Named after 28th Street, home of the music-publishing district called Tin Pan Alley.
Tin Pan Alley, usually dated from about 1885, was the cluster of music publishers on West 28th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues; in 2022 the stretch from Broadway to Sixth Avenue was co-named Tin Pan Alley. Explanations of the nickname conflict; the most popular says it mocked the sound of many cheap upright pianos, like tin pans banging in an alley. The name was firmly attached by autumn 1905.