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Was there a Hell's Kitchen in Brooklyn, NY during the 19th century?
An episode of the 1960s TV show Wagon Train showed flashback scenes set in Hell's Kitchen in Brooklyn, NY. I know that Hell's Kitchen is in Manhattan's West Side. Did the show made a mistake, or was there another Hell's Kitchen in Brooklyn in the 1800s when it was its own city and not yet part of NYC?
2 Answers
- DWLv 62 years ago
I'm not finding one, looks like the show isn't depicting an actual place.
From which you could say: the Wagon Train universe has a neighborhood that didn't exist in real life (though I can't see any reason they'd bother to do that for a place so far from the show's setting), the writers made a mistake, the writers mislocated the neighborhood on purpose, the show was realistically depicting one of its characters making a mistake
- Rona LachatLv 72 years ago
Was there a Hell's Kitchen in Brooklyn, NY during the 19th century? NO
A FICTION story has no requirement to be 100% accurate on every detail of their story.
For the purpose of a Wagon train flash back some New York place name recognizable by viewers was all that was required. 100% historical accuracy is not.
Suggest you stop using works of FICTION for checking out historical records.
You make Brooklyn seem like it is thousands of miles away for the purpose intended for the flashback scene
So what they labelled the scene with a place on the other side of the river a few miles away?
