Avenue B (Manhattan)

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

A stiltwalker and a doorman on Avenue B.

Avenue B runs from south to north and is two blocks east of 1st Avenue in Alphabet City, a district within the East Village. 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 the eastern border of Tompkins Square Park.

Transportation

Currently, there is no bus that travels on Avenue B. The former M9 bus used this street from E Houston Street to 14 Street. The M9 now travels on Avenue C from Houston to 23 streets.

Trivia

• 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)" that was recorded by their band Major Thinkers for Epic-Portrait Records.
• A 1999 Iggy Pop album is entitled Avenue B, written while he was living at Christodora House.
• 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