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Hell's Kitchen Windows
The narrowest, and possibly earliest, description of the neighborhood's boundaries were suggested by Theodore Dreiser in The Color of a Great City. Dreiser writes that when he first arrived in New York City in 1894 "it was a whim of the New York newspapers to dub that region on the West Side which lies between thirty-sixth and forty-first streets and Ninth Avenue and the Hudson River as Hell's Kitchen." Indeed, this was the dark heart of the greater area that would eventually adopt the name.
© Daniel M. Freed
Published in: Urban Color