LES Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 3. poet who coined the word “Loisaida”
  2. 5. popular 1970’s LES graffiti artist
  3. 7. Bar that featured live latin music and afterwards made punk rock history
  4. 9. park festival honoring beat poet Allen Ginsburg
  5. 11. place where shipbuilders repaired vessels on the LES in the 1800s
  6. 16. Murray the “K” hosted a review in this outdoor music venue on Avenue D
  7. 18. “_______Poets Café”
  8. 20. Pulitzer Prize nominee, UPI photographer & radio host from Avenue D - _______ Peterson
  9. 21. the father of the nuyorican poetry movement - “El Coco Que Habla”
  10. 25. __________ Square Park on Avenue B
  11. 26. NYCHA houses named after creator of Puerto Rican flag
  12. 29. jazz patron and proprietor of the UOTS - Muhammad ______________
  13. 31. bar on East 3rd Street where George Benson & Lee Morgan played
  14. 33. playground structure in Riis housing that looked like Eskimo huts
  15. 34. East 3rd Street bar where Lee Morgan last played
Down
  1. 1. Avenue C – AKA _________ Avenue
  2. 2. park that was the site of NYC’s first potters field
  3. 4. the LES “five & dime”
  4. 6. “_________ Row” - group of 2-story buildings on East 7th Street
  5. 8. godmother of the LES “garden movement” and AIDS activist
  6. 10. silky RnB crooner from LES
  7. 12. PS - the Roberto ________ School
  8. 13. author of “Short Eyes”
  9. 14. Avenue B Puerto Rican bookstore named after a Taíno chief
  10. 15. Puerto Rican martial arts master, Hanshi Wilfredo __________
  11. 17. protector of the masses – Reverend Pedro ___________
  12. 19. program for runaways started on East 7th Street
  13. 22. bar where they filmed “The Verdict” & “Godfather II”
  14. 23. star of “Ragtime” who was from East 8th Street
  15. 24. sax legend who resided on Avenue B in the late-50s
  16. 27. Pedro _______ Campos Plaza
  17. 28. “Some Like It Hot” star who grew up in the LES and went to Seward Park HS
  18. 30. visionary Haitian-Puerto Rican painter who lived on East 12th Street
  19. 32. popular candy store on East 7th Street