    
Title: Hell's Kitchen Description: Hell's Kitchen, the most notorious center of crime and skullduggery in the city, located on the north side of Thirty-ninth Street, between Ninth and Tenth Avenues, a name that was later given to the entire district; at the time of this illustration, the property was owned by Thomas and Catherine Wilson, both of whom were master criminals and were both sent to Sing Sing Prison. Typical of the residents here was Bully Morrison, who beat up a person almost every day of his life, and John Mooney, who beat his wife a night and a day until she died and he went to prison; within two years, 287 criminal indictments were filed against inhabitants of Hell's Kitchen; Location: New York, New York, 1881 Keywords: criminals, dens of crime, felons, high crime areas Orientation: Panorama Dimensions: 2250 x 1029 (2.32 MPixels) (2.19) Print Size: 19.0 x 8.7 cm; 7.5 x 3.4 inches File Size: 6.63 MB (6,954,208 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000095859 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection |
