WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Daredevil #29 by Chip Zdarsky, Marco Checchetto, Marcio Menyz and VC's Clayton Cowles, on sale now.
No matter how much Marvel tries to save Hell's Kitchen, Daredevil's corner of New York seems like a lost cause. Politicians like the corrupt Wilson Fisk keep exploiting it, and the likes of would-be tycoons like Izzy Libris will always rise up to be the new Kingpin. Coupled with a propensity for street-level crime and a lack of government resources, it's hard to see Matt Murdock or even his current stand-in Elektra saving the Marvel Universe version of the locale.
However, Daredevil #29 may have just have found the key in Elektra's apprentice, Alice.
In recent years, the concept of Daredevil has become warped, with even Matt Murdock retiring every now and again as he realizes he's part of the problem. He tries to fight above the law but also enforces a brand of justice that keeps making monsters. Elektra is already realizing this in her tenure as Daredevil while Matt's in prison for manslaughter. However, she slowly starts to change things by saving people who are paying taxes to gangs like Izzy's,= and instead makes them pay her a tax.
This may be her turf now, but she's never grown up on these streets. Sure, she lost her parents violently, but the globe-trotting Elektra isn't part of the city's lifeblood. Young Alice is, however, and like Matt, she lost her only parent on these streets. Her mother died in King in Black as the symbiotes attacked, and Elektra has been trying to harness her rage to make her strong since then. Basically, she's being what Stick was to her and Matt, but she knows all the strengths and flaws of herself and Matt.
Accordingly, Elektra can cultivate someone ideal to take the Daredevil mantle up by teaching her understanding of humanity's darkness with Matt's thirst for justice. She can teach Alice how to be the aggressive, but not deadly, hero that Hell's Kitchen needs to accept as their own, something they're still reluctant to do with Matt.
Alice does have more warmth, empathy and compassion than Elektra, so should she become this beacon of light, helping protect the city, even as a teen. Elektra can sense the potential as she lets Alice observe her in the field, and it's not hard to imagine her serving as a de facto junior Daredevil under the tutelage of Elektra and Matt.
While the Marvel Universe has plenty of young heroes like Miles Morales and Kamala Khan, Alice could become a young hero with the kind of harder edge that hasn't been seen since X-23, and she could be exactly the kind of her Hell's Kitchen needs.