Bowery
Sign in to savethumb|right|332px|Looking north from Grand Street (Manhattan)|Grand Street, showing the tracks of the Third Avenue Elevated, The Bowery () is a street and neighborhood in Lower Manhattan in New York City, New York. The street runs from Chatham Square at Park Row, Worth Street, and Mott Street in the south to Cooper Square at 4th Street in the north. The eponymous neighborhood runs roughly from the Bowery east to Allen Street and First Avenue, and from Canal Street north to Cooper Square/East Fourth Street. The neighborhood roughly overlaps with Little Australia. To the south is Chinatown, to
Key facts
- Street.name
- The Bowery
- Street.image
- Bowery, looking north from Houston Street.jpg
- Street.image_size
- 325px
- Street.caption
- Looking north from Houston Street
- Street.former_names
- Bowery Lane (prior to 1807)
- Street.length_km
- 1.6
- Street.direction_a
- South
- Street.terminus_a
- Chatham Square
- Street.direction_b
- North
- Street.terminus_b
- East 4th Street (continues as Cooper Square)
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- Bowery, looking north from Houston Street.jpg
- Dialing code
- 212
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34 sectionsContents
- History
- Colonial and Federal periods
- Early growth
- Economic decline
- Revival and gentrification
- Areas
- Upper and Lower Bowery
- Bowery Historic District
- Little Saigon
- Notable places
- Amato Opera
- Bank buildings
- Bowery Ballroom
- Bowery Mural
- Bowery Poetry
- Bowery Theatre
- CBGB
- Miner's Bowery Theatre
- New Museum
- Notable people
- In popular culture
- Literature
- Music
- Stage
- Film and television
- Art
- Advertising
- Wrestling
- Podcasting
- See also
- References
- External links
- Historic district
- Organizations
thumb|right|332px|Looking north from Grand Street (Manhattan)|Grand Street, showing the tracks of the Third Avenue Elevated, The Bowery () is a street and neighborhood in Lower Manhattan in New York City, New York. The street runs from Chatham Square at Park Row, Worth Street, and Mott Street in the south to Cooper Square at 4th Street in the north. The eponymous neighborhood runs roughly from the Bowery east to Allen Street and First Avenue, and from Canal Street north to Cooper Square/East Fourth Street. The neighborhood roughly overlaps with Little Australia. To the south is Chinatown, to the east are the Lower East Side and the East Village, and to the west are Little Italy and NoHo. It has historically been considered a part of the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
In the 17th century, the road branched off Broadway north of Fort Amsterdam at the tip of Manhattan to the homestead of Peter Stuyvesant, director-general of New Netherland. The street was known as Bowery Lane prior to 1807. "Bowery" is an anglicization of the Dutch , derived from an antiquated Dutch word for "farm": In the 17th century the area contained many large farms.