Alphabet City has new developments, like Seven East Village (top left), and new bars, like Lois (top right), but the nabe retains older eateries and its gritty charm (bottom photos). Photos: Richard ...

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Alphabet City, the East Village enclave literally defined by the lettered streets that run north-south through it, is the city’s latest battleground for zoning fights. As it shakes off a heritage once ...

Pittsburgh’s City of Asylum started in 2004 with a mission of providing a voice and temporary home for one exiled, politically oppressed writer at a time. But that mission grew as its first resident ...

Johnny works in middle management for one of the Lower East Side’s most dangerous criminal organizations. The up-and-coming youngster has the smarts to be Alphabet City’s next top crime boss, but not ...

The last we heard, Alphabet’s smart city project was on hold due to privacy concerns, but now it’s moving forward--possibly even bigger than originally planned. Indeed, residents and local government ...