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

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Congressional District 12, New York State Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment. Accessed May 5, 2017. Steinberg, Theodore (2014). Gotham Unbound: The Ecological History of Greater New York. New York: Simon & Schuster. pp. 73-76. ISBN 9781476741246.

Public National Bank of New York Building" (PDF). New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. September 16, 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 19, 2021 . Retrieved December 2, 2021. The wordplay spilled over into Alphabet St.’s video. Initially choosing not to record promo clips for an album he hoped listeners would experience as “a mind trip, like a psychedelic movie” (an Alphabet St. remix would, fittingly, be subtitled This Is Not Music, This Is A Trip), Prince had a change of heart on a snowy Sunday in late March 1988, just a few weeks ahead of Alphabet St.’s release as a single. Assembling a local cable-TV crew for a shoot at Paisley Park, he danced and mimed singing and playing the song in front of a green screen. In post-production, Prince scattered an alphabet soup’s worth of letters throughout the clip, at one point making it look as though he’d crashed his Thunderbird into an assortment sent bouncing off the car’s windshield. The city built First Houses on the south side of East 3rd Street between First Avenue and Avenue A, and on the west side of Avenue A between East 2nd and East 3rd Streets in 1935–1936, the first such public housing project in the United States. [124] :769–770 [141] :1 The Polish enclave in the East Village persisted, though numerous other immigrant groups had moved out, and their former churches were sold and became Orthodox cathedrals. [142] Latin American immigrants started to move to the East Side, settling in the eastern part of the neighborhood and creating an enclave that later came to be known as Loisaida. [143] [144] [145] Maritime historian Charles Lawesson places Brownne's shipyard on the north side of Houston Street in the Alphabet City area proper. [72]

The recording: An ever-expanding sonic palette

Downtown 81 (2000) was shot in the area around 1981, but only completed and released decades later. Characterized as "a road movie through Alphabet City," [208] the film follows then-practically-unknown artist Jean-Michel Basquiat as he encounters an assortment of downtown musicians and scenesters. Alphabet Street is a fabulously fun and unique publication … Modern, digital illustrations in a retro style and colour palette set the scene and suit the charming text wonderfully.”

Avenue D is referred to in the song "Capital City", sung by Tony Bennett in The Simpsons episode " Dancin' Homer".The term first appeared in the Times in an April 1984 editorial by Mayor Ed Koch justifying recent police operations: Stuyvesant Meadows 1832, "Report of Edward Doughty, City Surveyor, on Report of Commissioners, &c. in Common Council, Sep. 25th, 1826".

The dance hit "Sugar is Sweeter (Danny Saber Mix)" by CJ Bolland refers to the neighborhood with the lyrics, "Down in Alphabet City..." IF YOU'RE THINKING OF LIVING IN; THE EAST VILLAGE". The New York Times. October 6, 1985. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved October 3, 2019. Hill, Geo. Everett; Waring, Geo. E Jr. (1897). "Old Wells and Water Courses of The Island of Manhattan, Part II". In Goodwin, Maud Wilder (ed.). Historic New York; being the first series of the Half Moon papers. Putnam.St. Mark's Historic District, Borough of Manhattan (PDF) (Report). New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. January 14, 1969. p.1.