slated for the Freedom Tower.

Boom times

Zoning has long restricted the extension of Midtown Manhattan's skyscraper development into Hell's Kitchen. TheDavid Childs designed Worldwide Plaza established a beach head when it was built in 1989 at the former MadisonSquare Garden site, a full city block between 49th and 50th Streets and between Eighth and Ninth Avenues.

The city under Michael Bloomberg relaxed zoning all over the city in the wake of the September 11 attacks. Thisled to a real-estate building boom with Hell's Kitchen getting some of the biggest projects in the city including theHearst Tower at 56th Street and Eighth Avenue.

An indication of how fast real estate prices rose in the neighborhood was a 2004 transaction involving the HowardJohnson's Motel at 52nd and Eighth Avenue. In June, Vikram Chatwal's Hampshire Hotel Group bought the moteland adjoining SIR (Studio Instrument Rental) building for $9 million. In August, they sold the property to ElAdProperties for about $43 million. Elad, which owns Plaza Hotel, is in the process of building The Link, a luxury 44-story building.

Actor and artist neighborhood

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Manhattan Plaza performing artist

residence and Film Center Cafe on

Ninth Avenue, looking south

Hell's Kitchen's gritty reputation had made its housing prices lower than elsewhere in Manhattan. Given the lowercosts in the past and its proximity to Broadway theatres, the neighborhood is a haven for aspiring actors. Manyfamous actors and entertainers have resided there, including Burt Reynolds, Rip Torn, Bob Hope, Charlton Heston,James Dean, Madonna, Jerry Seinfeld, Larry David, Alicia Keys, John Michael Bolger, and Sylvester Stallone.This is due in large part to the Actors Studio on West 44th, which rose to prominence under Lee Strasberg and isfamed for its method acting style.

With the opening of the original Improv by Budd Friedman in 1963, theclub became a hangout for singers to perform but quickly attractedcomedians, as well, turning it into the reigning comedy club of its time.Located on West 44th near the SE corner of 9th Ave, it has sinceshuttered, replaced by a restaurant.

Manhattan Plaza at 42nd Street between Ninth and Tenth Avenues wasbuilt in the 1970s to house artists. It consists of two 46-story towers with70 percent of the apartments set aside for performing artists. The Actors'Temple and Saint Malachy's Roman Catholic Church with its Actors'Chapel also testify to the long-time presence of show business people.

The neighborhood is also home to a number of broadcast and music-recording studios, including the CBS Broadcast Center at 524 West 57th

Street (also the home of Black Entertainment Television's 106 & Park show), Sony Music Studios at 460 West54th Street, Manhattan Center Studios at 311 West 34th Street, and Right Track Recording's Studio A509orchestral recording facility at West 38th Street and Tenth Avenue. The syndicated Montel Williams Show is alsotaped locally at the Unitel Studios, 433 W. 53rd Street, between Ninth and Tenth Avenues.

Comedy Central's satirical program The Daily Show is taped in Hell's Kitchen. In the summer of 2005, it movedfrom its quarters at 54th Street and 10th Avenue to a new studio in the neighborhood, at 733 Eleventh Avenue,between 51st and 52nd Streets. The old location at 54th and 10th is now home to The Colbert Report. Next doorto Colbert at 511 W. 54th St. is Ars Nova theater, home to emerging artists Joe Iconis and breakout star JesseEisenberg, among others.

The headquarters of Troma studios is located in Hell's Kitchen. The Baryshnikov Arts Center opened at 37 Arts on37th Street in 2005, the Orchestra of St. Luke's opened the DiMenna Center for Classical Music in the samebuilding in 2011. The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater opened at 55th Street and Ninth Avenue in 2006.

The Clinton Community Garden is a result of the actors living in the area. Since they mostly work at night in thelocal theatres, they took time to create a garden in a rubble-strewn lot. Eventually it became a selling point forgentrification, providing real estate agents with another selling point.

Transportation

Transportation in the area is highly diverse.

Automobile

The Lincoln Tunnel connects New York City to New Jersey. Parking lots dot the neighborhood. Eleventh

Avenue is lined with car dealerships, many of which claim to have the highest volume among all dealerships

for their brands in the country.

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Port Authority Bus Terminal at 42nd

and Eighth Avenue

Amtrak train in trench

Bus

The massive Port Authority Bus Terminal is between 40th and 42nd Streets and Eighth and Ninth Avenues.

Several New York City Bus routes (such as the M11, M42, and M50) also service the area.

Horse

Many of the horse drawn carriages from Central Park stay in stables just off the West Side Highway. It is

not uncommon to hear the clip clop of horses in the neighborhood.

There have been calls for banning horse-drawn carriages followinga handful of collisions between cars and carriages. The carriage

horses live in historic stables originally built in the 19th century, but

today boast the latest in barn design, such as fans, misting systems,

box stalls, and state of the art sprinkler systems.[citation needed]

As horses always have in densely populated urban areas, the

carriage horses live upstairs in their stables while the carriages are

parked below on the ground floor.

Water

Cruise ships frequently dock at the New York Passenger Ship Terminal in the 48th to 52nd piers called

Piers 88, 90, 92. Cruise ship horns are a common sound in the neighborhood. Several French restaurantsopened on West 51st Street to accommodate traffic from the French Line. The piers originally built in 1930

are now considered small, and some cruise traffic uses other locations. Other ship operations in the

neighborhood include Circle Line Sightseeing Cruises at West 42nd and the NY Waterway ferry service.

Rail

Hell's Kitchen begins northwest of Penn Station. Amtrak trains

going into the station run along a sunken corridor west of Tenth

Avenue. It is not uncommon to hear their train horns in theneighborhood. During the post-9/11 building boom, apartment

houses have been built over sections of the train tracks. Hell's

Kitchen is bounded on the east by the Eighth Avenue subway line,

the westernmost New York City Subway line in Midtown. The

MTA is extending the Flushing Line west from its current terminus

at Times Square to the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center at 34th

Street and Eleventh Avenue, with no intermediate stops planned(the Tenth Avenue station was originally supposed to be built at

Tenth Avenue and 41st Street as part of the extension, but it was

dropped from the official extension plans in 2007 and remains only as a shell.)

Food

Ninth Avenue is noted for its many ethnic restaurants. The Ninth Avenue Association's International Food Festival,stretches through the Kitchen from 37th to 57th Streets every May, usually on the third weekend of the month. Ithas been going on since 1974 and is one of the oldest street fairs in the city. In addition to the usual American,Caribbean, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Italian, Irish, Mexican and Thai restaurants, there are multipleAfghan, Argentine, Ethiopian, Peruvian, Turkish, Indian, Pakistani and Vietnamese restaurants. Restaurant Row islocated on West 46th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues.

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Restaurant Row on West 46th Street

Hell's Kitchen Park

Parks

Hell's Kitchen's side streets are mostly lined with trees. The neighborhood does not have many parks orrecreational area though, but smaller plots that were converted into green spaces. One of them is Hell's KitchenPark.

Education

The Success Academy Charter Schools group plans to open an

elementary school,[25] Success Academy Hell's Kitchen,[26] in the High

School of Graphic Communication Arts building in 2013.[25]

Hell's Kitchen in popular culture

The Nero Wolfe series of novels and short stories by Rex Stout.

Run for Your Life (2009), novel by James Patterson and Michael

Ledwidge

The Fountainhead (1943), novel by Ayn Rand

The Fortunate Pilgrim (1964), novel by Mario Puzo

State of Grace (1990), film by Phil JoanouDevil's Heaven (1995), novel by Thomas Adcock

Sleepers (1995), novel by Lorenzo Carcaterra, and Sleepers,

1996 film

Everybody Dies (1998), novel by Lawrence Block

"Deus Ex" (2000), videogame

Cosmopolis (2003), novel by Don DeLillo

In America (2003) by Jim SheridanMafia Summer (2005), novel by E. Duke Vincent

Jackson Steeg series novels (2006–2009) by Ira Berkowitz

Shamrock Alley (2009), novel by Ronald Malfi

The Spy (2010), novel by Clive Cussler

American Psycho (1991), novel by Bret Easton Ellis

Notable current and former residents

Notable current and former residents of Hell's Kitchen include:

The Cadillac Man aka Thomas Wagner (Born 1949), Author, Land of the Lost Souls. [27]

Robert Davi, actor best known for his role in The Goonies and Licence to Kill

Benjamin Appel (1907–1977), crime novelist.[28]

George Cain (1943–2010), author of Blueschild baby.[29]

Vanessa Carlton (born 1980), singer / songwriter.[30]

Larry David (born 1947), actor / producer of Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm.[31]

Alicia Keys (born 1981), singer and pianist.[32]

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Kenny Kramer (born 1943), lived in a Hell's Kitchen apartment across the hall from Larry David and

became the inspiration for the Cosmo Kramer character on Seinfeld.[31]

Brian Mullen (born 1962), played in the NHL for the Winnipeg Jets, New York Rangers, San Jose Sharks

and New York Islanders.[33]

Joe Mullen (born 1957), played in the NHL for the St. Louis Blues, Calgary Flames, Pittsburgh Penguins

and Boston Bruins from 1980–1997, winning three Stanley Cups.[33]

Paul O'Neill (born 1956), producer and founder of Trans-Siberian Orchestra

Jerry Orbach (1935–2004), actor. Kept an apartment on Eighth Avenue between 53rd and 54th Streets.[34]

Ilka Tanya Payán (1943–1996), Dominican-American actress and AIDS activist

Mario Puzo (1920–1999), author of The Godfather.[35]

George Raft (1895–1980), actor best known for his portrayal of tough guys and gangsters.[36]

Mickey Rourke (born 1953), actor.[37]

Boss Tweed, political figure, West 51st Street.

Reichen Lehmkuhl, winner of The Amazing Race and star of The A-List: New York

James J. Braddock ("Cinderella Man"), boxer, West 48th Street, just a few blocks from the Madison

Square Garden venue where he fought.

Chevy Chase, actor and comedian

Alice Faye, actressTony Orlando, singer

Robert Fripp, musician

Robert De Niro, actor

Stephen Blackehart, actor

Joakim Noah, basketball player

Sylvester Stallone, actor

Andrew Rannells, actorLisa Velez of Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam, singer

James Cagney, actor, was raised in Hell's Kitchen but was born in Yorkville, on the other side of Manhattan.

David Blaine, illusionist and endurance artist, lived in Hell's Kitchen for several years.

James Gunn, author and filmmaker, lived in Hell's Kitchen.

Frank Miller, writer and comic book artist

Lewis Black, comic

Zach Galligan, actorJake T. Austin, actor

Josh Peck, actor, was born in Hell's Kitchen. He grew up there but moved to Los Angeles when he was 14

to pursue his acting career after being offered a role by Nickelodeon.

Paul Cavonis, actor, was born and raised in Hell's Kitchen; his mother still resides there.

George Maharis, actor, lived in the West 40s.

Sutton Foster, stage actor

Stephan Jenkins of Third Eye Blind, musician

Tom Hanks, actor, had an apartment in Hell's Kitchen in the late 1970s/early 80s.Charlton Heston, actor, worked as a model in Hell's Kitchen from 1944 to 1947.

Lorenzo Carcaterra, author, was born and raised in Hell's Kitchen. The neighborhood is featured in his

autobiographical story "A Safe Place" as well as the novel and later film Sleepers.

The southern opening of the Amtrak tunnel known as the Freedom Tunnel is in Hell's Kitchen. The former

"shantytowns" constructed by homeless people, now cleared, gave rise to the urban legend of Mole People,

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as seen in the documentary Dark Days and in Jennifer Toth's book The Mole People: Life in the Tunnels

Beneath New York.

Tim Rose, musician, lived on West 46th street, Restaurant Row, in Hell's Kitchen for a decade or more in

the 1980s and 90s, and later referred to it as "skid row" in a song called "Because You're Rich."

"Typhoid Mary" (Mary Mallon) shared an apartment in Hell's Kitchen with her boyfriend between jobs as a

cook during the 1900s.

John Reed, authorMatt Wiese, professional wrestler, known as Horshu or Luther Reigns

Mark LoMonaco, professional wrestler, known as Bully Ray, formerly Bubba Ray DudleyJohn Goodman, actor, lived on Ninth Avenue

Graham Norton, comedian, owns property on Tenth AvenueBruce Willis, actor, lived in the West 40's between Ninth and Tenth AvenuesHenrik Lundqvist, NHL player and New York Rangers goaltender

Richard Christy, comedian, radio personality, and musicianDonald Faison, actor

Peter H. Gilmore, Church of Satan headCelia Cruz, singer, who had an apartment on West 55th Street

Carmelo Anthony, basketball player

Anthony Bourdain, chef and author [38]

Hell's Kitchen mobsters

Bill DwyerOwney Madden

Vincent "Mad Dog" CollEddie McGrath

Mickey SpillaneEdward Cummiskey

Tom DevaneyJames CoonanMickey Featherstone

References

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13. ^ Norton, the great-nephew of John Leake, founder of Leake and Watts Children's Home, is listed among early19th-century owners of considerable tracts in what is now Hell's Kitchen, with John Jacob Astor, William Cutting,Thomas Addis Emmet, Andrew Hopper, John Horn and William Wright, in "New York's New Up-town Centre;Long Acre Square of To-day and Yesterday", The New York Times, 21 September 1902(http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B06E1D91E3BE733A25752C2A96F9C946397D6CF) accessed18 April 2010.

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36. ^ via Associated Press, "'Tough guy' George raft dies of emphysema at 85" (http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=hdQVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=GBIEAAAAIBAJ&dq=george-raft%20hell's-kitchen&pg=4923%2C4855479), TheMilwaukee Sentinel, November 25, 1980. Accessed August 10, 2009. "After growing up in New York's toughHell's Kitchen area, Raft was a boxer, electrician and baseball player before landing a job as a dancer in nightclubsin the 1920s."

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External links

Clinton Community Garden (http://www.clintoncommunitygarden.org)Hell's Kitchen Neighborhood Association (http://www.hknanyc.org/hood.html)

Community Board 4 (http://www.nyc.gov/mcb4)New York Magazine neighborhood profile

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(http://nymag.com/realestate/articles/neighborhoods/hellskitchen.htm)Hell's Kitchen Neighborhood Business and Services Directory (http://www.hellskitchen.bz)

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