Nuyorican Poets Café
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The Nuyorican Poets Cafe is a nonprofit organization in the Alphabet City neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. It is a bastion of the Nuyorican art movement, and has become a forum for poetry, music, hip hop, video, visual arts, comedy, and theater. Several events during the PEN World Voices festival are hosted at the cafe.
Nuyorican Poets Cafe building on East 3rd St. in Alphabet City
The exterior walls are painted by a local artist "Chico" who has done neighborhood murals for decades. Above the entry doorway hangs Diana Gitesha Hernandez's acrylic painting.
Alphabet City, Manhattan
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Alphabet City is a neighborhood located within the East Village in the New York City borough of Manhattan. Its name comes from Avenues A, B, C, and D, the only avenues in Manhattan to have single-letter names. It is bounded by Houston Street to the south and 14th Street to the north, and extends roughly from Avenue A to the East River. Some famous landmarks include Tompkins Square Park, the Nuyorican Poets Cafe and the Charlie Parker Residence.
Avenue C was designated Loisaida Avenue in recognition of the neighborhood's Puerto Rican heritage
Preserved salt marsh on Long Island comparable to ecosystem of Alphabet City area before urbanization in the 1820s
Depiction of shipyards in 1848 from across East River
Tompkins Square branch of the New York Public Library on E 10th St.