<Li> George Maharis, actor, lived on West 49th </Li> <Li> Mary "Typhoid Mary" Mallon shared an apartment in Hell's Kitchen with her boyfriend between jobs as a cook during the 1900s </Li> <Li> Eddie McGrath, mobster </Li> <Li> Frank Miller (born 1957), writer and comic book artist </Li>

Why is the area in new york called hell's kitchen