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Alphabet St." is a song from American musician Prince's tenth album, Lovesexy (1988). It was the first single from that album and the album's only top 10 single, reaching the top 10 in both the UK and US. Initially written as an acoustic blues song, the song's final version includes a rap by Cat Glover and is full of samples. "Alphabet St." generally echoes themes from the rest of Lovesexy. Bishop, J. Leander (1868). A History of American Manufactures from 1608 to 1860. Vol.3. E. Young. pp. 120-122. Scottish noise pop band The Jesus and Mary Chain covered this song which appears on their 1994 single " Come On".

Henry Roth's novel Call It Sleep (1934) takes place in Alphabet City, with the novel's main character, David and his family, living there.Van Zwieten, Adriana E. (2001). "A little land ... to sow some seeds": Real property, custom, and law in the community of New Amsterdam (Thesis). OCLC 52320808. There is disagreement about the earliest uses of the name. It is often characterized as a marketing invention of realtors and other gentrifiers who arrived in the 1980s. [6] [7] However, sociologist Christopher Mele connects the term to the arts scene of the late 1970s which in turn attracted real estate investors. [8] As such, argues Mele, Alphabet City and its many variants—Alphaville, [9] Alphabetland, [10] etc.—were "playful" but also "concealed the area's rampant physical and social decline and downplayed the area’s Latino identity." [8] Pete Hamill, a longtime New York City journalist, cites darker origins. NYPD officers, he claims, referred to the most degraded areas east of Avenue B as Alphabet City in the 1950s. [11] O'Donnell, R. T. (2003). Ship ablaze: The tragedy of the steamboat General Slocum. New York: Broadway Books. ISBN 0-7679-0905-4.

Sanders, R.; Gillon, E.V. (1979). The Lower East Side: A Guide to Its Jewish Past with 99 New Photographs. Dover books on New York City. Dover Publications. p.13. ISBN 978-0-486-23871-5 . Retrieved September 1, 2019. Stokes, Isaac Newton Phelps (1926). The Iconography of Manhattan Island Vol. New York: Robert H. Dodd.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. Buttenwieser, Ann (1987). Manhattan, Water-Bound: Planning and Developing Manhattan's Waterfront from the Seventeenth Century to the Present. New York: New York University Press. pp.26–27. ISBN 978-0-8147-1093-7. OCLC 14691918. The 9th Precinct has a lower crime rate than in the 1990s, with crimes across all categories having decreased by 78.3% between 1990 and 2018. The precinct reported 0 murders, 40 rapes, 85 robberies, 149 felony assaults, 161 burglaries, 835 grand larcenies, and 32 grand larcenies auto in 2018. [194] Fire safety [ edit ] Ladder Co. 3/Battalion 6 And yet Cat Glover’s turn on the mic does as much to confirm this as it does refute it. “Straight up, it tastes good/It makes you feel clever,” she asserts, before channelling lyrical imagery which would later resurface during Prince’s Diamonds And Pearls era: “Then you jerk your body like a horny pony would.” Certainly, Prince cultivated his reputation as a stallion, boasting even in Alphabet St. of driving his “daddy’s Thunderbird/A white rad ride, ’66/So glam, it’s absurd” (a downsized replica of the car would take him to the stage nightly on the Lovesexy Tour). But Glover’s rap also hints at the spiritual concept behind the song’s parent album: “lovesexy”, she says, “Was the glam of them all/You can hang, you can trip on it/You surely won’t fall.” East 4th Street". Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation. Archived from the original on 2020-09-27 . Retrieved 2014-09-04.