Clinton

Clinton, previously recognized as Hell's Kitchen stretches between 34th Street and 59th Street, from 8th Avenue to the Hudson River. The neighborhood provides transportation, hospital and warehouse infrastructure support to the Midtown Manhattan business district.  Various Manhattan ethnic conflicts in this area has formed the basis of the musical and film West Side Story.  Once a bastion of poor and working-class Irish Americans, over the last three decades of the 20th century and into the new millennium, Clinton has undergone change as a result of its proximity to Midtown. Today, a great number of actors reside in the neighborhood due to its proximity to the Broadway theaters and Actors Studio training school.

The neighborhood is also home to a number of broadcast and music-recording studios, including the CBS Broadcast Center at 524 West 57th Street (also the home of Black Entertainment Television's 106 & Park show) and Sony Music Studios at 460 West 54th Street. About every conceivable form of transportation, including horses, ocean going ships, and airplanes, has some form of infrastructure in the neighborhood. Ninth Avenue is noted for its many ethnic restaurants. The Ninth Avenue Association's International Food Festival, stretches through the Kitchen from 37th to 57th Streets every May, usually on the third weekend of the month. It has been going on since 1974 and is one of the oldest street fairs in the city.