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Event being held to save Hells Kitchen café, favorite of many Broadway casts and crew WABC HELLS KITCHEN, Manhattan (WABC) -- A remarkable event is being organized to save a café in Hells Kitchen that has long been a favorite of Broadway cast and crew. The West Bank Café opened 42 years ago on West 42nd Street and was hit hard by the pandemic. Mike Marza reports on workers holding a rally at a historic NYC restaurant. When Broadway producer Tom DAngora learned the café where hed hel...

Angus Mordant/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Angus Mordant/Bloomberg via Getty Images A pedestrian walks past a sign reading "Take Out And Delivery Only" on the door of a restaurant in the Hells Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan on Thursday. Angus Mordant/Bloomberg via Getty Images An emerging coronavirus relief package may not do enough to help restaurants hobbled by the pandemic, many of which have struggled to make ends meet all...

HELLS KITCHEN, Manhattan (WABC) -- A grocery store employee died inside the supermarket after an elevator incident on Tuesday evening. Police responded to the Food Emporium at 452 West 43rd Street around 4:30 p.m. over reports of a fatal elevator device incident. Department of Building officials say an investigation found that a supermarket employee was loading a small freight elevator at the cellar level, when the device moved upwards towards the first floor and caused head trauma to the worke...

Kitchen, a gritty, working-class neighborhood on the far west side of manhattan. john found himself longing to be accepted by his new street-wise peers. >> the police have known of the westies since immigrant days. >> irish-american gangsters known as the westies controlled hells kitchen for decades. and were used as enforcers bied gambino crime family. >> >> the accused westies acted as contract killers. they dismebd the bodies of the people they killed. >> theyve been known to take the head of...

Done drugs. >> with time, by your own reckoning, youve moved away from that. why? >> i mean, i got sober. i got sober in a 12-step meeting. i did some work on myself. looking at fears, looking at resentments, looking at my ego -- like, whats that about? >> its the question ive had on my mind. how does the young boy in these idyllic childhood images grow up to become a killer? the one person not shown in any of these photos is john lennons father, a man he never met. what were you told about your...

And they all respected him or feared him. i heard respect. i didnt hear them talking about my father, who had just blown his head off. he was irrelevant. >> respect was a currency as important as money in hells kitchen. >> the code of the street is you never tell on your friends, you never -- youd never hurt your friends. respect -- respect was a big one, a very big one. >> kenny gonzales became one of john lennons friends. >> we were selling drugs on the corner. we were robbing. we were doing b...

Finally our tribute to danny aiello. he starred in "do the right thing" and had so many memorable roles. heres harry smith >> reporter: danny aiello was a god, a new york guy. how he talk and handled himself, his performances stuck to the screen. >> will you marry me >> reporter: brilliant as chers fiancee in moon struck and god father 2 he was up schooled he learned his craft from his life experiences growing up in hells kitchen his role in spike lees do the right thing won him an oscar nominat...

A treaty you want to be a member of the club you apply the rules you cant violate the rules nor can you ignore the rules or you end up in hells kitchen thats the message to young garion prime minister viktor orban the conservative with the nickname dictator he got into serious trouble with brussels for cracking down on the independent media n.g.o.s and the justice system physically its not easy well following this recipe at least is take 150 millimeters of lukewarm water and at 225 grams of crac...

Doesnt end one a happy meal. this 10-year-old stole her moms suv because she wanted breakfast. on the way she crashed her moms car. thankfully, everybody, including her, are okay. jillian: wow. finally the ugly, a man gets just 60 days in prison for poisoning his wifes coffee with allergy medication. a michigan woman catching her husband in the act after setting up a hidden camera. he can serve all his jail time on weekends. what? todd: he got off easy. jillian: ice cream sandwich day. here to c...

The mississippi river, which comes right there into new orleans is at 17 feet right now, which is above flood stage, well above flood stage. normally its at 6 feet. so this is of concern for many people while we continue to watch the situation there in new york, morgan. >> and, kendis, we also have breaking news. we just heard from a con ed spokesperson. they said that two west side networks are back in power. thats on hudson and columbus. we also know that there are four more networks to go. th...