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Avenue B runs from south to north and is two blocks east of 1st Avenue. It is among the avenues which are defined by letters, as opposed to more familiar numbering system New York City borough of Manhattan. Avenue B runs from Houston Street to 14th Street, where it continues into a loop road in Stuyvesant Town, to be connected with Avenue A. Below Houston Street, Avenue B continues as Clinton Street.
It is considered to be in the middle of Alphabet City in the East Village. It is also the eastern border of Tompkins Square Park.
Transportation
The M9 bus route serves Avenue B between 14th Street and Houston Street.
Trivia
- In Johnathan Larson's musical Rent, most of the characters live on Avenue B and 11th Street.
- A 1999 Iggy Pop album is entitled Avenue B.
- Gogol Bordello wrote a song called "Avenue B".
- The Christodora House, a former women's Settlement House and now a condominium, is located on Avenue B at 9th Street.
External links
- New York Songlines: Avenue B, a virtual walking tour
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