{"id":350786,"date":"2026-09-19T01:50:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T01:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/350786\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T01:50:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T01:50:33","slug":"hells-kitchens-other-september-11-the-forgotten-1905-el-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/350786\/","title":{"rendered":"Hell\u2019s Kitchen\u2019s Other September 11 \u2014 The Forgotten 1905 El Disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-grad-6-gradient-background has-background wp-block-paragraph\">September 11 is a date forever associated with the attacks of 2001. But 96 years earlier, Hell\u2019s Kitchen experienced another deadly September 11 \u2014 when an elevated train derailed above W53rd Street, killing 13 people and seriously injuring dozens more. With the 25th anniversary commemorations of 9\/11 now behind us, Tom Hester looks back at a tragedy that has largely disappeared from neighborhood memory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the morning rush hour on September 11, 1905, part of a southbound five-car train on the long-gone Ninth Avenue Elevated derailed above W53rd Street and plunged to the street, killing 13 people and seriously injuring 48.<\/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 manage your account.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/w42st.com\/post\/author\/tom-hester\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img alt=\"Avatar photo\" src=\"https:\/\/w42st.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/cropped-Tom-Hester_1815-120x120.jpeg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-120 photo\" height=\"120\" width=\"120\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tom is a retired 42-year New Jersey daily newspaper journalist. He was part of the Newark Star-Ledger staff that earned a Pulitzer Prize in 2005. Tom has a family connection to Hell&#8217;s Kitchen and longtime interest in its history.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/w42st.com\/post\/author\/tom-hester\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tMore by Tom Hester\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"September 11 is a date forever associated with the attacks of 2001. But 96 years earlier, Hell\u2019s Kitchen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,5406,63],"class_list":["post-350786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nostalgia","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}