Alphabet City, Manhattan

Alphabet City is a neighborhood in the East Village in New York City's Manhattan. The name is derived from the Avenues A, B, C and D, the only avenues in New York with individual letters. It is bordered on the south by Houston Street and on the north by 23rd Street. The Avenue C was designated in memory of the Puerto Rican heritage of the district as Loisaida Avenue.

Landmarks Alphabet City are the Tompkins Square Park, the Nuyorican Poets Cafe and the Stuyvesant Town. How many neighborhoods in Manhattan's Lower East Side, Alphabet City had become home to many different groups of immigrants. In the 40s and 50s of the 19th century, the majority of today's Alphabet City was a quarter of German immigrants. From about 1900 lived predominantly Jewish, Irish and Italian immigrants in the district, today Alphabet City is a trendy district.