Tin Pan Alley

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Tin Pan Alley is the half-dozen row houses where iconic American songs were born. The four-story, 19th-century buildings on Manhattan's West 28th Street were home to publishers of some of the catchiest American tunes and lyrics — from "God Bless America" and "Take Me Out To The Ballgame" to "Give My Regards to Broadway." The music of Irving Berlin, Scott Joplin, Fats Waller, George M. Cohan and other greats was born on Tin Pan Alley.

The buildings were put up for sale earlier in October of 2008 for $44 million, with plans to replace them with a high-rise. The construction plan fell through amid the turmoil in the economy, but the possibility of losing the historic block hastened efforts to push for landmark status for Tin Pan Alley. A group of New Yorkers is fighting to save Tin Pan Alley.

Jerome H. Remick's music publishing company occupied one of the houses (45 W. 28th, with the blue awning in the above photo) and employed a young sheet music peddler named George Gershwin. Political activist Emma Goldman published her "Mother Earth" magazine at 55 W. 28th.

From the late 1880s to the mid-1950s, the careers of songwriters who are still popular today were launched from these buildings at 45, 47, 49, 51, 53 and 55 West 28th. Nearby, high-rise condominiums have pushed out other old brownstones. The four-story Tin Pan Alley buildings house street-level wholesale and retail stores selling clothing, jewelry and fabrics. Eight apartment units fill the upper floors. It's a noisy neighborhood, with trucks beeping as they back up amid street hawkers selling bootleg movies and knock-off perfumes.

A century ago, the windows of music companies broadcast a cacophony of competing piano sounds that earned the area the nickname Tin Pan Alley, to describe what one journalist said sounded like pounding on tin pans.

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