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It's a new day in Hell's Kitchen, as we can see in Daredevil: Born Again. And even though the new Disney+ series wants to provide a gentle bridge between season 3 of the Netflix Daredevil series with the Man Without Fear's future within the MCU, the world is in a different place than it was when the final season of the original show was released in 2018. And that includes New York City in the MCU. 

Hell's Kitchen has been Daredevil's stomping grounds for decades now, but speaking for myself as a born and raised New Yorker, the Kitchen hasn't had the reputation as a working class, crime riddled neighborhood for quite some time now. Like, for nearly my entire lifetime (I am older than James Cameron's Titanic film). Today, if you walk around Hell's Kitchen, perhaps on your way to New York Comic Con at the Javits Center, you'll find young professionals and families bustling around, and likely one luxury vehicle double parked on a one-way street (to everyone's chagrin). 

Daredevil: Born Again is quick to establish that Hell's Kitchen has changed: in the first episode, multiple characters remark on how the beloved neighborhood institution, Becky's Diner, has closed. Matt Murdock himself breaks the terrible news that the spot is set to become a SoulCycle. Talk about soul sucking. I think the only redeeming thing that could come out of this diner's replacement by a SoulCycle would be if that specific SoulCycle location provided the grounds for Big Wheel, one of Marvel Comics' silliest villains, to begin his origin story. Your move, Marvel Studios. 

Fear not, we have the essentials when it comes to Marvel's Daredevil - especially with Marvel Studios' Daredevil: Born Again. Check out:

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• How Frank Miller accidentally killed a Daredevil cartoon (and Marvel killed a book to avoid pissing him off)
• That time we caught Daredevil actor Charlie Cox sneaking into New York Comic Con as Bluey