Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Alphabet City, Manhattan" in English language version.
The term 'Alphabet City' only began to be used when gentrification made its first incursions into the neighborhood during the 1980s.
The property that was then purchased extended from Sixth-street to Thirteenth-street, on the East river, and from the river back to Lewis Street and Avenue D, and from Tenth to Thirteenth-streets, about half the blocks about half way between Avenue D and Avenue C.
Stretching from Avenue A to the East River, and East 14th to East Houston Streets, Alphabet City is ...
This neighborhood was on the east side, and embraced the general lines of the old Eleventh Ward [which ran from Avenue B to the river and from Rivington to 14th Street], though its local designation to this day is 'Dry Dock.'
A few of the largest ship owners at New York ... associated to apply for an act of incorporation too build a dry dock.
