{"id":803993,"date":"2026-05-18T01:02:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T01:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/803993\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T01:02:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T01:02:16","slug":"hells-kitchen-hits-the-street-for-a-sun-soaked-ninth-avenue-food-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/803993\/","title":{"rendered":"Hell\u2019s Kitchen Hits the Street for a Sun-Soaked Ninth Avenue Food Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-grad-6-gradient-background has-background\">On a blazing hot weekend, 9th Avenue stopped being a traffic corridor and became Hell\u2019s Kitchen\u2019s front porch \u2014 W42ST photographers David Gray and Steve Hill turned out to capture the crowds and characters.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"1250\" height=\"869\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/28-DSC01322.jpg\" alt=\"Ninth Avenue Food Festival\" class=\"wp-image-143638\"\/>Crowds packed 9th Avenue on Sunday as the 51st Ninth Avenue Food Festival brought Hell\u2019s Kitchen out for its unofficial start to summer. Photo: David Gray<\/p>\n<p>The 51st Ninth Avenue Food Festival filled the avenue from W42nd to W57th Streets on Saturday and Sunday, as crowds poured into the neighborhood for grilled corn, smoky skewers, cold drinks, street games, selfies, dogs, dancing, people-watching \u2014 and the annual ritual of running into half the people you know. With sunshine all weekend, temperatures climbed into the high 70s on Saturday before Sunday pushed into the high 80s, giving the whole event the feeling of summer arriving slightly ahead of schedule.<\/p>\n<p>Success! Your account was created and you\u2019re signed in.<br \/>Please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/w42st.com\/my-account\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">My Account<\/a> to verify and manage your account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On a blazing hot weekend, 9th Avenue stopped being a traffic corridor and became Hell\u2019s Kitchen\u2019s front porch&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":803994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,405,403,5226,5225,327270,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-803993","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-newyork","12":"tag-newyorkcity","13":"tag-ninthavenuefoodfestival","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116592886413116133","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/803994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}