Alphabet Street: A Giant Lift-the-Flap Concertina Book!

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Louis Abolafia (1941-1995) — artist, social activist, folk figure, and hippie candidate for President of the United States In an appearance on The Tonight Show, writer P. J. O'Rourke said that when he lived in the neighborhood in the late 1960s, it was dangerous enough that he and his friends referred to Avenue A, Avenue B, and Avenue C as "Firebase Alpha", "Firebase Bravo", and "Firebase Charlie", respectively. Moynihan, Abram W. (1887). The Old Fifth Street School and the Association which Bears Its Name. A.W. Moynihan. pp. 91-93.

Senate District 28, New York State Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment. Accessed May 5, 2017. Residents call the area east of Avenue A between Houston and 14th Streets "the neighborhood," "The East Village," "The Lower East Side" or its Spanglish version, "Loisaida." That's because calling it "Alphabet City" brings too many memories of the days when outsiders began coming to Avenues A, B, C and D for the galleries, the clubs and the drugs. [18] East 4th Street". Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation. Archived from the original on 2020-09-27 . Retrieved 2014-09-04. The picture of New-York, and Stranger's Guide to the Commercial Metropolis of the United States. A. T. Goodrich. 1828. p. 412. Senate District Maps: New York City, New York State Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment. Accessed November 17, 2018.

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A fictional version of NYC's Alphabet City is explored in the Fallen Angels (1994) supplement to Kult. The 1978 classical salsa hit "Pedro Navaja", by Panamanian singer Rubén Blades, says at the end that the "lifeless bodies" of Pedro Barrios (Pedro Navaja) and Josefina Wilson were found on "lower Manhattan" "between Avenues A and B"... Despite having sought a binding plan, the city requested many modifications from the state during execution, generally along lines demanded by property interests. [46] Given the marshy environs, Alphabet City landowners, mostly Stuyvesants, argued for an extra measure of deference and the city concurred:

Burrows, Edwin G. and Wallace, Mike (1999). Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-195-11634-8. The Clash mentions the neighborhood in the song " Straight to Hell": "From Alphabet City all the way a to z, dead, head" Geraldo Rivera (born 1943) — television personality, resident during the late 60s - early 70s [204] Mano Negra refers to Alphabet City in the song "El Jako", on 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.O.D. in Alphabet City".Brazee, Christopher D.; Most, Jennifer L.; Presa, Donald G.; Kurshan, Virginia (October 9, 2012). East Village/Lower East Side Historic District (PDF) (Report). New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission.