One thing about Lou Reed - of Velvet Underground, black fingernail polish and the song "Heroin" fame - is that he made being dope-sick chic well before fashionistas followed suit in the '90s. But in New York of the early 1980s, specifically down on the Lower East Side, it was anything but.This was especially true in Alphabet City, so named for Avenues A, B, C and D. Now it's gentrified beyond all recognition.