The Big Apple Team Handball Tournament will be played in Hell's Kitchen neighborhood which lies west of Midtown between 30th and 59th street has been home to a variety of residents. In response to Hell's Kitchen's turbulent history community groups in the 1960s tried changing the neighborhood's name to Clinton. The aim was to create a fresh new image and there were already a high school and park named after De Witt Clinton-ten term New York City Mayor, New York State Governor, U.S. Senator and "father of the Erie Canal. Although the area has moved on from its checkered past, the name hasn't stuck. Nowadays Hells' Kitchen's diverse immigrant heritage has led to some great ethnic cuisine and the hardships of the past have created a strong neighborhood community. Hell's Kitchen is home to Restaurant Row 8th Avenue has earned this name for the scores of international food outlets that line both sides of the street.

Restaurant Row is frequented by theatre goers and locals alike but beyond 8th Avenue, Hell's Kitchen is often over looked. Having played a strong part in the cultural development of New York each building in the neighborhood has its own personal story to tell. The Windermere, built two years before the Gramercy is one of the oldest apartment buildings in New York City. The Windermere lies on 9th Avenue but like many buildings of this age has its main entrance on the side because of the IRT Ninth Avenue Line elevated railway-New York's first-which dominated ninth avenue until the 1940s. Plans are underway to convert another no longer used elevated rail line-the High Line-into an urban park. The High Line connects Hell's Kitchen with Chelsea and the Meatpacking District.