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David Price's novel Alphabet City (1983) tells the story of a man who leaves London to explore his homosexuality in the "wilderness of Avenues A, B, C and D." [205] Alphabet City is patrolled by the 9th Precinct of the NYPD, located at 321 East 5th Street. [192] The 9th Precinct ranked 58th safest out of 69 patrol areas for per-capita crime in 2010. [193] Part of the rap section was used in the 1990 Ween song " L.M.L.Y.P.". Prince's "No!" scream intro also replaces the word "shit" on the radio edit of their 1993 song " Push th' Little Daisies". The episode "The Pugilist Break" of Forever is about a murder that takes place in Alphabet City; the episode highlights the history of the neighborhood and its current development and gentrification. Sheldon, George William (1882). The Story of the Volunteer Fire Department of the City of New York. Harper & brothers. pp.156–7. OCLC 866246705.

Stokes, Isaac Newton Phelps (1915). "The iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909: compiled from original sources and illustrated by photo-intaglio reproductions of important maps, plans, views, and documents in public and private collections"– via Internet Archive.

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Shaw, Dad. "Rediscovering New York as It Used to Be", The New York Times, November 11, 2007. Accessed August 31, 2016.

Morrison, John H. (1909). History of New York Ship Yards. Press of W.F. Sametz & Co. OCLC 7391026822. Assembly District 65, New York State Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment. Accessed May 5, 2017. LPC Designation Report: Former P.S. 64" (PDF). NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission . Retrieved August 18, 2014.Precinct CompStat Report" (PDF). www.nyc.gov. New York City Police Department . Retrieved July 22, 2018. McNeill, George M. (1887). The Labor Movement: The Problem of To-Day. A.M. Bridgman & Co. p. 344. OCLC 57274104. Avenue D is referred to in the song "Capital City", sung by Tony Bennett in The Simpsons episode " Dancin' Homer".

a b Dolkart, Andrew (2012). Biography of a Tenement House: An Architectural History of 97 Orchard Street. Biography of a Tenement House: An Architectural History of 97 Orchard Street. Center for American Places at Columbia College. ISBN 978-1-935195-29-0 . Retrieved September 30, 2019.In the same act that abolished the market place, the state accommodated a landowner petition to narrow just the lettered avenues. [49] From the standard avenue width of 100 feet (30m), Avenue A was reduced to 80 feet (24m), Avenues B, C and D to 60 feet (18m), the width of most cross-streets. [53] "Incapable of use as thoroughfares to and from the City," wrote the city council, "they cannot be considered as avenues in the proper Sense of the term." Instead, they should "correspond as far as possible with the Old Streets [below Houston] of which they will form the Continuation & be called by the Same names & be regulated by the Corporation as Streets." [51]