Avenue B (Manhattan)

For the Iggy Pop album, see Avenue B (album).

Avenue B

45-51 Avenue B between 3rd and 4th Streets
From	East Houston Street
To	East 14th Street
East	Avenue C
West	Avenue A

The landmarked Charlie Parker Residence

Avenue B is a north-south avenue located in the Alphabet City area of the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, east of Avenue A and west of Avenue C. It 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 to South Street. It is the eastern border of Tompkins Square Park.

Landmarks

• The Christodora House, a former women's Settlement House and now a condominium, is located on Avenue B at 9th Street
• The Charlie Parker Residence at 151 Avenue B between 9th and 10th Streets, where jazz musician Charlie "Bird" Parker lived from 1950 to 1954, is a New York City landmark

Transportation

Currently, there is no bus that travels on Avenue B. The M9 bus formerly used this street from East Houston Street to 14th Street. The M9 now travels on Avenue C from Houston to 23rd Streets.

In popular culture

• In 1922 Fannie Brice recorded "The Sheik of Avenue B", a parody of "The Sheik of Araby" written by Harry Ruby and Bert Kalmar
• In Jonathan Larson's musical Rent, most of the characters live on Avenue B and 11th Street
• In 1983 Pierce Turner, Larry Kirwan and Thomas Hamlin wrote "Avenue B (is the place to be)", which was recorded by their band Major Thinkers
• A 1999 Iggy Pop album is entitled Avenue B, written while he was living at Christodora House
• A song by The Fleshtones entitled Take a Walk with the Fleshtones on their album Beautiful Light describes the street scene, starting at "Eleven Eleven" with the chorus repeating "...on Avenue B"
• Gogol Bordello wrote a song called "Avenue B"

References

Notes

External links

• New York Songlines: Avenue B, a virtual walking tour