"Tin Pan Alley" in today's NY TIMES

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   There is no "tin pan alley" in the BROOKLYN EAGLE (1841-1902).  However,
this is from 4 May 1855, pg. 2:

   Indeed, the _Repository_ says that "on the first evening of his arrival,
the Governor was treated to a "carivari," a serenade of no very delectable
order, being a compound of tin pans, horns, bells, tin whistles, and other
villainous instruments."


   My 1903 (not 1902) NEW YORK WORLD "tin pan alley" was a nice find, but no
one will ever know that.  They'll know what the NY TIMES tells them, that it
was popularized by Monroe Rosenfeld in the 1920s, and that isn't true:


In the 1920's Tin Pan Alley moved to 28th Street between Fifth Avenue and
Broadway. Although etymologists have found the expression used as early as
1902, it was in the 20's that the term was popularized by a reporter,
composer and gambler named Monroe Rosenfeld