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It is stated in the memorial [of the landowners] and the fact is unquestionable that the extensive tract of sunken meadow land lying between North Street [now Houston Street] and Brandy mulah Point [Burnt Mill Point, near 12th Street] cannot be improved with any prospect of Benefit to the Owners unless upon the most Economical Scale of Expense and under all the Encouragements which can be offered by the Corporation Consistently with the public Interests. [47] Greider, Katharine (2011). The Archaeology of Home: An Epic Set on a Thousand Square Feet of the Lower East Side. New York: PublicAffairs. p. 10. ISBN 978-1-58648-712-6. OCLC 657595498.

Kaufman, Anthony (2001-07-13). "INTERVIEW: Out of the Past: "Downtown 81's" New York Odyssey". IndieWire.

Assembly District 65, New York State Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment. Accessed May 5, 2017. The photo and text book "Alphabet City" by Geoffrey Biddle [206] chronicles life in Alphabet City over the years 1977 to 1989. Greenhouse Consultants Incorporated (March 2005). Archaeological and Historical Sensitivity Evaluation: 723 East Ninth Street Borough of Manhattan New York, New York (PDF) (Report).

The 1978 classical salsa hit "Pedro Navaja", by Panamanian singer Rubén Blades, says at the end that the "lifeless bodies" of Pedro Barrios (Pedro Navaja) and Josefina Wilson were found on "lower Manhattan" "between Avenues A and B"... Bernard Ratzer (1776). Plan of the city of New York in North America: Surveyed in the years 1766 & 1767 (Map). Jefferys & Faden. Stokes, Isaac Newton Phelps (1926). The Iconography of Manhattan Island Vol. New York: Robert H. Dodd.

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Because most of the new immigrants were German speakers, modern Alphabet City, East Village and the Lower East Side collectively became known as " Little Germany" (German: Kleindeutschland). [119] :29 [126] [127] [128] The neighborhood had the third largest urban population of Germans outside of Vienna and Berlin. It was America's first foreign language neighborhood; hundreds of political, social, sports and recreational clubs were set up during this period. [126] Numerous churches were built in the neighborhood, of which many are still extant. [123] In addition, Little Germany also had its own library on Second Avenue in nearby East Village, [127] now the New York Public Library's Ottendorfer branch. [129] However, the community started to decline after the sinking of the General Slocum on June 15, 1904, in which over a thousand German-Americans died. [127] [130] Geraldo Rivera (born 1943) — television personality, resident during the late 60s - early 70s [204] 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 Avenue D is referred to in the Steely Dan song, "Daddy Don't Live In That New York City No More" off the 1975 album Katy Lied. Birnbach, Lisa (October 1980). The Official Preppy Handbook. Workman Publishing. p.165. ISBN 9780894801402.