Hell's Kitchen encompasses New York City's West Side between 14th and 52nd Streets, and Eighth Avenue and the waterfront. [see HellsKitchen.Net ]

In The Godfather Papers and Other Confessions Puzo writes that his family "grew up together on 10th Ave, between 13th and 31st Streets, part of the area called Hell's Kitchen... in the heart of New York's Neapolitan ghetto. Beneath [their] windows were the vast black iron gardens of the New York Central Railroad."

JG

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