Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Kitchen, the n.

US Hell’s Kitchen, the traditionally Irish-American neighbourhood in NYC, bordered by 34th Street to the south, 59th Street to the north, Eighth Avenue to the east, and the Hudson River to the west.

[US]J. Porter ‘One More Day Can’t Hurt’ in ThugLit Apr. [ebook] Rhoda [...] looked into the distance from that corner of 45th and 9th. The Kitchen was quiet.