Magnum Photos
Photographers 
Photographers 
Decades 
Decades 
Orientation 
Orientation 
Color 
Color 
Material 
Material 
Level 
Level 

Distro - Hell's Kitchen. 2002 

Bruce Gilden 

No one can say for sure how the neighborhood got its name. One story has it that a notoriously horrid tenement house lent its name to the area. Another story claims the name came about when a 19th century cop was watching a riot on West 39th Street and quipped, "Hell's a mild climate; this is Hell's Kitchen."

Whatever the origin of the name, Hell's Kitchen is the area of Manhattan between 34th Street and 59th Street that extends west from Eighth Avenue to the Hudson River.

It has been home to New York's poorest immigrants, deplorable tenement houses, sweatshop factories, slaughterhouses,... 

Bruce Gilden 2002

USA. New York City. 2002. Pigeons on Ninth Avenue. 

Bruce Gilden 2002

USA. New York City. 2002. A regular at Rudy's Bar and Grill on... 

Bruce Gilden 2002

USA. New York City. 2002. The front of Rudy's Bar and Grill on... 

Bruce Gilden 2002

USA. New York City. 2002. A regular having a Sunday drink at... 

Bruce Gilden 2002

USA. New York City. 2002. Man smoking in Rudy's Bar and Grill... 

Bruce Gilden 2002

USA. New York City. 2002. Two guys inside the Holland Bar on... 

Bruce Gilden 2002

USA. New York City. 2002. Actor/writer Bobby Spillane. When he... 

Bruce Gilden 2002

USA. New York City. 2002. Two guys in Rudy's Bar and Grill on... 

Bruce Gilden 2002

USA. New York City. 2002. Grocery storefront in Hell's Kitchen.... 

Bruce Gilden 2002

USA. New York City. 2002. Guys walking in Hell's Kitchen. 

Bruce Gilden 2002

USA. New York City. 2002. Man walking on 9th Avenue. 

Bruce Gilden 2002

USA. New York City. 2002. Lady crossing 9th Avenue and 42nd Street.... 

Bruce Gilden 2002

USA. New York City. 2002. Alcoholic on 9th Avenue. 

Bruce Gilden 2002

USA. New York City. 2002. Hell's Kitchen Street. 

Bruce Gilden 2002

USA. New York City. 2002. Man on street in Hell's Kitchen. 

Bruce Gilden 2002

USA. New York City. 2002. Inside the Holland Bar on 9th Avenue... 

Bruce Gilden 2002

USA. New York City. 2002. A construction worker in Rudy's Bar... 

Bruce Gilden 2002

USA. New York City. 2002. A regular at Rudy's Bar and Grill on... 

Bruce Gilden 2002

USA. New York City. 2002. Inside the Holland Bar on 9th Avenue... 

Bruce Gilden 2002

USA. New York City. 2002. Inside the Holland Bar on 9th Avenue... 

Bruce Gilden 2002

USA. New York City. 2002. Man with cat in a Hell's Kitchen storefront... 

Bruce Gilden 2002

USA. New York City. 2002. Car outside the Market Diner on 11th... 

Bruce Gilden 2002

USA. New York City. 2002. American flag and fire escapes on old... 

Bruce Gilden 2002

USA. New York City. 2002. Pigeons by an old apartment building... 
Display 
Items per page