Hell's Kitchen has been through more reinventions than most New York neighborhoods care to count — from working-class Irish enclave to midcentury rough edge to the polished, restaurant-dense corridor it largely presents today. Through most of those transitions, the bars changed with the block. So

Hell's Kitchen has been through more reinventions than most New York neighborhoods care to count — from working-class Irish enclave to midcentury rough edge to the polished, restaurant-dense corridor it largely presents today. Through most of those transitions, the bars changed with the block. So

Hell's Kitchen has been through more reinventions than most New York neighborhoods care to count — from working-class Irish enclave to midcentury rough edge to the polished, restaurant-dense corridor it largely presents today. Through most of those transitions, the bars changed with the block. So