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The Bowery
Looking north from Houston Street
Former name(s)
Bowery

Bowery Lane (prior to 1807)
Length
1.6 km (1.0 mi)
South end
Chatham Square
North end
East 4th Street (continues as Cooper Square)
Looking north from Grand Street, circa 1910
The
Bowery

Bowery (/ˈbaʊ.əri/)[1] is a street and neighborhood in the
southern portion of the
New York City

New York City borough of Manhattan. The street
runs from
Chatham Square

Chatham Square at Park Row, Worth Street, and
Mott Street

Mott Street in
the south to
Cooper Square

Cooper Square at 4th Street in the north,[2] while the
neighborhood's boundaries are roughly East 4th Street] and the East
Village to the north; Canal Street and Chinatown to the south; Allen
Street and the
Lower East Side

Lower East Side to the east; and Little Italy to the
west.[3]
In the 17th century, the road branched off Broadway north of Fort
Amsterdam at the tip of
Manhattan

Manhattan to the homestead of Peter
Stuyvesant, director-general of New Netherland. The street was known
as
Bowery

Bowery Lane prior to 1807.[4] "Bowery" is an anglicization of the
Dutch bouwerij, derived from an antiquated Dutch word for "farm": In
the 17th century the area contained many large farms.[2]
A
New York City

New York City Subway station named Bowery, serving the BMT Nassau
Street Line (J, M, and Z trains), is located close to the Bowery's
intersection with Delancey and Kenmare Streets. There is a tunnel
under the
Bowery

Bowery once intended for use by proposed, but never built,
New York City

New York City Subway services, including the Second Avenue
Subway.[5][6]
Contents
1 History
1.1 Colonial and Federal periods
1.2 Rise of the area
1.3 Slide from respectability
1.4 Revival
2 Areas
2.1
Bowery

Bowery Historic District
2.2 Little Saigon
3 Notable places
3.1 Amato Opera
3.2 Bank buildings
3.3
Bowery

Bowery Ballroom
3.4
Bowery

Bowery Mural
3.5
Bowery

Bowery Poetry
3.6
Bowery

Bowery Theatre
3.7 CBGB
3.8 New Museum
4 Notable people
5 In popular culture
6 See also
7 References
8 External links
History[edit]
The
Bowery

Bowery (unmarked), leading to the "Road to Kings Bridge, where the
Rebels mean to make a Stand" in a British map of 1776
Colonial and Federal periods[edit]
The
Bowery

Bowery is the oldest thoroughfare on
Manhattan

Manhattan Island, preceding
European intervention as a
Lenape

Lenape footpath, which spanned roughly the
entire length of the island, from north to south.[7] When the Dutch
settled
Manhattan

Manhattan island, they named the path Bouwerij
road—"bouwerij" being an old Dutch word for "farm"[8]—because it
connected farmlands and estates on the outskirts to the heart of the
city in today's Wall Street/
Battery Park

Battery Park area.
In 1654, the Bowery’s first residents settled in the area of Chatham
Square; ten freed enslaved men and their wives set up cabins and a
cattle farm there. Petrus Stuyvesant, the last Dutch governor of New
Amsterdam before the English took control, retired to his
Bowery

Bowery farm
in 1667. After his death in 1672, he was buried in his private chapel.
His mansion burned down in 1778 and his great-grandson sold the
remaining chapel and graveyard, now the site of the Episcopal church
of St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery.[9]
In her Journal of 1704–05,
Sarah Kemble Knight

Sarah Kemble Knight describes the Bowery
as a leisure destination for residents of
New York City

New York City in December:
Their Diversions in the Winter is Riding Sleys about three or four
Miles out of Town, where they have Houses of entertainment at a place
called Bowery, and some go to friends Houses who handsomely treat
them. [...] I believe we mett 50 or 60 slays that day—they fly with
great swiftness and some are so furious that they'le turn out of the
path for none except a Loaden Cart. Nor do they spare for any
diversion the place affords, and sociable to a degree, they'r Tables
being as free to their Naybours as to themselves.
By 1766, when
John Montresor

John Montresor made his detailed plan of New York,[10]
"Bowry Lane", which took a more north-tending track at the rope walk,
was lined for the first few streets with buildings that formed a solid
frontage, with market gardens behind them; when Lorenzo Da Ponte, the
librettist for Mozart's Don Giovanni, The Marriage of Figaro, and
Così fan tutte, immigrated to
New York City

New York City in 1806, he briefly ran
one of the shops along the Bowery, a fruit and vegetable store. In
1766, straight lanes led away at right angles to gentlemen's seats,
mostly well back from the dusty "Road to Albany and Boston", as it was
labeled on Montresor's map; Nicholas Bayard's was planted as an avenue
of trees. James Delancey's grand house, flanked by matching
outbuildings, stood behind a forecourt facing
Bowery

Bowery Lane; behind it
was his parterre garden, ending in an exedra, clearly delineated on
the map.
The
Bull's Head Tavern

Bull's Head Tavern in the Bowery, 1801-c.1860
The
Bull's Head Tavern

Bull's Head Tavern was noted for George Washington's having
stopped there for refreshment before riding down to the waterfront to
witness the departure of British troops in 1783. Leading to the Post
Road, the main route to Boston, the
Bowery

Bowery rivaled Broadway as a
thoroughfare; as late as 1869, when it had gained the "reputation of
cheap trade, without being disreputable" it was still "the second
principal street of the city".[11]
Rise of the area[edit]
As the population of
New York City

New York City continued to grow, its northern
boundary continue to move, and by the early 1800s the
Bowery

Bowery was no
longer a farming area outside the city. The street gained in
respectability and elegance, becoming a broad boulevard, as
well-heeled and famous people moved their residences there, including
Peter Cooper, the industrialist and philanthropist.[2] The Bowery
began to rival
Fifth Avenue

Fifth Avenue as an address.[2]
When
Lafayette Street

Lafayette Street was opened parallel to the
Bowery

Bowery in the 1820s,
the
Bowery Theatre

Bowery Theatre was founded by rich families on the site of the Red
Bull Tavern, which had been purchased by John Jacob Astor; it opened
in 1826 and was the largest auditorium in
North America

North America at the
time.[2] Across the way the
Bowery Amphitheatre was erected in 1833,
specializing in the more populist entertainments of equestrian shows
and circuses. From stylish beginnings, the tone of
Bowery

Bowery Theatre's
offerings matched the slide in the social scale of the
Bowery

Bowery itself.
Berenice Abbott

Berenice Abbott photograph of a
Bowery

Bowery restaurant in 1935, when the
street was lined with flophouses
Slide from respectability[edit]
By the time of the Civil War, the mansions and shops had given way to
low-brow concert halls, brothels, German beer gardens, pawn shops, and
flophouses, like the one at No.15 where the composer Stephen Foster
lived in 1864.[12]
Theodore Dreiser

Theodore Dreiser closed his tragedy Sister Carrie,
set in the 1890s, with the suicide of one of the main characters in a
Bowery

Bowery flophouse. The Bowery, which marked the eastern border of the
slum of "Five Points", had also become the turf of one of America's
earliest street gangs, the nativist
Bowery

Bowery Boys. In the spirit of
social reform, the first
YMCA

YMCA opened on the
Bowery

Bowery in 1873;[13]
another notable religious and social welfare institution established
during this period was the
Bowery

Bowery Mission, founded in 1880 at 36
Bowery

Bowery by Reverend Albert Gleason Ruliffson. The mission has relocated
along the
Bowery

Bowery throughout its lifetime. From 1909 to the present,
the mission has remained at 227–229 Bowery.
By the 1890s, the
Bowery

Bowery was a center for prostitution that rivaled
the Tenderloin, also in Manhattan, and for bars catering to gay men
and some lesbians at various social levels, from The Slide at 157
Bleecker Street, New York's "worst dive",[14] to Columbia Hall at 5th
Street, called Paresis Hall. One investigator in 1899 found six
saloons and dance halls, the resorts of "degenerates" and "fairies",
on the
Bowery

Bowery alone.[15]
Gay

Gay subculture was more highly visible there
and more integrated into working-class male culture than it was to
become in the following generations, according to historian George
Chauncey.
The
Bowery

Bowery Lodge is one of the last remaining flophouses on the Bowery
From 1878 to 1955 the
Third Avenue El

Third Avenue El ran above the Bowery, further
darkening its streets, populated largely by men. "It is filled with
employment agencies, cheap clothing and knickknack stores, cheap
moving-picture shows, cheap lodging-houses, cheap eating-houses, cheap
saloons", writers in
The Century Magazine

The Century Magazine found it in 1919. "Here,
too, by the thousands come sailors on shore leave,—notice the
'studios' of the tattoo artists,—and here most in evidence are the
'down and outs'".[16]
Prohibition

Prohibition eliminated the Bowery's numerous
saloons: One Mile House, the "stately old tavern... replaced by a
cheap saloon"[17] at the southeast corner of Rivington Street, named
for the battered milestone across the way,[18] where the politicians
of the East Side had made informal arrangements for the city's
governance, [19][20] was renovated for retail space in 1921,
"obliterating all vestiges of its former appearance", The New York
Times reported. Restaurant supply stores were among the businesses
that had come to the Bowery,[21] and many remain to this day.
Pressure for a new name after World War I came to naught[21] and in
the 1920s and 1930s, it was an impoverished area. From the 1940s
through the 1970s, the
Bowery

Bowery was New York City's "Skid Row," notable
for "
Bowery

Bowery Bums" (disaffiliated alcoholics and homeless persons).[22]
Among those who wrote about
Bowery

Bowery personalities was New Yorker staff
member Joseph Mitchell (1908–1996). Aside from cheap clothing stores
that catered to the derelict and down-and-out population of men,
commercial activity along the
Bowery

Bowery became specialized in used
restaurant supplies and lighting fixtures.[2] In the 1930s and again
in 1947, there were efforts to change the name of the
Bowery

Bowery to
something more "dignified and prosaic", such as "Fourth Avenue
South".[23]
Revival[edit]
Avalon
Bowery

Bowery Place, one of several new luxury developments on the
Bowery
85, 83, 81
Bowery

Bowery (from left to right) in 2010. The first building
housed 75 tenants in January 2018
The vagrant population of the
Bowery

Bowery declined after the 1970s, in part
because of the city's effort to disperse it.[2] Since the 1990s the
entire
Lower East Side

Lower East Side has been reviving. As of July 2005,
gentrification is contributing to ongoing change along the Bowery. In
particular, the number of high-rise condominiums is growing. In 2006,
AvalonBay Communities

AvalonBay Communities opened its first luxury apartment complex on the
Bowery, which included a Whole Foods Market. Avalon
Bowery

Bowery Place was
quickly followed with the development of Avalon
Bowery

Bowery Place II in
2007. That same year, the SANAA-designed facility for the New Museum
of Contemporary Art opened between Stanton and Prince Street.
The new development has not come without social costs. Michael
Dominic's 2001 documentary Sunshine Hotel followed the lives of
residents of one of the few remaining flophouses. Construction on the
Wyndham Garden Hotel at 93
Bowery

Bowery in the late Aughts, destabilized
neighboring building 128 Hester Street (owned by the same man, William
Su), and 60 tenants were thrown out of the building with the help of
the Department of Buildings.[24] At least 75 tenants were displaced
from 83-85
Bowery

Bowery in January 2018 in frigid temperatures due to
long-overdue repairs that needed to be made. Tenants accuse the
landlord of using this displacement to start renovating the buildings
into a hotel,[25] and they went on a hunger strike.[26]
The
Bowery

Bowery from Houston to
Delancey Street

Delancey Street still serves as New York's
principal market for restaurant equipment, and from Delancey to Grand
for lamps.
Areas[edit]
Bowery

Bowery Historic District[edit]
In October 2011, a
Bowery

Bowery Historic District was registered with the
New York State Register of Historic Places

New York State Register of Historic Places and, because of that,
automatically nominated for listing on the National Register of
Historic Places. A grassroots community organization named Bowery
Alliance of Neighbors (BAN) in association with the community-based
housing organization called the Two Bridges Neighborhood Council led
the effort for creation of the historic district. The designation
means that property owners will have financial incentives to restore
rather than demolish old buildings on the Bowery.[27] BAN was
recognized for its preservation efforts with a Village Award[28] from
the
Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation

Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation in 2013.
The historic district runs from
Chatham Square

Chatham Square to
Astor Place

Astor Place on both
sides of the Bowery.
Little Saigon[edit]
New York's "Little Saigon", though not officially designated, exists
on the
Bowery

Bowery between Grand Street and Hester Street.[29] New York
magazine claims that while this street blends in with neighboring
Chinatown, the area is filled with Vietnamese restaurants.[30]
Notable places[edit]
Amato Opera[edit]
Main article: Amato Opera
This company, founded in 1948 by Tony Amato and his wife, Sally, found
a permanent home at 319
Bowery

Bowery next to the former
CBGB

CBGB and afforded
many young singers the opportunity to hone their craft in full-length
productions with a cut-down orchestration. The curtain fell on this
well-established NYC opera forum on May 31, 2009, when Tony Amato
retired.
Bank buildings[edit]
The
Bowery Savings Bank

Bowery Savings Bank was chartered in May 1834, when the
Bowery

Bowery was
an upscale residential street, and grew with the rising prosperity of
the city. Its 1893 headquarters building remains a
Bowery

Bowery landmark, as
does the 1920s domed Citizens Savings Bank.[31]
Bowery

Bowery Ballroom[edit]
Main article:
Bowery

Bowery Ballroom
The
Bowery Ballroom

Bowery Ballroom is a music venue. The structure, at 6 Delancey
Street, was built just before the Stock Market Crash of 1929. It stood
vacant until the end of World War II, when it became a high-end retail
store. The neighborhood subsequently went into decline again, and so
did the caliber of businesses occupying the space.[32] In 1997 it was
converted into a music venue. It has a capacity of 550 people.[33]
Directly in front of the venue's entrance is the
Bowery

Bowery Station (J, M,
and Z trains) of the
New York City

New York City Subway.
The club serves as the namesake of at least one recording: Joan Baez's
Bowery

Bowery Songs album, recorded live at a concert at the
Bowery

Bowery Ballroom
in November 2004.
Bowery

Bowery Mural[edit]
Barry McGee

Barry McGee mural
The
Bowery

Bowery Mural is an outdoor exhibition space located on the corner
of
Houston Street

Houston Street and the Bowery, on a wall owned by Goldman
Properties since 1984. Real estate developer
Tony Goldman began the
project with Jeffery Deitch and
Deitch Projects in 2008. Goldman’s
goal was to use this wall to present the top contemporary artists from
around the world, with an emphasis on artists who work on the streets.
Seasonal murals have appeared on the wall curated and organized in
collaboration with The Hole, NYC, an art gallery in SoHo run by former
Deitch Projects directors Kathy Grayson and Meghan Coleman.
The mural series was initiated from March to December 2008 with a
tribute to Keith Haring’s noted 1982
Bowery

Bowery mural. This was followed
by a mural by the Brazilian twin-brother duo Os Gêmeos, which they
dedicated to artist Dash Snow, who had recently died from a drug
overdose; this was presented from July 2009 to March 2010. The next
mural, by Shepard Fairey, was on exhibit from April through August
2010, and was followed by a mural by
Barry McGee

Barry McGee which celebrated the
role of graffiti tagging in the history of
New York City

New York City street art;
it was on display from August to November 2010. This was followed by a
tribute to
Dash Snow

Dash Snow by Irak, which ran from November 24–26,
2010.[34] Other artists to have murals presented include the twins How
& Nosm (2012), Crash (2013),
Martha Cooper

Martha Cooper (2013), Revok and POSE
(2013), Swoon (2014), and
Maya Hayuk

Maya Hayuk (whose mural was tag-bombed
several times shortly after its completion in 2014).[35][36]
Bowery

Bowery Poetry[edit]
Bowery Poetry Club

Bowery Poetry Club (2006)
Main article:
Bowery

Bowery Poetry Club
Bowery

Bowery Poetry is a performance space at
Bowery

Bowery and Bleecker Street. It
was founded in 2001 as
Bowery Poetry Club

Bowery Poetry Club (BPC), and provided a home
base for established and upcoming artists. It was founded by Bob
Holman, owner of the building and former
Nuyorican Poets Café

Nuyorican Poets Café Poetry
Slam MC (1988–1996). The BPC featured regular shows by Amiri Baraka,
Anne Waldman, Taylor Mead, Taylor Mali, along with open mic, gay
poets, a weekly poetry slam, and an
Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson Marathon, amongst
other events. The club closed in 2012 and reopened in 2013 as a shared
performance space under the name "
Bowery

Bowery Poetry".
Bowery

Bowery Arts +
Science presents poetry, and Duane Park presents alternative burlesque
in this space.[37]
Bowery

Bowery Theatre[edit]
Main article:
Bowery

Bowery Theatre
The
Bowery Theatre

Bowery Theatre was a 19th-century playhouse at 46 Bowery. It was
founded in the 1820s by rich families to compete with the upscale Park
Theatre. By the 1850s, the theatre came to cater to immigrant groups
such as the Irish, Germans, and Chinese. It burned down four times in
17 years, and a fire in 1929 destroyed it for good.
CBGB[edit]
Main article: CBGB
CBGB, a club that was opened to play country, bluegrass & blues
(as the name
CBGB

CBGB stands for), began to book Television, Patti Smith,
and the
Ramones

Ramones as house bands in the mid-1970s. This spawned a
full-blown scene of new bands (Talking Heads, Blondie, edgy
R&B-influenced Mink DeVille, rockabilly revivalist Robert Gordon,
and others) performing mostly original material in a mostly raw and
often loud and fast attack. The label of punk rock was applied to the
scene even if not all the bands that made their early reputations at
the club were punk rockers, strictly speaking, but
CBGB

CBGB became known
as the American cradle of punk rock.
CBGB

CBGB closed on October 31, 2006,
after a long battle by club owner
Hilly Kristal

Hilly Kristal to extend its lease.
The space is now a
John Varvatos

John Varvatos boutique.
New Museum[edit]
Main article: New Museum
In December 2007, the
New Museum

New Museum opened the doors of its new location
at 235 Bowery, at Prince Street, continuing its focus of exhibiting
international and women artists and artists of color. This new
facility, designed by the Tokyo-based firm Sejima + Nishizawa/SANAA
and the New York-based firm Gensler, has greatly expanded the
Museum’s exhibitions and space. In March 2008, the museum's new
building was named one of the architectural seven wonders by Conde
Nast Traveler.[38] The museum has an ongoing
Bowery

Bowery Project honoring
artists who lived on the
Bowery

Bowery with taped interviews and archived
records.[39]
Notable people[edit]
Béla Bartók

Béla Bartók lived in 350
Bowery

Bowery at the corner of Great Jones Street
during the 1940s.
William S. Burroughs

William S. Burroughs kept an apartment at the former
YMCA

YMCA building at
222 Bowery, known as the Bunker, from 1974 until he moved to Lawrence,
Kansas, in 1981.
Jim Gaffigan
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Jim Gaffigan lives with his wife and five children in a five-story
walk-up apartment on the Bowery.
Michael Goldberg lived at 222 Bowery.
Eva Hesse
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Eva Hesse lived in her studio at 134 Bowery.
Owen Kildare

Owen Kildare (1864-1911) American writer whose short stories and
novels described the grim realities of life in a New York slum, known
as "the Mr. Bounderby of American Letters"[40] and "the Kipling of the
Bowery".[41]
Abstract painter
Ronnie Landfield

Ronnie Landfield lived at 94 Bowery.
Doorman-to-the-stars
Haoui Montaug lived at the corner of
Bowery

Bowery and
East 2nd Street. He committed suicide in his apartment after inviting
twenty guests for the occasion.[42][43]
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, lived on
Bowery

Bowery when the Hare
Krishna Movement began in America in 1966.
Joey Ramone

Joey Ramone resided in the area, and in 2003 a part of 2nd Street near
the intersection of
Bowery

Bowery and 2nd Street was renamed Joey Ramone
Place.[44][45]
Terry Richardson

Terry Richardson lives in his studio on
Bowery

Bowery south of Houston
Street.
Mark Rothko, the
Abstract Expressionist

Abstract Expressionist painter, had a studio at 222
Bowery.
Cy Twombly

Cy Twombly lived on the third floor of 356
Bowery

Bowery during the 1960s.
Tom Wesselman

Tom Wesselman had a studio on
Bowery

Bowery in the building now adjacent to
the New Museum.
Peter Young lived at 94 Bowery
In popular culture[edit]
Steve Brodie's bar at 114 Bowery
Sheet Music to The Bowery, 1892
Literature
Bowery

Bowery is the setting for Stephen Crane's first novel, Maggie: A Girl
of the Streets (published in 1893), about a poor family living in the
neighborhood.
New York School poet
Ted Berrigan mentions the
Bowery

Bowery several times in
his seminal work "The Sonnets".
In
Jack Kirby

Jack Kirby and Stan Lee's
Fantastic Four
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Fantastic Four #4 (1962), the Human Torch
flees to the
Bowery

Bowery to lose himself "among all the other human
derelicts..." In one of the Bowery's flophouses, he discovers the
amnesiac 1940s-era character Namor the Sub-Mariner.[46]
The
Wild Cards series of books sets the
Bowery

Bowery as Jokertown, the place
where the malformed go to live after the Wild Card Virus is released
over New York.
Brenda Coultas' 2003 book of poetry, A Handmade Museum, contains a
section called "the
Bowery

Bowery Project" which documents the
pre-gentrification process.
Music
Over the years, the
Bowery

Bowery has been mentioned in the lyrics of a
number of songs, including the
Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan song "Bob Dylan's 115th
Dream", from the album
Bringing It All Back Home

Bringing It All Back Home (1965): "I walked by
a Guernsey cow / Who directed me down / To the
Bowery

Bowery slums / Where
people carried signs around / Saying, 'Ban the bums.'"
Exuma, Bahamian folk singer and then resident of
New York City

New York City has a
song called "The Bowery" in his 1971 album Doo Wah Nanny. It describes
the place as a "skid row".
The street has also been mentioned in songs by Broken Bells, They
Might Be Giants, Willie Nile, Jim Croce, Regina Spektor, Dire Straits,
Bill Callahan, Saint Etienne the Vancouver
Twee pop band cub, Sonic
Youth, Two Gallants, Steve Earle, Beastie Boys, Paul McDermott, Billy
Joel, The Decemberists, Tom Waits, Ryan Adams, The Clash, the Ramones,
Jesse Malin

Jesse Malin and The Foetus All-Nude Revue, The Lumineers, Earlimart,
Deerhunter, Local Natives, Smog, Blood Orange, The Antlers, Lady Gaga,
Kygo
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Kygo among others.
Bowery

Bowery is mentioned as a place where love and gin can be found in the
lyrics of Stephin Merritt's song "Love is Like a Bottle of Gin" from
the album 69 Love Songs.
Rock band
Bowery

Bowery Electric's name was originated by Lawrence Chandler
while residing in the area.
Stage
The phrase "On the Bowery", which has since fallen into disuse, was a
generic way to say one was down-and-out. It originated in the song
"The Bowery" from the 1891 musical A Trip to Chinatown,[47] which
included the chorus "The Bow’ry, The Bow’ry! / They say such
things, / and they do strange things / on the Bow’ry"[48]
On the Bowery, an 1894 play starring Steve Brodie, supposed Brooklyn
Bridge jumper and
Bowery

Bowery saloonkeeper.
In Disney's "Newsies", the showgirls featured in the song, "I Never
Planned On You/ Don't Come A-Knocking" are called the
Bowery

Bowery Beauties.
Film and TV
The 1925 film Little Annie Rooney takes place in the Bowery.
The Bowery, a 1933 film about Brodie.
The
Bowery

Bowery is portrayed in the 1934
Krazy Kat

Krazy Kat cartoon
Bowery

Bowery Daze.
A popular B-movie series made between 1946 and 1958 featured "The
Bowery

Bowery Boys", led by Slip (Leo Gorcey) and Satch (Huntz Hall).
The 1949 cartoon "
Bowery

Bowery Bugs" tells a fictionalized version of the
Steve Brodie story, with
Bugs Bunny

Bugs Bunny as Brody's tormenter.
On the Bowery, Lionel Rogosin's 1956 film, was nominated for the
Academy Award for Best Documentary.
In the 2002 film Gangs of New York,
Bowery

Bowery is a mentioned territory of
the
Bowery

Bowery Boys, a street gang of the late 19th century during the New
York Draft Riots.
Art
The
Bowery

Bowery in Two Inadequate Descriptive Systems, a collection of
photographs and poems by Martha Rosler.[49]
"Come Closer: Art Around the Bowery, 1969–1989", "Drawing upon the
New Museum’s
Bowery

Bowery Artist Tribute archive and the online archive of
Marc H. Miller, 98bowery.com, this exhibition features original
artwork, ephemera, and performance documentation by over fifteen
artists who lived and worked on or near [the]
Bowery

Bowery in New York."[50]
Advertising
In the 1960s, radio and television commercials for the
Bowery

Bowery Savings
Bank featured a jingle with the lyrics "The Bowery, The
Bowery

Bowery / The
Bowery

Bowery pays a lot / The
Bowery

Bowery pays you 6% / Commercial banks in New
York simply do not." The number changed according to the amount of
interest available on a passbook savings account offered by the bank.
Wrestling
Professional wrestler Raven is billed as being from the
Bowery

Bowery despite
being born in
Philadelphia

Philadelphia and residing in Atlanta.[51]
See also[edit]
Bowery

Bowery Mission
Bowery

Bowery Theatre
Skid Row

Skid Row Cancer Study
References[edit]
Notes
^
Bowery

Bowery at dictionary.com
^ a b c d e f g Jackson, Kenneth L. "Bowery" in Jackson, Kenneth T.,
ed. (2010), The Encyclopedia of
New York City

New York City (2nd ed.), New Haven:
Yale University Press, ISBN 978-0-300-11465-2 , p.148
^ citidex.com 2006; Fodor's 1991
^ Brown, 1922
^ "Second Avenue Subway: Completed Portions, 1970s".
www.nycsubway.org. Retrieved March 27, 2018.
^ "
Manhattan

Manhattan East Side Transit Alternatives (MESA)/Second Avenue
Subway Summary Report" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
Retrieved March 27, 2018.
^ Sanderson, Eric W. Mannahatta: A Natural History of New york City,
2009, p. 107, illus. "
Lenape

Lenape sites and trails", and Ch. 4 "The
Lenape", passim.
^ In modern Dutch, boerderij
^ Fodor's 2004
^ The relevant section is illustrated in Sanderson 2009, p. 41,
bottom.
^ Smith, Matthew Hale. Sunshine and Shadow in New York, 1869, p.214.
^ Moscow, Henry (1978), The Street Book: An Encyclopedia of
Manhattan's Street Names and Their Origins, New York: Hagstrom,
ISBN 0823212750 ; A highly colored and disapproving panorama
of the dissolute and lively
Bowery

Bowery on a Sunday is offered by Smith
1869, pp. 214–18.
^ Levinson, David ed. (2004). The Encyclopedia of Homelessness, s.v.
"Bowery, The".
^ Chauncey, George (1994)
Gay

Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture and the
Making of the
Gay

Gay Male World, 1890–1940. New York: Basic Books. p.37
ISBN 0465026214
^ Chauncey 1994:33.
^ Frank, Mary and Carr, John Foster, "Exploring a neighborhood", The
Century Magazine 98 (July 1919:378).
^ Frank and Carr 1919:378; the old tavern had been the scene of at
least one violent murder, in 1862 ("The Murder in the Bowery", New
York Times, 4 November 1862 accessed March 14, 2010.
^ The stone marked a mile from City Hall; it was still in evidence in
1909 (Frank Bergen Kelly, Historical Guide to the City of New York
(City History Club of New York), 1909:97.
^ "
Bowery

Bowery Landmark in $170,000 Lease". The New York Times. April 1,
1921. p. 32. Retrieved March 14, 2010.
^ One Mile House by Glenn O. Coleman, 1928 (Whitney Museum of American
Art) epitomizes the scene. A ghostly painted sign on the side of the
building still advertises One Mile House.
^ a b "Business Changes Along Bowery". The New York Times. December
11, 1921. p. 125. Retrieved July 11, 2010. Today, the
gentrified designation "Cooper Square" extends down the
Bowery

Bowery as far
as 4th Street.
^ Giamo, Benedict, On the Bowery: confronting homelessness in American
Society (University of Iowa Press) 1989.
^ Staff (November 21, 1947). "Proposal to Rename
Bowery

Bowery Heard Again;
Something Dignified and Prosaic Wanted". The New York Times.
ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-02-15.
^ Shapiro, Julie. "60 tenants thrown out as Chinatown tenement is
shut". 22.14. Downtown Express.
^ Staff (January 18, 2018) "Breaking: DOB Evacuates Embattled Betesh
Tenants from 85 Bowery"
Bowery

Bowery Boogie
^ Cook, Lauren (February 10, 2018). "Displaced
Bowery

Bowery tenants continue
hunger strike outside HPD". am New York. Retrieved February 15,
2018.
^ Clark, Roger (October 25, 2011). "
Bowery

Bowery Lands Spot On State
Historic Registry". NY1.com. Archived from the original on April 3,
2012. Retrieved October 26, 2011.
^ "
Bowery

Bowery Alliance of Neighbors: 2013
Village Award

Village Award Winner".
GVSHP.org. Retrieved 29 May 2015.
^ "Tiny
Little Saigon

Little Saigon in New York".
^ "Bánh Mì Saigon Bakery".
^ "New Bank Building; Citizens Savings Bank to Erect Monumental
Structure on Bowery". The New York Times. July 2, 1922. p. 84.
Retrieved July 11, 2010.
^ "History of the
Bowery

Bowery Ballroom",
Bowery Ballroom

Bowery Ballroom website (archived
2007)
^ Carlson, Jen (August 14, 2007). "New Venue Alert: Terminal 5".
Gothamist. Archived from the original on February 10, 2010. Retrieved
August 7, 2010.
^ "Houston
Bowery

Bowery Wall" on the Goldman Properties website
^ "Bombed Again at the Houston/
Bowery

Bowery Mural Wall" on the EV Grieve
website
^ "
Bowery

Bowery Houston Mural" on the Arrested Motion website
^ "
Bowery

Bowery Poetry". www.boweryartsandscience.org. Retrieved
2016-08-05.
^ Associated Press (March 30, 2008). "Structures Considered Most
Amazing in World". The News Leader. Retrieved March 30,
2008. [dead link]
^ "
New Museum

New Museum - Digital Archive". www.boweryartisttribute.org.
Retrieved March 27, 2018.
^ "Commentary". The New York Times. August 13, 1904. Retrieved March
5, 2015.
^ "Kildare, Writer, Dead of Paresis: "The Kipling of the Bowery"
Passes Away at the State Hospital on Ward's Island". The New York
Times. February 7, 1911. Retrieved March 5, 2015.
^ Lynn Yaeger. "All Sold Out at CBGB". The Village Voice. Archived
from the original on November 2, 2013.
^ New York Media, LLC (13 January 1997). New York Magazine. New York
Media, LLC. pp. 29–. ISSN 0028-7369. Retrieved 9 June
2013.
^ "He Had the Beat — and Now Has a Street". The Washington Post.
December 7, 2003. Retrieved August 2, 2007. Now there is Joey Ramone
Place.... The sign bearing Ramone's name recently went up on the
corner of 2nd Street and Bowery, near CBGB, the group's musical
home.
^ Gamboa, Glen (August 10, 2005). "The Fold: Battle over punk
birthplace: Rock & rent". Newsday. Retrieved August 2, 2007.
Reminders of the bands who have passed through
CBGB

CBGB remain all around
the club, from the corner of
Bowery

Bowery and 2nd Street—now renamed Joey
Ramone Place—to the countless band names scrawled on the bathroom
walls.
^
Fantastic Four
_cover_art.jpg)
Fantastic Four #4 (1962).
^ On the Bowery, Steve Zeitlin and Marci Reaven, New York Folklore
Society's journal Voices, Vol. 29, Fall-Winter, 2003.
^ Information about the musical (Archived 2009-10-23)[unreliable
source?]
^ "The
Bowery

Bowery in Two Inadequate Descriptive Systems". The
Bowery

Bowery in
Two Inadequate Descriptive Systems. The New Museum.
^ "Come Closer: Art Around the Bowery, 1969–1989". Come Closer: Art
Around the Bowery, 1969–1989. The New Museum.
^ "Raven". WWE.com. WWE. Retrieved February 14, 2015.
Sources
Fodor's flashmaps New York, 1991
Fodor's See It New York City, 2004, ISBN 1-4000-1387-9
Valentine's Manual of Old New York / No. 7, Ed. Henry Collins Brown,
Pub. Valentine's Manual Inc. 1922
Further reading
Bowery

Bowery by Forgotten NY—images, descriptions, and history
East Village History Project
Bowery

Bowery research—in-depth, lot by lot
research
External links[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bowery.
Bowery, from the Little Italy Neighbors Association—stories, photos,
etc.
Bowery

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Bowery

Bowery stores and buildings.
Bowery

Bowery documentary
Historic district
Map of
Bowery

Bowery Historic District
Bowery

Bowery Historic District nomination, National Register of Historic
Places
Organizations
Bowery

Bowery Alliance, a grassroots organization
Bowery

Bowery Artist Tribute
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