Dirty Blvd. Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Yeahbro25 

Cover art for Dirty Blvd. lyrics by Lou Reed

I wonder if the "dirty blvd." is based on any street in particular or just the life of the lower classes in general. Anybody know the answer?

@Yeahbro25 I wonder this, too, which is how I found this site. Maybe in a lot of towns, if you say "dirty blvd.," everyone knows it, because there is a most infamous street, t not Manhattan. It is pretty rich, or middle class, all the way from Battery Parik up through Harlem, including Spanish Harlem. So maybe, Lou, in his imagination of a poverty-stricken neighborhood imagined upper Manhattan -- not that he had ever been there. Lots of hard-working people, with solid jobs.