Avenue D is the easternmost named avenue in the East Village neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan, though several thoroughfares (the FDR Drive, for instance) are closer to the East River. Avenue D runs between 14th Street and Houston Street, and continues south of 2nd Street as Columbia Street. Avenue D, together with Avenues A, B and C, provide the name for Alphabet City neighborhood.
The east side of Avenue D is flanked by the Jacob Riis Houses (NYCHA housing), named for famous photographer Jacob Riis, who chronicled the plight of the city's poorest residents.
Avenue D is serviced by the MTA M14 bus.
A public pool is located at the northern end (11th and Avenue D). It is called Dry Dock Pool.
Dry Dock Park: A small park with a pool—named for the neighborhood's former tradition of ship repair. The corner was formerly the site of the Corn Exchange Bank Trust Co.
On Avenue D between 4th and 5th streets, outside the Lillian Wald house, singer Scott Weiland of Stone Temple Pilots was busted for heroin possession on June 1, 1998.
The building on the northwest corner between 5th and 6th streets houses Boys and Girls Republic, formerly Boys Brotherhood Republic, a self-governing youth project of Henry Street Settlement.
Many of the larger Public Housing projects in Alphabet City are on Avenue D. These include Baruch Houses, La Guardia Houses, and the Lillian Wald Houses, named for Lillian D. Wald (1867-1940), who provided aid to the Lower East Side through the Henry Street Settlement and the Visiting Nurses Society.
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