Talk:Alphabet City, Manhattan

message: I'm surprised no one has said what Alphabet City's area is...Undead Herle King (talk) 15:18, 28 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: AREA

message: Did I spell that right? Anyway, the fact that the yuppies are taking over, is yes, a negative thing in most people opinions, but not everyones, right? I mean, I think it's a negative thing, but it's still an opinion isn't it? 
Anyway, I removed the "On The Plus Side" and replaced it with "Recently" because new buisness and apartments are NOT neccasarily a good thing. Cyprus 28 June 2005 13:56 (UTC)
:No. Yuppies are pure evil. --Tothebarricades 01:47, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Removal Of Opinion

message: Avenue Q is a parody of Avenues A, B, C, and D?  I thought it referred to Avenue Q in Brooklyn. -- Sheepshead Bay —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.113.104.47 (talk • contribs) 13:56, 13 November 2005
There is no Avenue Q in Brooklyn.  The street which is being refered to is Quentin Road, which is located where Avenue Q would be in the Brooklyn street lettering scheme--Snoopy753 13:52, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: What about the line "I started at Avenue A..." I forget the exact wording, but the jist of it was, he couldn't afford anything he saw until he hit Q. Kuronue 01:49, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Avenue Q

message: Not sure about that. Anyone want to do some research to see if the man who did Supersize Me actually lives here? I was under the impression that he lives in Soho or the LES. 
Then again, depends on your definition of names and borders.
Cyprus 00:59, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Research and Opinions

message: Alphabet city was a term developers coined to make the neighbourhood more popular during gentrification.. It sounds better to potential buyers then "Loisida". 
Maybe this should be changed somehow? —Preceding unsigned comment added by RatherBeBiking (talk • contribs) 20:30, 9 January 2006
"East Village" is the name made up by real estate agents in order to associate the neighborhood with the "classier" West Village. Alphabet City has been the designation for the single letter blocks for many, many years. That being said, most neighborhood names are somewhat arbitrary (except to those of us who live here!) and are constantly shifting according to real estate agents' whims. For instance, the recent creation of "East Williamsburg" in Brooklyn which is really a part of what has traditionally been considered Bushwick. 166.137.14.149 (talk) 09:15, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Title Of The Page 

message: I've noticed that "Avenue A", "Avenue B", etc. all redirect here, but there is a stub article about Avenue A at Avenue A (Manhattan). Should this be merged? Should "Avenue A" be changed to redirect to that stub? --Larry V (talk | contribs) 12:57, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes - I'll do a redirect.  --DavidShankBone 16:13, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Avenue A 

message: This page needs citations!!!  Right now it reads like an opinion piece...it contains some historical/factual stuff but it's not cited!  Surely one could find sources?  Cazort 21:41, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Citations

message: It isn't apparent to people who aren't familiar with New York City whether the location of the neighbourhood on the map is the pink section or the blue section.  Could someone who is familiar with the city edit the caption to clarify this?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.226.14.54 (talk) 08:14, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Map 

message: I removed the bullet point that stated Alphabet City was the backdrop for Taxi Driver, as it's not correct. The tenement where the finale occurs is 240 E. 13th Street (according to the envelop addressed to Iris; on an external shot, the address is 226, street unknown), which is between 2nd and 3rd Avenues.
Also, the film takes place in many other locations around the City: Times Square, Columbus Circle, 63rd and Broadway. And no where is Alphabet City mentioned explicitly. Halda (talk) 18:16, 7 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  ''Taxi Driver'' reference 

message: From the article: It consisted of tenement housing with no running water, and the primary bathing location for residents in the northern half of the area was the Asser Levy bath house on 23rd Street and Avenue C, north of Peter Cooper Village and Stuyvesant Town. 
Is this correct?  Avenue C doesn't go up that high.  At first I thought it was because Stuyvesant Town had been built over the area, but looking at a map, Avenue C can't reach 23rd Street; the East River gets in the way at around 18th.  Since today's Asser Levy Place lines up perfectly with Avenue A, north of Stuy Town and Peter Cooper Village, I'm thinking that the 'Avenue C' part is a mistake.  Should it be corrected? Mark Yaima (talk) 23:43, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  23rd Street and Ave. C? 

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message: The current geographic boundaries of Alphabet City are relatively clear (at most, east of First from the center of Houston to the center of 14th). Yet, as of this note, significant chunks of the article are ripped from the East Village article and apply only to the East Village as a whole (eg, population) or areas outside Alphabet City (eg, early development as a posh residential area). Readers have no way of knowing this because "East Village" has been more or less search-and-replaced with "Alphabet City." Editors, by dint of their conservatism and inclusionism, tend to work around or even elaborate points that were tossed in thoughtlessly.
I want to encourage interested editors to take a scythe to the interloping East Villageana. Not to points that add context or problematize Alphabet City's problematic designation. Not to insufficiently notable facts about Alphabet City. But to East Village statements masquerading as Alphabetic ones (I'm doing what I can, but yeesh it's a mess). Unendin (talk) 19:23, 2 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I've begun the localization process with the "Early development" section (renamed "Before urbanization"). The previous version, drawn largely from Greenwich Village Historical Society reports, treated Alphabet City like the land to the west of it, settled by a succession of people. In fact, it was mostly swamp—claimed and utilized, but not really settled. Unendin (talk) 18:06, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  (Re)focus article on Alphabet City (as opposed to East Village)