Alphabet City
Alphabet City is a neighborhood in the East Village in the New York borough of Manhattan . The name is derived from Avenues A , B , C and D , the only avenues in New York with single letters. It is bordered by Houston Street to the south and 23rd Street to the north . Avenue C was named Loisaida Avenue in memory of the neighborhood's Puerto Rican heritage .
Famous places in Alphabet City are Tompkins Square Park , Nuyorican Poets Cafe, and Stuyvesant Town . Like many neighborhoods in Manhattan's Lower East Side , Alphabet City had become home to many different groups of immigrants. In the 1940s and 50s of the 19th century, most of what is now Alphabet City was a quarter of German migrants . From around 1900, the majority of Jewish , Irish and Italian immigrants lived in the district. Today Alphabet City is a trendy district .
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Coordinates: 40 ° 44 ′ N , 73 ° 59 ′ W