Possible Clues:

• New York City neighborhood near NoHo
• 1933 film starring Wallace Beery and George Raft
• Street in New York City, formerly frequented by tramps and drunks
• THEME ANSWER 5
• Web theory as applied in Manhattan
• NY street frequented by tramps and other people without shelter
• New York locale for vagrant, one stooping among other people?
• Other people have secured pleasant house in bad New York street