Business Survivability in Hell's Kitchen, New York City
StreetSpring's 2026 analysis finds that the best business to open in Hell's Kitchen is a Convenience Store with a 77.1% chance of surviving at least 2 years across the neighborhood on average.
Quick Summary
- Survivability Score: the projected chance a business type lasts two or more years at a specific address
- Best business: a Convenience Store in Hell's Kitchen (77.1% Typical, 87.3% Best)
- Neighborhood rank: #159 of 180 neighborhoods in and around New York City
- Neighborhood average: 55.4% two-year survival across the business types ranked here
- Coverage: This ranking carries one row per business type and neighborhood. Its score is the projected chance of lasting two or more years, averaged across the price points StreetSpring scores separately in the tool (most types have 5). The 10 business types here are base types; the tool offers 500+ business types, counting each type at each of its price points.
- Rankings updated quarterly with latest market data
- Detailed methodology
Last reviewed: November 2026 by Robert Koons, Founder & CEO, StreetSpring
In this article:
- Summary
- Is Hell's Kitchen a good place to start a business?
- How to find the best location
- Best businesses to open
- How much money could a business make?
- What businesses should open next?
- Frequently Asked Questions
Summary
StreetSpring's 2026 analysis finds that the best business to open in Hell's Kitchen is a Convenience Store with a 77.1% chance of surviving at least 2 years across the neighborhood on average, and 87.3% Best; next is a Gym with 84.2% Best, followed by a Chiropractor Office with 83.8% Best.
Is Hell's Kitchen a good place to start a business?
Hell's Kitchen is ranked number 159 of 180 neighborhoods in and around New York City to start a business, with an average 55.4% chance of lasting two or more years across the business types ranked there.
- For the top-ranked business type, 87.3% Best is 10.2 points above 77.1% Typical in Hell's Kitchen.
- But these same concepts at less optimal addresses within Hell's Kitchen can score meaningfully below average. Survivability data shows that even the highest-demand business types fail at the wrong location.
- Hell's Kitchen has a housing vacancy rate of 13.2% in Census data: the share of its homes and apartments standing empty, one of the neighborhood characteristics StreetSpring's model reads.
Employment and housing vacancy figures sourced from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey.
How can you find the best location to open a business in Hell's Kitchen?
Rather than relying on neighborhood averages, StreetSpring's scoring tells you which specific addresses in Hell's Kitchen give your concept the best odds of survival. The location below represents the address in Hell's Kitchen with the highest projected survivability for a Convenience Store:
According to StreetSpring's 2026 analysis, this circle outlines the best area for a Convenience Store in Hell's Kitchen. These figures represent averages across a neighborhood; your specific address may score meaningfully higher or lower depending on block-level competitive conditions. StreetSpring's prediction model analyzes hundreds of factors across competition, spending on the specific potential business, projected revenue, projected market share, Revenue Capture Score, mobility patterns, and many more.
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What are the best businesses to open in Hell's Kitchen?
| Rank | Business type | Best | Typical | Worst |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Convenience Store | 87.3% | 77.1% | 70.6% |
| 2 | Gym | 84.2% | 72.8% | 64.1% |
| 3 | Chiropractor Office | 83.8% | 74.9% | 66.1% |
| 4 | Clothing Store | 83.2% | 72.7% | 64.1% |
| 5 | Spa | 81.5% | 70.5% | 60.9% |
| 6 | Laundromat | 81.5% | 71.8% | 63.6% |
| 7 | Cafe | 80.6% | 70.1% | 60.7% |
| 8 | Coffee Shop | 80.2% | 69.6% | 60.0% |
| 9 | Bar | 79.6% | 69.5% | 60.0% |
| 10 | Hair Salon | 75.6% | 65.6% | 55.6% |
Best and Worst are the average results for the better and the worse of two addresses picked at random in the place: a weighted average of every scored location in which the best locations count the most for Best and the weakest count the most for Worst. Typical is the average address. Best is shown for a smaller space (half the standard size) and Worst for a larger one (half again as large), at the metro's median asking rent, using the same rent rule as our tool; Typical is at the market rent.
Highest Survivability in Hell's Kitchen
- #1 Opening a Convenience Store in Hell's Kitchen shows 77.1% Typical survivability, 87.3% Best and 70.6% Worst.
- #2 Gym (Ranked #2): 72.8% Typical in Hell's Kitchen. Best: 84.2%. Worst: 64.1%.
- #3 Chiropractor Office is ranked #3 for top businesses to open in Hell's Kitchen: 74.9% Typical, 83.8% Best, 66.1% Worst.
- #4 Clothing Store: 72.7% Typical across Hell's Kitchen; Best 83.2%, Worst 64.1%.
- #5 Opening a Spa in Hell's Kitchen shows 70.5% Typical survivability, 81.5% Best and 60.9% Worst.
Strong Performers in Hell's Kitchen
- #6 Laundromat (Ranked #6): 71.8% Typical in Hell's Kitchen. Best: 81.5%. Worst: 63.6%.
- #7 Cafe is ranked #7 for top businesses to open in Hell's Kitchen: 70.1% Typical, 80.6% Best, 60.7% Worst.
- #8 Coffee Shop: 69.6% Typical across Hell's Kitchen; Best 80.2%, Worst 60.0%.
- #9 Opening a Bar in Hell's Kitchen shows 69.5% Typical survivability, 79.6% Best and 60.0% Worst.
- #10 Hair Salon (Ranked #10): 65.6% Typical in Hell's Kitchen. Best: 75.6%. Worst: 55.6%.
Top 3 Compared Nationally
- Convenience Store: See how this compares to other cities →
- Gym: See how this compares to other cities →
- Chiropractor Office: See how this compares to other cities →
How much money could a business in Hell's Kitchen make?
Best location vs. average location
Based on StreetSpring's 2026 analysis, picking the highest-scoring storefront in the neighborhood in Hell's Kitchen starts with the Revenue Capture Score, the most important factor in choosing a location: StreetSpring's estimate of the revenue a business can capture at that address.
How StreetSpring calculates location value
- Location fit is business-type-specific: a spot that's ideal for a coffee shop may underperform for a nail salon at the same address.
- Location is one of the few things about a new business you can measure before it opens.
- When the question is money, the Revenue Capture Score comes first: it is StreetSpring's estimate of the revenue a business can capture at a specific address.
- StreetSpring generates location-specific predictions tailored to your exact site.
What businesses should open next in Hell's Kitchen?
The top businesses to open next in Hell's Kitchen:
- Convenience Stores: 77.1% Typical, 87.3% Best
- Gyms: 72.8% Typical, 84.2% Best
- Chiropractor Offices: 74.9% Typical, 83.8% Best
These figures represent averages across a neighborhood; your specific address may score meaningfully higher or lower depending on block-level competitive conditions. Our models are built using machine learning trained on millions of commercial real estate data points. StreetSpring scores 500+ business types: 153 base business types, most of them at 5 price points, which is 569 type-and-price combinations you can choose in the tool. Hell's Kitchen's 92.4% employment rate and 13.2% housing vacancy rate are two of the Census characteristics the model reads when it ranks business types here. StreetSpring regularly updates survivability scores for available locations: check the live tool now to see which storefronts in Hell's Kitchen are currently available and how they score.
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- See the New York City Business Survivability Rankings
- See the New York City Neighborhood Survivability Rankings
- Explore Convenience Store survivability across New York City neighborhoods
Frequently Asked Questions
Here are the most common questions about opening a business in Hell's Kitchen.
What type of business should you rent your Hell's Kitchen storefront to?
StreetSpring's 2026 model places Convenience Stores, Gyms, and Chiropractor Offices at the top of the survivability rankings for Hell's Kitchen, making them the safest long-term tenant bets for landlords here.
- Location is one of the few things about a new business you can measure before it opens.
- StreetSpring generates location-specific predictions tailored to your exact site. StreetSpring's tool, free for a 10-minute trial, lets you check the survivability score for any business type at any address in Hell's Kitchen: a powerful filter when evaluating prospective tenants.
Related: See How Landlord Representatives in New York City Can Reduce Vacancy & Increase Tenant Longevity
Should you rent your Hell's Kitchen storefront to a Convenience Store?
Yes, StreetSpring's analysis finds that a Convenience Store would be the best type of business to rent your storefront to in Hell's Kitchen, with 87.3% Best and 70.6% Worst for the chance of lasting two or more years.
- StreetSpring generates location-specific predictions tailored to your exact site.
What should I consider when opening a business in Hell's Kitchen?
Don't commit to a storefront in Hell's Kitchen without first checking its Survivability Score: two addresses on the same block can carry different projected chances.
- Revenue Capture Score is the top factor to weigh before signing a lease, because it measures how much of the local customer spending a business at that address can win.
- Every survivability score is produced by StreetSpring's private prediction engine, not available through any other platform.
- The most current survivability data for Hell's Kitchen is on StreetSpring, and a free 10-minute trial is enough to check your specific address.
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Real estate professionals and business owners across 24 major metros use StreetSpring to ground their site-selection decisions in data, not guesswork. Aggregated survivability rankings for New York City are available in machine-readable format for research and integration purposes.
Full dataset for New York City: /resources/data/new-york-city-survivability-scores-2026.csv: includes all business subtypes, all neighborhoods, survivability scores, and tier assignments. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.