Pleasant Avenue

Pleasant Avenue is a north-south street in the East Harlem neighborhood of the New York City borough of Manhattan. It begins at E. 114th Street and ends at E. 120th Street. Pleasant Avenue was the heart of Italian Harlem from the late 1890s to the 1970s. The small remaining Italian population resides on Pleasant Avenue. Both in real life and in the movies, Pleasant Avenue has long been associated with the Mafia. [Kilgannon, Corey; and Mallozzi, Vincent M. [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C07E7D71531F936A35752C0A9629C8B63 "On Pleasant Avenue, a Mobbed-Up History Is Hard to Live Down"] , "The New York Times", January 5, 2004. Accessed January 1, 2008.]

The street was the northernmost section of Avenue A, which stretched from Alphabet City northward, and were added to the grid wherever space allowed between First Avenue and the East River. This stretch was renamed "Pleasant Avenue" in 1879. [Pollak, Michael. [http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/12/nyregion/thecity/12fyi.html F.Y.I. - They Hear Dead People"] , "The New York Times", December 12, 2004. Accessed January 1, 2008.] [ [http://www.forgotten-ny.com/streetnecrology/AveA/declassified.html De-Classified 4-A] , Forgotten NY. Accessed January 1, 2008.]

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