Where Is Hell’s Kitchen?
Where is Clinton and Midtown West?
Hell’s Kitchen is a Manhattan neighborhood in New York City and it borders the Hudson River. It provides infrastructure support such as hospitals, warehouses and transportation to the Midtown Manhattan business district. Hell’s Kitchen, as the name suggests, has a rough reputation among the locals. It is often used by the people belonging to the underworld to run their activities. The city is also known as ‘Clinton and Midtown West’ or simply ‘the Midwest’.
The area was once an agricultural economy but the Hudson railroad changed the conditions; the local economy industrialized. The area was once inhabited by the poor Irish-Americans who worked in the factories. During the last years of the 19th century and the early years of the 20th century the population increased dramatically. The Increase in population also brought its own problems – crime was one of them. Criminal gangs were controlled the neighborhood in this period and the violence escalated in the later decades. One of the gangs was ‘Hell’s Kitchen Gang’ and it was one of the most powerful criminal gangs of the New York City. The crime rates have dampened down, however, since the 1950s but many people still not consider the neighborhood a decent place to live in for a decent man.
