Hell's Kitchen

Neighborhood · Manhattan

West of Eighth Avenue, Hell's Kitchen runs up Manhattan's West Side to 59th Street along the Hudson River, with the Theater District and Times Square to the east.

  • 0.66 square miles
  • 59,524 residents, 2020 Census
  • 93 street corners
  • 2 subway stations
  • 18 bus routes

Accounts of how it got its name vary, and since 1959 the city has also called it Clinton, after DeWitt Clinton Park at Eleventh Avenue and 52nd Street. Irish immigrants once found work on the Hudson River docks and railroad here, and today Ninth Avenue is known for its many restaurants and an international food festival held since 1974. At Pier 86, the aircraft carrier Intrepid, commissioned in 1943, is a museum that also displays the space shuttle Enterprise.

Sources: Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan (Wikipedia); Intrepid Museum.

Map

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Hell's Kitchen borders three areas, and 9th Avenue holds more of its corners than any other street, 20 of 93.

Street map of Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, outlined among Midtown-Times Square, Chelsea-Hudson Yards and Upper West Side-Lincoln Square, with its two subway stations and De Witt Clinton Park.Upper West Side-Lincoln SquareMidtown-Times SquareChelsea-Hudson Yards
  • Hell's Kitchen
  • A neighboring area
  • Park
  • A station in the list
  • Another station

Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Subway stations

  • 50 St lines C E
  • 42 St-Port Authority Bus Terminal lines A C E accessible

Getting around

Two subway stations and buses on 18 routes stop in or at the edge of Hell's Kitchen.

  • 2 subway stations
  • 1 of them listed by the MTA as fully accessible
  • 13 local bus routes
  • 5 express bus routes

Local bus routes

  • M5
  • M7
  • M10
  • M11
  • M12
  • M20
  • M31
  • M34A-SBS
  • M42
  • M50
  • M57
  • M104
  • T260

Express bus routes

  • SIM8
  • SIM22
  • SIM25
  • SIM26
  • SIM30

Safety record

Between 2021 and 2025, its corners averaged more police-reported crashes than the average Manhattan corner.

  • 2,258 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 24.3 a corner, on average
  • 13.4 the average Manhattan corner
  • 7 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 71 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
65
Accessible pedestrian signals
25
Turn calming
10
Safety Improvement Projects
6

Camera tickets

In 2025 its corners had more school-zone speed camera tickets than bus-lane or red-light tickets.

  • 0 red-light camera tickets
  • 20,426 school-zone speed camera tickets at six corners
  • 140 bus-lane camera tickets at one corner
Most speed tickets
10th Avenue & West 57th Street, 14,328
Most bus-lane tickets
8th Avenue & West 42nd Street, 140

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 59,524 residents in Hell's Kitchen, about 90,200 per square mile.

  • 39,047 homes, 2020 Census
  • 9,767 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 1,072 residential lots hold buildings from 1920 or earlier, and 84% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

NYCHA development

One NYCHA development, which NYCHA names by a building's address, lies wholly or partly within Hell's Kitchen.

Parks and landmarks

Parkland
8.6 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
De Witt Clinton Park (5.8 acres), Gutenberg Playground (0.6 acre) and Hell's Kitchen Park (0.6 acre)
Designated landmarks
The Actors Studio; the McGraw-Hill Building; the Eleventh District Municipal Court; and the Martin Beck Theater, now the Al Hirschfeld Theater, among others

Streets and trees

Trees
2,675 in NYC Parks' records, most often thornless honeylocust, maidenhair tree and Callery pear
Street with the most corners
9th Avenue, with 20 of the area's 93
Height above sea level
From 12 feet at 11th Avenue & West 43rd Street to 85 feet at 9th Avenue & West 57th Street
Honorary street names
2 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists 22 schools and one library in Hell's Kitchen.

Public schools
17
Charter and private schools
5
Library
Columbus Library

Bike share and public art

By the station list of October 3, 2026, 21 bike-share stations stand in Hell's Kitchen. The City's public art inventory lists three works in the area: Clinton War Memorial (1929), Private Passage (2005) and Wall Drawing #1252: Scribbles for Pier 88 (2008).

  • 21 bike-share stations
  • 3 works of public art

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 1,031 major felonies at places in Hell's Kitchen.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Hell's Kitchen

  • 970 major felonies in 2024
  • 3,097 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Hell's Kitchen, the NYPD recorded another 361 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 23.4 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Hell's Kitchen.

Police precincts
18th (most of the area), 14th, 10th
Major felonies recorded at places in Hell's Kitchen, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 394 major felonies at places in Hell's Kitchen, against 537 in the same months of 2025.

Sources: the NYPD's Complaint Data Historic, updated April 28, 2026, and Complaint Data Current (Year To Date), updated July 27, 2026, on NYC Open Data. Figures to June 30, 2026.

Street corners

How the figures above are measured: Methodology.