Alphabet City and Loisaida
Houston to 14th Streets; FDR Drive to Avenue A
The neighborhood of Alphabet City is located in the East Village of Manhattan , New York City. The only streets in Manhattan to have single letter names are Avenues A, B , C and D. It falls under its name. It is bordered by Houston Street to the north and Houston Street to the south and 14th street to the north by the traditional northern edge of the East Village and Peter Cooper Village to the south. The Tompkins Square Park and Nuyorican Poets’ Cafe are two of the prominent landmarks.
The Lenape area was first occupied with the Americans of Lenape. The Lenape moved to the shore for fish during summers and, in the autumn and winter, moved inland for the harvesting of crops. The Dutch West Indian Company, Peter Minuit, acquired Manhattan in 1626 and was appointed the General Manager of New Netherlands, in the year 1632. A number of African free or “free” enclaves were located around those farms, which served as a buffer between the North American and the Dutch. Across what is now Alphabet City there were many boweries. The largest of them was Bowery No. 2, which was subdivided into many inhabitants until Harmen Smeeman was turned over to the eastern half of the world in 1647.
In the late twentieth and early twentieth, Alphabet City was a neighborhood of many New York City. The number of factors in Manhattan, and Alphabet City, in particular, has been lower and rents higher. In the 21st century, Avenue A through D was clearly less bohemian than before. In the 1970s, rent was extremely low, and the neighborhood was considered to be one of the final places where many wanted to live. However, the Times reported as early as 1983 that, as a result of artists’ influx, a large number of long-term establishments and immigrants had to leave due to the increase in rents. The Tompkins Square Park riot of 1988 sparked concerns over gentrification, and came after a proposed curfew targeting the homeless parks had been defeated. As real estate prices decreased, the aftermath of the riot slowed down the gentrification process. But real property prices resumed their rapid rise by the end of the 20th century. About half of the Alphabet City shops had been open during the decade following the revolution, although the vacancy rates declined from 20% to3% during that period.
The neighborhood has a long history serving as the German, Polish, Hispanic and Jewish people’s cultural center and multicultural enclave. The border of the Lower East Side, the Alphabet City and the East Village are however highly disputed. Manhattan’s Lower East Side, in historical terms, was 14th Street on the northern end and was connected by the East River to the east and First Avenue to the west. The region’s declining German influence almost ended following the General Slocum disaster in 1904 in the beginning of the 20th century.
