A text-only page of the tour that can be printed and taken along if you're doing a real-life tour after this virtual one.
Carcaterra, Lorenzo. A Safe Place: The Story of a Father, a Son, a Murder. Ballantine, 1994.
Carcaterra, Lorenzo. Sleepers. Ballantine, 1995.
English, T.J. The Westies: Inside the Hell's Kitchen Irish Mob. St. Martin's, 1993.
Warren, Ann; and Joan Lilly. The Cupcake Cafe Cookbook. Doubleday, 1998.
Adcock, Thomas. Sea of Green. Mysterious Press, 1989.
Adcock, Thomas. Dark Maze. Pocket Books, 1991.
Block, Lawrence. Ticket to the Boneyard. Avon, 1996.
Block, Lawrence. Devil Knows You're Dead. Avon 1996.
Connelly, Joe. Bringing Out the Dead. Knopf, 1998.
Gabriel, Eric. Waterboys. Mercury, 1989.
Kelly, Thomas. Payback. Knopf, 1997.
Puzo, Mario. The Fortunate Pilgrim. Random House, 1997.
Cohen, Paul E. and Robert T. Augustyn. Manhattan in Maps: 1527-1995. Rizzoli, 1997.
Jackson, Kenneth T. (Editor). The Encyclopedia of New York City. New York Historical Society, 1995.
Riordon, William L. Plunkitt of Tammany Hall. Bedford Books, 1993.
Willensky, Elliot. AIA Guide to New York City. Harcourt Brace, 1988.
Family Business. Feature Film, 1984. Sean Connery, Dustin Hoffman. (Some scenes filmed on Ninth Avenue.)
The Fortunate Pilgrim. Television Movie, 1988. Sophia Loren, Edward James Olmos. (Mario Puzo's autobiographical second novel, first published in 1964, is set on Tenth Avenue, but was filmed in Yugoslavia.)
State of Grace. Feature Film, 1990. Sean Penn, Ed Harris. (Some scenes filmed on Tenth Avenue.)
Sleepers. Feature Film, 1996. Brad Pitt. (Lorenzo Carcaterra's book is set in Hell's Kitchen, but locations filmed mostly in Brooklyn.)
Hell's Kitchen Online http://hellskitchen.net
Clinton Community Garden http://www.clintoncommunitygarden.org/
Oasis 11 Community Garden http://members.aol.com/Meerkat000/garden.html
Ninth Avenue Festival http://www.midtownmedia.com/9thave/
Columbus Branch Library http://www.nypl.org/branch/man/cs.html
New York Public Library http://www.nypl.org
Text material about Hell's Kitchen, including some hard-to-find, out-of-print books on the area, is available at the Columbus Branch Library, 742 Tenth Avenue, 212 586-5098, and at the Local History Collection, General Research Library, 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue, 212-930-0828. The Local History Collection also has street-by-street, building-by-building photographs of Hell's Kitchen from the late 1880s to the present. (Not every building is included.)
In addition, maps of the Hell's Kitchen district, from the 1660s to the present, can be viewed and studied in the Map Division, General Research Library, 212 930-0587.
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