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Hell's Kitchen (U.S
Hell's Kitchen, also known as Clinton, is a neighborhood on the West Side of Midtown Manhattan in New York City. It is considered to be bordered by 34th Street (or 41st Street) to the south, 59th Street to the north, Eighth Avenue to the east, and the Hudson River to the west. Until the 1970s, Hell's Kitchen was a bastion of poor and working-class Irish Americans. Though its gritty reputation had long held real-estate prices below those of most other areas of Manhattan, by 1969, the City Planning Commission's ''Plan for New York City'' reported that development pressures related to its Midtown location were driving people of modest means from the area. Since the early 1980s, the area has been gentrifying, and rents have risen rapidly. Home of the Actors Studio training school, and adjacent to Broadway theatres, Hell's Kitchen has long been a home to fledgling and working actors. Today, the area has a large LGBTQ population and is home to a large number of LGBTQ bars and bus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Manhattan Neighborhoods
This is a list of neighborhoods in the New York City Boroughs of New York City, borough of Manhattan arranged geographically from the north of the island to the south. The following approximate definitions are used: *Upper Manhattan is the area above 96th Street (Manhattan), 96th Street. *Midtown Manhattan is the area between 34th Street (Manhattan), 34th Street and 59th Street (Manhattan), 59th Street. *Lower Manhattan is the area below 14th Street (Manhattan), 14th Street. *West Side (Manhattan), West Side is the area west of Fifth Avenue; East Side (Manhattan), East Side is the area east of Fifth Avenue. Neighborhood names and boundaries are not officially defined. They may vary or change from time to time due to demographic and economic variables. Uptown neighborhoods Midtown neighborhoods Between Midtown and Lower Manhattan †Large scale developments Lower Manhattan neighborhoods †Large scale developments Islands * Ellis Island * Governors Island * Liberty Islan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
