Tin Pan Alley Project
By: Alix Cohen May 5, 2023: Tin Pan Alley - West 28th Street between Sixth Avenue and Broadway - was arguably the birthplace of American Popular Music and its industry in the late 19th and early 20th century. Music publishers like M. Witmark and Sons, Shapiro-Remick, Leo Feist, Willis Woodard, and T.B. Harms crowded together for convenience and financial considerations. Some had been salesmen in other fields, some…