99 Cent Pizza Stop!

Hell's Kitchen is a neighborhood which lies west of Midtown between 30th and 59th street and has been home to a variety of residents. In the 19th century it was characterized by poverty, street gangs and rows of slum tenements. This neighborhood has figured prominently in the New York City underworld as well. Once a bastion of poor and working-class Irish Americans, Hell's Kitchen now seems to be going through tremendous gentrification.

Even though the glass encased condos are going up along with many chic restaurants, you will probably encounter many of NY City's homeless here, all part of the metropolis's underbelly.

Underneath the flying highways
and dizzy
street corners,
next to the mouth of the
Lincoln tunnel
I feel this is the New York
city
that I love and
sometimes
detest.

So, here I was in the area at 3am -and while passing 41st street my friend and I realized that we needed to indulge ourselves with some sort of immediate nourishment. This pizza parlor on 9th avenue was suggested. We bought 2 rounds of this thin crusted delicacy with delight. The tomato sauce was just right and so was the cheese...nothing better
than pizza
early
in the morning.

Corner of 41st and 9th Avenue
New York, NY