Once upon a time in Hell's Kitchen there was a watering hole the size of a family mausoleum, stuffed inside the 1/9 downtown subway at 50th and Broadway. Just before the turnstiles, the space's single beacon was a red lightbulb casting a faint glow on yesterday's news: The bar's windows were covered in folds of black-and-white tabloids like a permanent work under construction.
Few chefs are as synonymous with their signature dish as British celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay is with his beef Wellington. With roots in both French and British cuisine, beef Wellington is a dish of tender beef filet encased in mushrooms, Parma ham, and pastry. It is also one of Ramsay's most famous dishes, appearing on the menu at most of his restaurants.
After the final public hearing on the proposed Avenir casino in Hell's Kitchen, the Community Advisory Committee overseeing the project is now tasked with weighing two starkly different visions of the neighborhood's future one cast as a community in dire need of a shot in the arm, the other as a family-friendly enclave already choked with congestion that a casino would ruin.
A Manhattan grand jury has indicted a 37-year-old man accused of choking a woman until she lost consciousness and sexually assaulting her on a Midtown sidewalk last month, District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced Wednesday. Anthony Smith, of NYC, is accused of attempting to forcibly rape a 21-year-old woman on Aug. 10 in Hell's Kitchen, according to the indictment filed in New York State Supreme Court. The grand jury charged him with two counts of attempted rape in the first degree, two counts of first-degree sexual abuse, and two counts of strangulation.
The partnership between Harlem Shake and HELL'S KITCHEN celebrates the vibrancy of New York, highlighting Alicia Keys' roots in Hell's Kitchen and Harlem Shake's dedication to its neighborhood.
