14 Facts About Bowery

Bowery is a street and neighborhood in Lower Manhattan in New York City.

New York City Subway's Bowery station, serving the BMT Nassau Street Line, is located close to the Bowery's intersection with Delancey and Kenmare Streets.

Bowery is the oldest thoroughfare on Manhattan Island, preceding European intervention as a Lenape footpath, which spanned roughly the entire length of the island, from north to south.

Bowery's 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.

Across the way the Bowery Amphitheatre was erected in 1833, specializing in the more populist entertainments of equestrian shows and circuses.

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

From 1878 to 1955 the Third Avenue El ran above the Bowery, further darkening its streets, populated largely by men.

Vagrant population of the Bowery declined after the 1970s, in part because of the city's effort to disperse it.

Avalon Bowery Place was quickly followed with the development of Avalon Bowery Place II.

Bowery Savings Bank was chartered in May 1834, when the Bowery was an upscale residential street, and grew with the rising prosperity of the city.

Bowery Mural is an outdoor exhibition space located on the corner of Houston Street and the Bowery, on a wall owned by Goldman Properties since 1984.

Bowery Poetry is a performance space at Bowery and Bleecker Street.

Miner's Bowery Theatre was a vaudeville or variety show theater opened by Senator Henry Clay Miner in 1878.

The museum has an ongoing Bowery Project honoring artists who lived on the Bowery with taped interviews and archived records.