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Hell's Kitchen (also known as Clinton) is a neighborhood of New York City that includes the area between 34th Street and 57th Street, from 8th Avenue to the Hudson River. The north and south boundaries, however, are disputed; author Lloyd R. Morris defines the northern boundary as 40th Street in his book, Incredible New York (ISBN 0405069286). Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the state of New York and the entire United States. ...
Eighth Avenue is a north-south avenue on the West Side of Manhattan in New York City, carrying northbound traffic. ...
View of the Hudson in the 1880s showing Jersey City The Hudson River, called Muh-he-kun-ne-tuk in Mahican, is a river running mainly through New York State but partly forming the boundary between the states of New York and New Jersey. ...
Throughout its history, Hell's Kitchen has figured prominently in the New York City underworld, especially in Irish-American organized crime circles. Gangsters like Owney Madden, bootleggers like Bill Dwyer, and Westies leaders Jimmy Coonan and Mickey Featherstone were Hell's Kitchen natives. Nickname: The Big Apple Official website: City of New York Government Counties (Boroughs) Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Geographical characteristics Area Total 468. ...
Irish population density in the United States, 1872. ...
Owney The Killer Madden (1892-April 24, 1965) was a leading Irish gangster in Manhattan during Prohibition. ...
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William Vincent Dwyer, known as Big Bill Dwyer, was an early Prohibition gangster and bootlegger in New York during the 1920s. ...
The Westies are a predominantly Irish American organized crime gang hailing from the Hells Kitchen area of the West Side of Manhattan in New York City. ...
James Coonan (born c1947) is an Irish American mobster from New York City who lead the Westies gang during the late 1970s and early 1980s. ...
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Once a bastion of poor and working-class Irish-Americans, in recent years Hell's Kitchen has undergone tremendous gentrification, due to its proximity to the theater district and the financial center of Manhattan. Irish Americans are residents or citizens of the United States who claim Irish ancestry. ...
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As far back as 1959, real-estate developers hoping to accelerate gentrification began using the name Clinton, taken from New York governor DeWitt Clinton, who once owned a farm in the area. This is a list of the Governors of New York. ...
DeWitt Clinton Clinton Memorial at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn NY DeWitt Clinton (March 2, 1769 – February 11, 1828) was an early American politician. ...
Several different explanations exist for the original name. An early use of the phrase appears in a comment Davy Crockett made about another notorious Irish slum in Manhattan, Five Points. According to the Irish Cultural Society of the Garden City Area: The factual accuracy of this article is disputed. ...
Five Points (or The Five Points) was a notorious slum centered on the intersection of Worth St. ...
- In 1835, [when] Davy Crockett said, "In my part of the country, when you meet an Irishman, you find a 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.[1]
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 refer to a tenement on 54th as the first "Hell's Kitchen." Another explanation points to an infamous building at 39th as the true original. 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. Whatever the origin of the name, it fit.[2]
Local historian Mary Clark adds a probably-apocryphal anecdote when she states the name: The Hells Kitchen Gang was a New York street gang during the late nineteenth century. ...
- ...first appeared in print on September 22, 1881 when a New York Times reporter went to the West 30s with a police guide to get details of a multiple murder there. He referred to a particularly infamous tenement at 39th Street and 10th Avenue as "Hell's Kitchen," and said that the entire section was "probably the lowest and filthiest in the city." According to this version, 39th Street between 9th and 10th Avenues became known as Hell's Kitchen and the name was later expanded to the surrounding streets. Another version ascribes the name's origins to a German restaurant in the area known as Heil's Kitchen, after its proprietors. But the most common version traces it to the story of Dutch Fred The Cop, a veteran policeman, who with his rookie partner, was watching a small riot on West 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."[3]
Today, most residents of the area, and most New Yorkers in general, refer to the area as "Hell's Kitchen," with "Clinton" being the name favored by the municipality. The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ...
History The beginnings of the neighborhood that would become known as Hell's Kitchen start in the mid 19th century, when immigrants from Ireland, most of whom were refugees from the Great Potato Famine began settling on the west side of Manhattan in shantytowns along the Hudson River. Many of these immigrants found work on the docks nearby, or along the railroad which carried freight into the city along 11th avenue. Bridget ODonnell and her two children during the famine The Great Famine or the Great Hunger (Irish: An Gorta Mór or An Drochshaol), known more commonly outside of Ireland as the Irish Potato Famine, is the name given to a famine in Ireland between 1845 and 1849. ...
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After the American Civil War the population increased exponentially, as tenements were erected and increased immigration added to the neighborhood's congestion. Many in this poverty stricken area turned to gang life and the neighborhood soon became known as the "most dangerous area on the American Continent." At the turn of the century, the neighborhood was controlled by the violent Gopher Gang, led by the notorious Owney Madden. Combatants United States of America Confederate States of America Commanders Abraham Lincoln†Ulysses S. Grant Jefferson Davis Robert E. Lee Strength 2,213,363 1,064,200 Casualties KIA: 110,100 Total dead: 359,500 Wounded: 275,200 KIA: 94,000 Total dead: 258,000 Wounded: 137,000+ The American...
The Gopher Gang was an early 20th century New York street gang known for its members including Goo Goo Knox, James Biff Ellison, and Owney Madden. ...
Owney The Killer Madden (1892-April 24, 1965) was a leading Irish gangster in Manhattan during Prohibition. ...
The violence escalated during the 1920s, as Prohibition was implemented. The many warehouses in the district served as ideal breweries for the bootleggers and rumrunners who controlled the illicit liquor. Gradually the earlier gangs such as the Hell's Kitchen Gang were transformed into organized crime entities and Owney Madden, the one time leader of the Gopher Gang, became one of the most powerful mobsters in New York. Prohibition agents destroying barrels of alcohol. ...
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Rum Runner may refer to: Rum-running, the practice of illegally smuggling alcoholic beverages to avoid taxes or prohibitions Rum Runner nightclub in Birmingham, England This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. ...
The Hells Kitchen Gang was a New York street gang during the late nineteenth century. ...
Owney The Killer Madden (1892-April 24, 1965) was a leading Irish gangster in Manhattan during Prohibition. ...
The Gopher Gang was an early 20th century New York street gang known for its members including Goo Goo Knox, James Biff Ellison, and Owney Madden. ...
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After the repeal of Prohibition, many of the organized crime elements moved into other rackets, such as illegal gambling and union shakedowns. The postwar era was characterized by a flourishing waterfront, and work as a longshoreman was plentiful. By the end of the 1950's, however, the implementation of containerized shipping led to the 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. Prohibition agents destroying barrels of alcohol. ...
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By 1965, Hell's Kitchen was the home base of the Westies, a deeply violent Irish-American crew aligned with the Gambino crime family. It was not until the early 1980s that widespread gentrification began to alter the demographics of the longtime working-class Irish-American neighborhood. The 1980s also saw an end to the Westies reign, when the gang collapsed after the RICO convictions of most of its principals in 1986. The Westies are a predominantly Irish American organized crime gang hailing from the Hells Kitchen area of the West Side of Manhattan in New York City. ...
Irish population density in the United States, 1872. ...
The Gambino crime family is one of the Five Families that controls organized crime activities based in New York City, USA, within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the Mafia (or La Cosa Nostra). ...
Gentrification (a. ...
Irish population density in the United States, 1872. ...
The Westies are a predominantly Irish American organized crime gang hailing from the Hells Kitchen area of the West Side of Manhattan in New York City. ...
Today Hell's Kitchen is a mixed neighborhood of yuppies, artists, hipsters, longtime Irish, Puerto Rican, and Dominican residents, and an increasing number of gays. Yuppie is short for Young Urban Professional. It is used to describe a demographic profile: people, usually between their late twenties and early thirties, generally with graduate degrees. ...
A hipster is a person who derives their identity largely through their association with a subculture which has been deemed hip, a word taken from African American Vernacular English (AAVE). ...
A vibrant neighborhood Hell's Kitchen is presently known as one of the most popular neighborhoods for dining in the city, both by locals and tourists. One of the city's biggest street fairs, 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.
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 West 54th Street, and Right Track Recording's Studio A509 orchestral recording facility at West 38th Street and 10th Avenue. The syndicated Montel Williams show is also taped locally at the Unitel Studios, 433 W. 53rd Street, between Ninth and Tenth Avenues. The CBS Broadcast Center is a television and radio production facility located in New York City. ...
Black Entertainment Television is a U.S. cable network targeted towards African-American and other ethnic audiences in the United States like Hispanics. ...
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// Right Track Recording Studio A509 Right Track Recording is a four-studio state of the art Recording Studio located in the heart of Midtown Manhattan. ...
Montel Brian Anthony Williams (born July 3, 1956) is an American television talk-show host. ...
Comedy Central's satirical program, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, is also taped in Hell's Kitchen — recently trading one local studio for another. In the summer of 2005 it moved from its quarters at 54th Street and 10th Avenue to a new studio in the neighborhood, at 733 11th Avenue, between 51st and 52nd Streets. Comedy Central is a cable television channel in the United States. ...
Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart on the set of The Daily Show The Daily Show (currently The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, also known as TDS to fans and staffers) is a half-hour satirical fake news program produced by and run on the Comedy Central cable television network in...
The CUNY branch John Jay College of Criminal Justice is located in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood. The John Jay College of Criminal Justice is a criminal justice college in New York City which has about 12,000 FTE (Full Time Enrollment) students, including traditional, pre-career undergraduate students and those pursuing master’s degrees in several disciplines. ...
The headquarters of Troma studios is located in Hell's Kitchen. Troma is a film production and distribution company, started by Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz that, since 1974, has been producing low budget independent movies non-stop. ...
The neighborhood is served by zip codes 10019 and 10036.
Trivia - Actor Sylvester Stallone was born in Hell's Kitchen on July 6, 1946 to Sicilian immigrant parents.
- Mario Puzo was born in Hell´s Kitchen
- Actor John Ross Bowie is from Hell's Kitchen.
- Actor George Raft was a Hell's Kitchen native.
- Singer & Actress Lisa Velez is a Hell's Kitchen native.
- Singer Alicia Keys grew up in Hell's Kitchen.
- In the fictional Marvel Universe, Hell's Kitchen is the protectorate of Daredevil.
- Hell's Kitchen features in the song "New York City" by rock band The Cult.
- Dream Theater's Falling Into Infinity, recorded at Avatar Studios in Hell's Kitchen, features a song named Hell's Kitchen, an obvious reference to the location of the studio.
- Aerosmith's Lightning Strikes features the lyric "The lid's gonna blow up in Hell's Kitchen". The video includes the band as street toughs in the back alleys of Hell's Kitchen.
- Hell's Kitchen features prominently in the video game Deus Ex.
Sylvester Stallone in the contender Sylvester Enzio Stallone (born July 6, 1946 in New York City) is an American film actor, director, producer, and screenwriter. ...
July 6 is the 187th day of the year (188th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 178 days remaining. ...
1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ...
Sicily (Sicilia in Italian and Sicilian) is an autonomous region of Italy and the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, with an area of 25,700 sq. ...
Mario Puzo Mario Puzo (October 15, 1920 – July 2, 1999) was an American author known for his fictional books about the Mafia. ...
Raft in They Drive by Night George Raft (September 26, 1895 - November 24, 1980) was an American film actor most closely identified with his portrayals of gangsters in crime melodramas of the 1930s and 1940s. ...
Lisa Lisa (born Lisa Velez on January 15, 1967) and her band Cult Jam were one of the original Freestyle groups of the 1980s. ...
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Deus Ex (commonly abbreviated DX) is a first-person shooter/role-playing computer game developed by Ion Storm Inc. ...
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