Hell's Kitchen

Hell's Kitchen (also known as Clinton) is a neighborhood of New York City. It is the area between 34th and 59th Streets, from 8th Avenue to the Hudson River.

Hell's Kitchen in popular entertainment

Hell's Kitchen is a popular slum setting within fiction:

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Slum - Fiction

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• Newspaper mogul Gail Wynand in Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead worked his way from poverty in Hell's Kitchen to great wealth.
• The Marvel comics fictional character Nick Fury was born and raised in Hell's Kitchen.
• The Marvel Comics superhero Daredevil battles crime in Hell's Kitchen.
• Matthew Scudder, the star of a long-running series of detective novels by Lawrence Block, lives in Hell's Kitchen.
• "Hell's Kitchen" is the title of an instrumental song from Dream Theater's album Falling Into Infinity.
• Features in the work of Eugene O'Neill, such as the bar setting in The Iceman Cometh. O'Neill was known to have frequented bars in the area.
• The boys from Sleepers also come from Hell's Kitchen.
• The 1990 film State of Grace starring Sean Penn, Ed Harris and Gary Oldman is set in Hell's Kitchen.
• Hell's Kitchen is the title of a 1939 film, featuring Ronald Reagan and members of the Dead End Kids.
• The neighborhood was the setting for West Side Story.
• Latin hip-hop singer Lisa Lisa (aka Lisa Velez) hails from the neigborhood, and her 1991 album release is named Straight Outta Hell's Kitchen.
• Sergeant Max Greevey from the TV series Law & Order hailed from Hell's Kitchen.
• In the PC game Deus Ex, the protagonist JC Denton meets important characters and fights terrorists and UNATCO troops in 2052's Hell's Kitchen. This area is a dark slum, and all action there takes place at night; the game presents a dystopian future, with many such dark areas.
• "Hell's Kitchen" is featured in the premiere episode on a NY TV series, Cool in Your Code, on August 9, 2005.
• Grammy-winning R&B/soul songstress Alicia Keys hails from Hell's Kitchen.
• "Hell's Kitchen" is referenced in the lyrics of the song "New York City," on The Cult's album, "Sonic Temple"
• Kenny Kramer, the real-life inspiration for the character Cosmo Kramer on the NBC sitcom Seinfeld, lives in the Kitchen, and Seinfeld co-creator Larry David was one of his neighbors.