Alphabet City

Alphabet City is a neighborhood located within the East Village in the borough) New Yorker from Manhattan (United States). Its name comes from avenues A, B, C and D, the only avenues in Manhattan named with a single letter. It is bordered by Houston Street to the south and 14th Street to the north where it borders Stuyvesant Town. Some of its main points of interest include Tompkins Square Park and the Nuyorican Poets Café.

The neighborhood has a long history, being a cultural center and ethnic enclave for Manhattan's German, Polish, Hispanic and Jewish populations. However, much dispute exists over the exact boundaries of Alphabet City, the East Village, and the Lower East Side. Historically the northern limit of Lower Manhattan is 14th Street, the East River to the east, and First Avenue to the west. The German presence in the early 20th century virtually ended after the General Slocum disaster in 1904.

Alphabet City is part of Community District 3 and its main ZIP code is 10009. It is patrolled by the 9th Precinct of the New York Police Department.

Etymology

Map Alphabet City inside Lower Manhattan

Manhattan's original street layout specified by the 1811 Commissioners' Plan established 16 north-south-oriented thoroughfares that would have a width of 100 feet. These included 12 numbered and four lettered avenues lying east of First Avenue called Avenue A, B, etc. In Midtown and further north, Avenue A is eventually renamed Beekman Place, Sutton Place, York Avenue and Pleasant Avenue; Avenue B was renamed Avenue East End although Paladino Avenue in East Harlem is sometimes called Avenue B. (There were no avenues further east in this part of the city). Further south, the avenues keep their lettered names.

The name "Alphabet City" is thought to be relatively new while the East Village and Alphabet City were considered simply part of the Lower East Side for much of its history. Urban historian Peter G. Rowe notes that the name came into use in the 1980s, as gentrification began to spread east from Greenwich Village. The term's first appearance in The New York Times is in a 1984 editorial signed by then-mayor Ed Koch, calling on the United States federal government to help fight crime on the dangerous streets of that neighborhood:

The neighborhood known as Alphabet City due to its avenues named with letters that run east of First Avenue to the river, it has been for years occupied a persistent plague of street drug sellers whose scourge in traffic has destroyed the life of the community in the neighborhood.

A subsequent article in that same year of 1984 in the Times described the neighborhood using a number of names: «Young artists... They are moving to an area referred to a varied way as Alphabetland , Alphabetville , or Alphabet City (Avenues A, B, C and following in the Lower East Side of Manhattan) ».

Several sets of nicknames have been associated with the ABCD denomination including adventurer, Brave (Valente), crazy (crazy) and dead (dead) and, more recently according to the writer George Pendle, « affluent i> dated (decent) ».

HISTORY

Early Development

The area that today forms Alphabet City was originally occupied by the Lenape tribe. The Lenape moved according to the stations. They approached the coast to fish during the summers and withdrew inside the island to hunt and grow during winter and autumn. Manhattan was acquired in 1626 by Peter Minuit of the Dutch company of the Western Indies that held the position as director-general of the new countries. The population of the Dutch neighborhood of Nueva Amsterdam was mainly on what is currently Fulton Street, while a number of small plantations and large farms and large farms were extended to the north of that limit which were called Bouwerij (then it was anglified to " boweries " modern Dutch: Boerderij ). Around these farms there were a number of free or "moderately free" enclaves, which served as a damping space between the Dutch and the Native Americans. There were several "bowleries" in the area of what is today Alphabet City . The greatest was Bowery No. 2, which belonged to various people before the eastern half of the land was divided and given Harmen Smeeman in 1647.

Many of these farms became rich properties in the middle of the century XVIII . The Stuyvesant families, Delancey, and Rutgers would become owners of almost all lands in the Lower East Side , including the portions that would later become Alphabet City for End of the century xviii </s City through a hypodamic plan. Because each owner made their own measurement, there were many grids of streets that did not align with each other. Several state laws, approved in the 1790s, gave New York City the ability to plan, open and close streets. The final plan, published in 1811, resulted in the current grid of streets north of Houston Street The avenues that travel from north to south in the Lower East Side were finished in the 1810s, and those that go from this to west in 1820s.

nineteenth century

Former Headquarters German-American Shooting Society in number 12 of St. Mark's Place (1885), part of Little Germany

The commissioners' plan and resulting street grid were the catalyst for the expansion of the city to the north, and for a short period, the portion of the Lower East Side that is today Alphabet Citywas one of the wealthiest residential neighborhoods in the city. After the opening of the railways, townhouse construction reached the East Side and Noho by the early 1830s.. In 1833, Thomas E. Davis and Arthur Bronson purchased the entire block of 10th Street from Avenue A to Avenue B. The block was adjacent to Tompkins Square Park, located between 7th and 10th streets from Avenues A to B, opened that same year. Although the park was not in the original 1811 plan, part of the land between 7th and 10th streets east of First Avenue was set aside for a market that was never built. two-and-a-half to three-story townhomes on both sides of the streets by developers Elisha Peck and Anson Green Phelps; Ephraim H. Wentworth; and Christopher S. Hubbard and Henry H. Casey. Following the rapid growth of the neighborhood, Manhattan's 17th Ward was divided from 11th Ward in 1837. The old area stretched from Avenue B to the Bowery while the newly created spanned from Avenue B to the East River.

By the middle of the 19th century, many of the wealthiest residents continued to move north to the Upper West Side and the Upper East Side. Some wealthy families stayed, and one observer noted in the 1880s that these families "looked down on the upstarts of Fifth Avenue." Overall, however, the neighborhood's wealthier population began to decline as many moved north. Meanwhile, immigrants from Ireland, Germany and Austria moved into the townhouses and mansions.

The population of Manhattan's 17th Ward, which included the western part of present-day Alphabet City, increased from 18,000 people in 1840 to more than 43,000 in 1850, nearly doubling again to 73,000 people in 1860, making it the most populous ward in the city at the time. As a result of the Panic of 1837, the city experienced less construction than in previous years and thus there was a shortage of housing units available to immigrants, causing slums of many houses in Lower Manhattan. Another solution was the innovative "tenant houses" (tenant houses), or conventillo, within the East Side. Several of those buildings were built by the Astor family and Stephen Whitney. The builders were rarely involved in the day-to-day operation of the tenements and usually subcontracted landlords (many of them immigrants or children of immigrants) to manage each building. Many tenements were erected with rooms measuring 25 feet by 25 feet, before relevant legislation was passed in the 1860s. To address concerns about insecurity and unsanitary conditions, a second set of laws was passed in 1879, requiring every room to have windows, leading to the creation of ventilation shafts between each building. Tenements that were built to legal specifications were called Old Law Tenements. to alleviate the problems of the area through settlement houses, such as the Henry Street Settlement, and other welfare and service organizations.

Because many of the new immigrants were German-speaking, modern Alphabet City, the East Village, and the Lower East Side collectively began to become known as "Little Germany" (German: Kleindeutschland). The neighborhood had the third-largest urban population of Germans after from Vienna and Berlin. It was the first foreign language neighborhood in the United States; Hundreds of political, social, sports and recreational clubs were established in this period. Numerous churches were built in the neighborhood of which many still stand. In addition, Little Germany also had its own library in Second Avenue, today the Ottendorfer Office of the New York Public Library. However, the community began to decline after the sinking of the General Slocum on June 15, 1904, in which more than a hundred German-Americans died.

The Germans who moved out of the area were replaced by immigrants of many other nationalities. This included groups of Italians and Eastern European Jews as well as Greeks, Hungarians, Poles, Romanians, Russians, Slovaks, and Ukrainians. Each of these groups settled in relatively homogeneous enclaves. In "How the Other Half Lives", Riis notes that "a map of the city, colored according to nationality, could show more stripes than the skin of a zebra, and more colors." than any rainbow." One of the first groups to populate what was once Little Germany were Yiddish-speaking Ashkenazi Jews, who first settled south of Houston Street before moving north. Catholic Poles as well as Protestant Hungarians would also have a significant impact on the East Side, building houses of worship next to each other along 7th Street at the turn of the century XX. By the 1890s, the tenements were designed in the Queen Anne and Neo-Romanesque style. Tenements built in the later part of the decade were built in the Neo-Renaissance style. Tenements built in the later part of the decade were built in the Neo-Renaissance style. During this time, the area became increasingly identified as part of the Lower East Side.

20th century

San Nicolás Kirche was located on East 2nd Street, just west of A Avenue. The church and almost all buildings on that street were demolished in the 1960s and replaced by a parking lot for the Village View Houses building

The New York state rental law of 1901 drastically changed the regulations to which the rental buildings had to adapt. Simultaneously the yiddish theater district or "yiddish rialto" developed within the East Side . It was made up of several theaters and other forms of entertainment for the Jewish immigrants of the city. For World War I, the Theater District housed between 20 to 30 shows every night. After World War II, the Jewish Theater He became less popular, and by the mid -1950s, few theaters in the district were open.

The city built First Houses in the apple formed by street 3 east and 2 east streets and the First Avenues and A in 1935–1936, it was the first public housing project in the United States. The neighborhood originally ended in the East River, to the east where the D was located later. In the middle of the century xx , rubble from World War II embarked from London to gain ground to the river and extend the shore for the construction of the Franklin D. Roosevelt highway. The Polish enclave in the East Village also lasts. Several other immigrant groups have moved from the neighborhood and their former churches were sold and orthodox cathedrals became which would then be known as Loisaida.

The population of the east side of Manhattan began to decline at the beginning of the great depression in the 1930, which were considered ruinous and unnecessary, were destroyed in the middle of the century xx </s streets 2 east and 6, were inaugurated in 1964. partially at the site of Antigua San Nicolás Kirche.

Until the middle of the century XX , the area was simply the northern part of the Lower East Side , with a similar worker immigrant life culture. In the 1950s and 1960s, the migration of Beatniks to the neighborhood later attracted hippies, musicians, writers, and artists who had to leave Greenwich Village for the rapid gentrification that occurred there. Among the first displaced inhabitants of Greenwich Village were Writers Allen Ginsberg, W. H. Auden, and Norman Mailer, who moved to the area in 1951–1953. A group of cooperative art galleries on 10th Street (to which they would later collectively refer like the 10th Street Galleries ) They opened around the same time starting with the Tanger and Hansa, which opened in 1952. Greater changes came in 1955 when the elevated line of the third avenue that ran through the Bowery and the third avenue It was withdrawn. This made the neighborhood more attractive to potential residents and, by 1960, the New York Times gave " this area is gradually being recognized as an extension of Greenwich Village... extending, consequently, the New York bohemia from Rio to Río &#34 Punk rock and literary movement Nuyorican.

For the 1970s and 1980s, the city in general was in decline and close to bankruptcy, especially after the fiscal crisis of 1975. The residential buildings in Alphabet City and the East Village suffered large levels of deterioration as the owners did not perform the main maintenance of their buildings. The city bought many of those buildings but also did not have the ability to maintain them due to lack of funds. Despite the deterioration of the structures in the area, the musical and performing arts scenes flourished. For the years 1

Despite the deterioration of the structures in the east Village , their musical and artistic scenes were stern wind. For the 1970s, gay dances halls and Punk Clubs clubs began to open in the neighborhood. These included the pyramid club that opened in 1979 in 101 of Avenida A. received musical acts such as Nirvana and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, as well as Drag actors such as Rupaul and Ann Magnuson.

Gentrification

Alphabet City and beginnings of the XXI. Multiple factors resulted in low crime and high income throughout Manhattan and in Alphabet City in particular. Avenida A A D were much less bohemian in the <span style, the rentals were extremely low and the neighborhood was considering among the last places in Manhattan where many people would like to live. However, as soon as in 1983, the Times reported that due to the influence of artists, many establishments and immigrants were forced to leave the area due to rents. drugs openly in Tompkins Square Park.

tensions due to gentrification resulted in the revolt of Tompkinks Square Park, which took place after the population manifested against a proposal to restricted access to homeless people who frequented the park. After the revolt, the rhythm of the gentrification process was reduced while the prices of the real estate fell. However, by the end of the century > XX , prices recovered their initial climb. Almost half of the stores in the East Village Time left the neighborhood.

The Museum of Relaimed Urban Space opened on Avenue C in the building known as C-Squat in 2012. A vivid archive of urban activism, the museum explores the history of base movements in The East Village and offers guided tours in community orchards, occupations and social change sites.

Political representation

politically, Alphabet City and 74 of the State Assembly of New York, and districts 1 and 2 of the Municipal Council of New York.

ARCHITECTURE

HISTORICAL BUILDINGS

local community groups such as the GVSHP actively work to obtain a monumentality statement for the district of the East Village and preserve and protect the architectural and cultural identity of the neighborhood. At the beginning of 2011, the 2011 Commission for the Preservation of Historic Monuments of New York (LPC) proposed the creation of a small district along the block of 10th street located north of Tompkins Square Park. In January 2012, the Historical District of 10th Street was established.

Several notable buildings have been declared as monuments individually, some thanks to the efforts of the GVSHP. These include:

• The First Houses on 3 East Street and A Avenue, the first public housing project in the country built in 1935 and declared a monument in 1974
• The Christodora House, built in 1928 and registered in the National Register of Historic Places in 1986
• La Tompkins Square Lodging House for Boys and Industrial School of the Children's Aid Society located in the number 296 of 8 East Street, built in 1886 and declared as a monument in 2000
• La Elizabeth Home for Girls of the Children's Aid Society located on 308 East 12th Street, built in 1891–1892 and declared a monument in 2008
• The Wheatsworth Bakery Buildingbuilt in 1927–1928 and declared a monument in 2008
• The Church of St. Nicholas of Mira in number 288 of 10 East Street, declared as a monument in 2008
• The First German Baptist Church (Sinagogue Town " Village) on 334 East 14th Street, declared as a monument in 2014

Other structures

Other notable buildings include the « political row », a block of imposing attached houses on 7th Street this between C and D avenues where they lived, during the century XIX , political leaders of all kinds. The monumnetal building Wheatsworth Bakery on 10 i> that once occupied the shore of the East River with industrial activities.

alphabet City Maritime of the neighborhood and that were also the first houses to be built when that area was a land of Clivo. Despite the efforts of the GVSHP to preserve those houses, the LPC does not yet protect them. A 1835 attached house located in 316 of Calle 3 This was demolished in 2012 for the construction of a 33 -income building of 33 departments called «The Robyn ». In 2010, the GVSHP and the community coalition of the East Village asked the LPC 326 and 328 on 4th Street, two neogriego -style attached houses dating from 1837 to 1841 that housed houses of merchants affiliated with the shipyards, a synagogue and, more recently, a sample of art called Uranian Phalanstery . However, the LPC did not grant the status of monumentality. The LPC also denied adding 264 of 7th Street (the old house of the illustrator Felicia Bond) and four houses attached to the historical district East Village/Lower East Side.

In 2008, almost all Alphabet City I> Alphabet City , rezonification requires that every new construction occurs in harmony with the residential nature of the area.

loisaida

A homeless man passes by a terrace of a fashion bar on Avenida C.

Loisaida /ˌloʊ.iːˈsaɪdə/ is a term derived from the Spanish (and mainly Nuyorican) pronunciation of «Lower East Side». Originally coined by poet and activist Bittman "Bimbo" Rivas in his 1974 poem "Loisaida," it references Avenue C in Alphabet City, whose population has been largely Latino (primarily Nuyorican) since the 1960s.

Since the 1940s, the demographics of the neighborhood have changed markedly several times: the creation of neighboring Stuyvesant Town to the north, which had a large union base, after World War II added a middle-class to middle-class population lower middle to the area, contributing to the eventual gentrification of the area in the 21st century. Construction of large government housing projects to the south and east and the growing Latino population transformed a large section of the neighborhood to Latino until the late 1990s when rising rents eliminated high crime rates and large numbers of artists and students moved to the area. The growth of Chinatown in Manhattan has spread to the southern parts of the Lower East Side but Latinos are still concentrated in Alphabet City. With low crime, the area around Alphabet City, the East Village and the Lower East Side is rapidly gentrifying. Because the term Alphabet City is a relic of a time of high crime, Anglophones refer to this area as part of the East Village while Spanishphones continue to refer to it as part of the East Village. him as Loisaida.

Crime

Alphabet City is patrolled by the New York Police Department's 9th Precinct, located at 321 East 5th Street. The 9th Precinct is ranked 58th of 69 among areas with the lowest crime per capita in 2010.

The 9th Precinct has lower crime rates than it did in the 1990s, with a 78.3% drop in crime of all categories between 1990 and 2018. The precinct has reported 0 murders, 40 rapes, 85 robberies, 149 assaults, 835 thefts and 32 thefts of auto parts in 2018.

Firefighters

Alphabet City has two New York City Fire Department (FDNY) stations:

• Co steps. 3/Bathion 6 - 103 street 13 East
• Pump Co. 28/Ladder Co. 11 - 222 Calle 2 Este

Mail and ZIP codes

Alphabet City is within the ZIP code area 10009. The United States Postal Service operates two post offices near Alphabet City:

• Peter Stuyvesant Station – 335 East 14th Street
• Tompkins Square Station – 244 street 3 East

Notable residents

• Louis Abolafia (1941-1995), artist, social activist, folk figure and hippie candidate for the presidency of the United States.
• Joaquín Badajoz, poet and writer
• Rosario Dawson (born in 1979), Latin actress
• Bobby Driscoll (1937-1968), actor
• Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997), poet, lived on 206 East 7th Street
• Leftöver Crack, punk band
• Luis Guzmán (born in 1956), Puerto Rican actor
• Jonathan Larson (1960-1996), composer and arranger, was resident in the 1980s and 90s.
• John Leguizamo (born in 1964), Hispanic actor, comedian, producer and screenwriter
• Madonna (born in 1958), singer
• Charlie Parker (1920-1955), jazz musician, lived on 151 B Avenue between 9 East and 10 East Street
• Geraldo Rivera (born 1943), television personality, was resident in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
• The Strokes, rock band
• David Byrne, musician, band leader Talking Heads.

In popular culture

Novels and poetry

• The protagonist of the novel The Russian Debutante's Handbook Gary Shteyngart lives in Alphabet City in the mid-1990s.
• A fictitious version of Alphabet City is explored in the supplement Fallen Angels Game Kult.
• Allen Ginsberg wrote many poems related to the streets of his neighborhood Alphabet City.
• Henry Roth's novel Call It Sleep developed in Alphabet Citywhere the main character of the novel and his family lives.
• The novel by Jerome Charyn War Cries Over Avenue C developed in Alphabet City.
• In his book Kitchen ConfidentialAnthony Bourdain says, "A drug-free decision is hardly made. Cannabis, metacualone, cocaine, LSD, psilocytic fungi soaked in honey and used to sweeten tea, drybarbital, tuinal, amphetamines, codeine and, more and more, heroin, which we managed to send a Latin boy to Alphabet City».
• Brendan Deneen's novel of horror/science fiction The Chrysalis Starts Alphabet CityBut it ends in a New Jersey suburb.

comics

• At Marvel Comics, Alphabet City is the location of the X District, also known as the "Mutant People", a ghetto populated mainly by mutants. The ghetto was identified as part of Alphabet City in New X-Men #127. It was described as the area with the highest unemployment in the United States, the highest rate of illiteracy and the most severe conditions of tuguring outside Los Angeles.' (This would suggest you have a very high population.) It was destroyed X-Factor #34.

Books of photographs

• The photo book and text «Alphabet City» by Geoffrey Biddle makes chronicles about life in Alphabet City between 1977 and 1989.
• Martha Cooper’s “Street Play” Photography Book

Places

• The punk house and independent stage of C-Squat concerts is called this way because it is located on Avenida C, between 9th and 10. The artists and bands that came out of this ancient slum include Leftöver Crack, Choking Victim, and Stza. Leftöver Crack makes several references to “9th and C» (new and C), the approximate location of C-Squat in the song «Homeo Apathy» of the album Mediocre Genérica.

Television

• The fictitious 15 in the police drama NYPD Blue cover. Alphabet City at least partly.
• In an apparition The Tonight Show, the writer P. J. O'Rourke said that when he lived in the neighborhood in the late 1960s, it was such a dangerous place that he and his friends referred to A, B and C avenues as "Firebase Alpha», «Firebase Bravo», and «Firebase Charlie», respectively.
• In the episode «My First Kill» (“My First Death”) in the fourth season Scrubs, J.D. (Zach Braff) uses a pole that says "Alphabet City NYC».
• The 1996 TV movie Mrs. Santa Claus is mainly located on A Avenue in Alphabet City in 1910.
• In episode 6 of the 2009 police drama The Unusuals“The Circle Line”, an identity of a thief buys his identification of a dealer in Alphabet City.
• The episode «The Pugilist Break» series Forever deals with a murder that occurs in Alphabet City; The episode shows the history of the neighborhood and its current development and gentrification.
• In the episode «The Safety Dance» in the «second season» of «The Carrie Diaries», Walt helps her in love to move to a department in Alphabet City.
• The Netflix series Russian Doll performs several scenes in Tompkins Square Park and other locations Alphabet City.

Movies

• Josh Pais, who grew up in Alphabet City conceived and directed a personal documentary, 7th Street, premiered in 2003. Filmed for a ten-year period, it is so much a love letter to the characters he saw every day and a chronicle of the changes that took place in the neighborhood.
• The godfather II was filmed in part of street 6, between avenues B and C. With their high budget, they transformed a ruined block, with many empty buildings, into a vibrant 1917 neighborhood. Local residents were kept outside the filming area unless they lived in that block or joined as extras.
• Alphabet City was mentioned in the monologue of Montgomery Brogan in the film 25th Hour.
• A 1984 movie called Alphabet Cityabout the attempts of a drug dealer to abandon his crime life, he developed in the district. It was starred at Vincent Spano, Zohra Lampert and Jami Gertz.
• A 1985 film by Paul Morrissey, Mixed Blood was filmed at the Alphabet City before gentrification in the early 1980s.
• The 1999 film Flawless, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Robert De Niro, and Wilson Jermaine Heredia, develops in Alphabet City where the whole film was made.
• Alphabet City was shown in the film 200 Cigarettesalso in 1999.
• Much of the independent film Super Size Me, premiere in 2004, takes place Alphabet Citynear the residence of director Morgan Spurlock.
• The 2005 Film Rent, starring oRosario Dawson, Wilson Jermaine Heredia, Jesse L. Martin, Anthony Rapp, Adam Pascal, Idina Menzel, Taye Diggs, and Tracie Thoms, is an adaptation of the 1996 Broadway rock opera of the same name of Jonathan Larson (which in turn is strongly based on the Puccini opera) La Boheme) and located in Alphabet City between 11th Street and B Avenue, although several scenes were filmed in San Francisco. Unlike the musical, which is not set in a certain period of time, the film is clear that the story happens between 1989 and 1990. Although this generates some anachronisms in history, the period of time is explicitly mentioned to establish that history happens before the process of gentrification of the Alphabet City.
• Some of the scenes of the 2015 film Ten Thousand Saints take place in Alphabet Citywhere one of the characters lives as a precarious.

Theater

• The Broadway musical Rent takes place in Alphabet City. The characters live on 11 East Street and B Avenue. They spend time in locals East Village like Life Cafe.
• In Tony Kushner's work, Angels in America (and the film adaptation of it), the character Louis makes a comment about "Alphabet Land", noting that it is where the Jews lived when they first arrived in the United States and "now, a hundred years later, it is the place where their ill-fated grandchildren live."
• The winning musical Tony Award Avenue Q takes place on a satirical Alphabet City. When the Princeton character is presented, he says, "I started on A Avenue but everything was far from my budget. But this neighborhood looks a lot cheaper! Hey, look, a ‘rent’ cartel

Music: Specific avenues

• Swans launched a song entitled «93 Ave B blues» that was the address of the department of Michael Gira.
• In the song of Bongwater «Folk Song» there is a choir that says «Hello death, goodbye Avenue A». Ann Magnuson, lead singer of Bongwater, lives on A Avenue.
• «Avenue A» is a song by The Dictators, from his 2001 CD DFFD.
• Pink Martini’s song “Hey Eugene” takes place “at a party at A Avenue”.
• «Avenue A» is a Red Rider song from his 1980 album, Don't Fight It.
• «The Belle of Avenue A» is a song by Ed Sanders.
• Escort mentions A Avenue in the song "Cabaret" of his album Animal Nature.
• The singer Ryan Adams refers to Avenue A and Avenue B on his track "New York, New York".
• The success of the classic salsa of 1978 "Pedro Navaja", by Panamanian singer Rubén Blades, finally says that "the lifeless bodies of Pedro Barrios and Josefina Wilson were found in one of the streets adjacent to the New York Inside Highway, in Lower Manhattan, between A and B avenues"...
• In Lou Reed’s “Halloween Parade”, his acclaimed conceptual album New York, mentions “the boys from B Avenue and the girls from D Avenue”.
• «Avenue B» is a song by Gogol Bordello
• Avenue B It's an album by Iggy Pop, who wrote the album while living at the Christodora House on Avenue B.
• «Avenue B» is a song by Mike Stern
• «Avenue C» is a song of the Count Basie Band, recorded by Barry Manilow in 1974 for his album Barry Manilow II.
• It is mentioned in Sunrise on Avenue CJames Maddock of the album Fragile.
• "Venus of Avenue D" is a Mink DeVille song.
• Avenue D is mentioned in Steely Dan's song, "Daddy Don't Live In That New York City No More" from the 1975 album Katy Lied.
• Avenue D is mentioned in the song "Capital City", by Tony Bennett in the episode of The Simpsons "Dancin' Homer".

Music: General

• Swans was trained in Avenue B.
• Elliott Smith mentions “Alphabet City» in his song, «Alphabet Town», from the album of the same name.
• Alphabet City It's an ABC album.
• «Take A Walk With The Fleshtones» It's a song by The Fleshtones of his album. Beautiful Light (1994). The song dedicates a verse to each avenue.
• Alphabet City is mentioned in the song «Poster Girl» by the Backstreet Boys.
• In the song "New York City", written by Cub and popularized by They Might Be Giants, Alphabet City is mentioned in the choir.
• The Clash mentions the neighborhood in the song «Straight to Hell»: «From Alphabet City all the way a to z, dead, head»
• U2 mentions the neighborhood as “Alphaville” in his song “New York”.
• In his song «Click Click Click Click Click Click Click Click Click Click Click Click Click Click Click Click Click Click Click Click Click Click Click Click Click Click Click Click Click Click Click Click» from the 2007 album Bishop Allen & The Broken String, Bishop Allen sings, "Sure I've got pictures of my own, of all the people and the places that I've known. Here's when I'm carryin' your suitcase, outside of Alphabet City».
• In the song of Dan the Automator "A Better Tomorrow", the rapper Kool Keith rima that he is the "King of New York, running Alphabet City».
• «Alphabet City» is the name of the fifth track launch of 2004, The Wall Against Our Back Columbus, Ohio, Two Cow Garage.
• Steve Earle’s Expression Song “Down Here Below” (pist 2 of Washington Square Serenade) quotes: “And hey, whatever happened to Alphabet City? Ain’t no place left in this town that a poor boy can go»
• The hit dance «Sugar is Sweeter (Danny Saber Mix)» by CJ Bolland refers to the neighborhood with the letters, «Down in Alphabet City... »
• Black Hand mentions Alphabet City in the song “El Jako”, from the album King of Bongo (1991): «Avenue A: Here comes the day/Avenue B: Here goes the junky/Avenue C: There's no rescue/Death avenue is waiting for you» and «Avenue A: Here comes the day/Avenue B: Here goes the junky/Avenue C: It's an emergency/O.D. in Alphabet City ».
• The 1984 album by Joe Jackson Body and Soul has an instrumental track titled "Loisaida".