Alley public, although other commentators feel that the lack of alleys is a benefit to the quality of life of the city. Two notable alleys in the Greenwich Village neighborhood in Manhattan are MacDougal Alley and Washington Mews. The latter is a blind alley or "cul-de-sac". Greenwich Village also has a number of private alleys that lead to back houses, which can only be accessed by residents, including Grove Court, Patchin Place and Milligan Place, blind alleys. Patchin Place is notable for the writers who lived there. Shubert Alley is a long pedestrian alley at the heart of the Broadway theater
Open Sesame (phrase) Open Sesame (phrase) "Open Sesame" () () is a magical phrase in the story of "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" in "One Thousand and One Nights". It opens the mouth of a cave in which forty thieves have hidden a treasure. The phrase first appears in Antoine Galland's "Les Mille et une nuits" (1704–1717) as "Sésame, ouvre-toi" (English, "Sesame, open!"). No earlier oral or written version of the story is known in any language. Galland's phrase has been variously translated from the French into English as "Sesame, Open", "Open, Sesame" and "Open, O Simsim". Open Sesame has been classified