Editing Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan (section)

==In popular culture==

===Comics===
*''The Kitchen'', an eight-issue [[Vertigo Comics]] miniseries, is a female-driven crime drama set in Hell's Kitchen.<ref>{{cite web |title='The Kitchen' revisits 1970s 'gangster Wild West' |website=[[USA Today]] |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/2014/11/10/the-kitchen-comic-book-exclusive-preview/18785841/ |access-date=May 8, 2018 |archive-date=May 8, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180508191207/https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/2014/11/10/the-kitchen-comic-book-exclusive-preview/18785841/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
*The [[Marvel Comics|Marvel]] superhero [[Daredevil (Marvel Comics character)|Matt Murdock / Daredevil]] was born and raised in Hell's Kitchen; further, most of the comic's run takes place in the area.<ref name=":0">{{cite web |last=Cavanaugh |first=Patrick |date=January 8, 2016 |title=Return to Hell's Kitchen in Exclusive ''Marvel's Daredevil'' Poster & Photos |url=http://marvel.com/news/tv/25608/return_to_hells_kitchen_in_exclusive_marvels_daredevil_poster_photos |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160113232704/http://marvel.com/news/tv/25608/return_to_hells_kitchen_in_exclusive_marvels_daredevil_poster_photos |archive-date=January 13, 2016 |access-date=June 28, 2016 |publisher=Marvel Comics |df=mdy}}</ref>

===Books===
*The character [[The Fountainhead#Gail Wynand|Gail Wynand]] in [[Ayn Rand]]'s 1943 novel ''[[The Fountainhead]]'' grew up in Hell's Kitchen. Several chapters in the book are extensive flashbacks to his childhood and youth there. At the end of the book, he buys up several blocks of Hell's Kitchen, in which to build the world's tallest skyscraper.{{citation needed|date=April 2020}}
*Apollo, the protagonist from [[Rick Riordan]]'s 2016 novel ''[[The Hidden Oracle]]'', crashes in a Hell's Kitchen dumpster after being turned mortal, and meets and is saved from muggers by his companion Meg McCaffrey there.{{citation needed|date=February 2022}}
*The titular character in [[Taylor Jenkins Reid]]'s 2017 novel ''[[The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo]]'' was born in Hell's Kitchen.<ref>[https://www.libraryjournal.com/review/the-seven-husbands-of-evelyn-hugo "Review: ''The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo''"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220124001700/https://www.libraryjournal.com/review/the-seven-husbands-of-evelyn-hugo |date=January 24, 2022 }} by Jennifer Mills, ''[[Library Journal]]'', 1 April 2017</ref>
*''City of Girls'' (2019) by [[Elizabeth Gilbert]] is set in Hell's Kitchen in the 1940s.<ref>Thomas-Kennedy, Jackie. [https://www.startribune.com/review-city-of-girls-by-elizabeth-gilbert/510930352/ "Review: ''City of Girls,'' by Elizabeth Gilbert; Fiction: Elizabeth Gilbert's chatty, freewheeling narrator overcomes most obstacles easily in this love song to Manhattan."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200923222138/https://www.startribune.com/review-city-of-girls-by-elizabeth-gilbert/510930352/ |date=September 23, 2020 }}, ''[[Star Tribune]]'', June 7, 2019. Accessed August 10, 2020. "She begins in 1940, when, after being 'excused' from Vassar 'on account of never having attended classes,' she moves to Hell's Kitchen and into the Lily Playhouse with her Aunt Peg and Peg's partner, Olive, a woman billed in public and in fact as Peg's 'secretary'."</ref>
*Patrick Bateman in Bret Easton Ellis' ''[[American Psycho]]'' (1991) regularly disposed of his victims in Hell's Kitchen, as well as picking up several prostitutes, such as the returning character Christie.

===Television===
*''[[Route 66 (TV series)|Route 66]]'' (1960–63), TV show&nbsp;– [[Buz Murdock]], one of the lead characters, grew up in Hell's Kitchen.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6Kmizuhifw4C&pg=PA273 |page=273 |title=Route 66 Still Kicks: Driving America's Main Street |first=Rick |last=Antonson |publisher=[[Dundurn Press]] |year=2012 |isbn=9781459704374}}</ref>
*''[[Daredevil (TV series)|Daredevil]]'' and ''[[Daredevil: Born Again]]'', adaptations of the [[Daredevil (Marvel Comics character)|comic series and character of the same name]], are set in Hell's Kitchen. [[Matt Murdock (Marvel Cinematic Universe)|Matt Murdock]]'s alter ego as a secretive and intimidating vigilante is first known to the public and various crime organizations as "The Man in Black" and later "The Devil of Hell's Kitchen" before his official branding as "Daredevil".<ref name=":0" />
*''[[Criminal Minds]]'', In season one, episode 17, a victim of the latest Unsub was found dead in his art studio in Hell's Kitchen.

===Film===
*''[[The Devil's Party]]'' (1938), a film by [[Ray McCarey]] based on the novel ''Hell's Kitchen Has a Pantry'' by [[Borden Chase]], is set in Hell's Kitchen.<ref>{{Internet Archive film|id=the_devils_party|name=The Devil's Party}}, [[intertitle]] at 1m10s</ref>
*''[[Fail Safe (1964 film)|Fail Safe]]'' (1964), film by [[Sidney Lumet]].<ref>{{cite book |title=New York Times Book of New York: Stories of the People, the Streets, and the Life of the City Past and Present |date=May 20, 2009 |publisher=Running Press |isbn=9781603763691 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=abTfAgAAQBAJ |access-date=May 8, 2018 |archive-date=April 8, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230408195653/https://books.google.com/books?id=abTfAgAAQBAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>
*''[[Taxi Driver]]'' (1976), film by [[Martin Scorsese]], filmed and set largely in Hell's Kitchen.<ref>{{cite web |title=''Taxi Driver'' Movie Review & Film Summary (1976) |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-taxi-driver-1976 |access-date=May 8, 2018 |first=Roger |last=Ebert |author-link=Roger Ebert |archive-date=December 30, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181230080324/https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-taxi-driver-1976 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*''[[State of Grace (1990 film)|State of Grace]]'' (1990), film by [[Phil Joanou]] set in Hell's Kitchen<ref>[https://www.sbs.com.au/movies/review/wild-irish-bloodbath-hells-kitchen "A wild Irish bloodbath in Hell's Kitchen"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201007155015/https://www.sbs.com.au/movies/review/wild-irish-bloodbath-hells-kitchen |date=October 7, 2020 }}, review bt Don Groves, [[SBS World Movies]], January 1, 2009</ref>
*''[[Sleepers (film)|Sleepers]]'' (1996), film by [[Barry Levinson]] based on Lorenzo Carcaterra's 1995 novel of the same name.<ref>{{cite web |title=''Sleepers'' Debate Renewed: How True Is a 'True Story'? |author=[[Bernard Weinraub]] |website=The New York Times |date=October 22, 1996 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/22/movies/sleepers-debate-renewed-how-true-is-a-true-story.html |access-date=January 7, 2022 |archive-date=May 4, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190504032951/https://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/22/movies/sleepers-debate-renewed-how-true-is-a-true-story.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
*''[[In America (film)|In America]]'' (2002), film by [[Jim Sheridan]], set in 1985. The family settles in Hell's Kitchen.<ref>{{cite journal |last=McGarrity |first=Maria |title=Hell's Kitchen as Contact Zone: The Essentialized African in Jim Sheridan's ''In America'' |journal=CLA Journal |volume=51 |number=3 |date=March 2008 |pages=304–323 |jstor=44325430}}</ref>
*''[[Ash Wednesday (2002 film)|Ash Wednesday]]'' (2002), by [[Edward Burns]], set in the Hell's Kitchen of the early 1980s<ref>{{cite web |title=''Ash Wednesday'' (2002) |website=Rotten Tomatoes |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1119133_ash_wednesday |access-date=May 8, 2018 |archive-date=December 2, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171202235532/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1119133_ash_wednesday |url-status=live }}</ref>
*''[[The Kitchen (2019 film)|The Kitchen]]'' (2019), by [[Andrea Berloff]], set in the Hell's Kitchen of the late 1970s.

===Video games===
*''[[Deus Ex (video game)|Deus Ex]]'' (2000) features a level set in Hell's Kitchen.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.pcgamer.com/revisiting-deus-ex-ion-storms-classic-cyberpunk-rpg/ |title=Revisiting ''Deus Ex'', Ion Storm's classic cyberpunk RPG |last=Kelly |first=Andy |date=June 22, 2020 |website=[[PC Gamer]] |publisher=[[Future US]] |access-date=February 1, 2022 |quote=A great example of the game's reactivity can be found in the Hell's Kitchen level. |archive-date=February 15, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180215143712/https://www.pcgamer.com/revisiting-deus-ex-ion-storms-classic-cyberpunk-rpg/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Music===
*The album ''[[Falling into Infinity]]'' by [[Dream Theater]] contains an instrumental named "Hell's Kitchen".<ref>{{cite web | url=https://dreamtheater.net/discography/falling-into-infinity/ | title=Falling into Infinity | access-date=June 10, 2022 | archive-date=May 23, 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220523231543/https://dreamtheater.net/discography/falling-into-infinity/ | url-status=live }}</ref>