Originally posted by J Geoff:
Hell's Kitchen encompasses New York City's West Side between 14th and 52nd Streets, and Eighth Avenue and the waterfront.
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... JG[/QB]
Maybe it was Hell's Kitchen then, but today the area between 14th and 34th Street west of 6th Avenue is considered "Chelsea". It's a very gentrified, primarily gay residential area.
