Bowery

A look at the Bowery with the Empire State Building in the background.

Bowery, (commonly called The Bowery) is the name of a street and a small neighborhood in the southern Manhattan. The name comes from the Dutch bouwerij, which is an old word for "farm." The neighborhood is surrounded by the East Village to the north, Canal Street and Chinatown to the South, Allen Street and the Lower East Side to the east and Little Italy to the west. The area was home to many Irish immigrants in the early 19th century after the Great Irish Famine.

Bowery Media

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  Looking north from Grand Street, showing the tracks of the Third Avenue Elevated, c. 1910

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  The Bowery (unmarked), leading to the "Road to Kings Bridge, where the Rebels mean to make a Stand" in a British map of 1776

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

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  Berenice Abbott photograph of a Bowery restaurant in 1935, when the street was lined with flophouses

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  The Bowery Lodge is one of the last remaining flophouses on the Bowery

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  Crowds along the "Bowery at night," c. 1895 painting by William Louis Sonntag, Jr.

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  The author of this image is me, David Shankbone. Taken 6 August 2006. The Bowery Poetry Club on The Bowery, New York City.

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  CBGB club facade, Bowery St, New York City. Photograph by Adam Di Carlo, taken 10/1/2005. Image uploaded to Wikipedia by the author.

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  Steve Brodie's bar at 114 Bowery

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  Sheet Music to The Bowery, 1892