The Bowery is a very well-known street in Manhattan that more or less marks the boundary between Chinatown and Little Italy on one side and the Lower East Side on the other — running from Chatham Square in the south to Astor Place in the north. It is the former location of the road Peter Stuyvesant's farm and takes its name from an old Dutch word for farm, bouwerij (the modern word being boerderij). For other uses, see Manhattan (disambiguation). ... The second-largest Chinatown in North America is in San Francisco, California, where signs, storefronts, proprietors, and even lamp posts bring the culture of China to the United States. ... Mulberry Street looking north from Canal Street, Manhattan, New York City Little Italy is a neighborhood in southern Manhattan, New York City, once known for its population of Italian immigrants. ... Categories: Manhattan neighborhoods | Stub ... The single block of Astor Place that leads to Broadway predates Manhattans grid plan. ... This article or section should be merged with this other (reverted) version Peter Stuyvesant (born 1592 in Scherpenzeel, died 1672) served as the last Dutch director general of the colony of New Netherland before it was turned over to the English. ...

Home of many music halls in the 19th Century, the Bowery later became notable for its economic depression. In the 1920s and 1930s, it was regarded as an impoverished area. The "Dead End Kids" of film were from the Bowery. In the 1940s through the 1970s, the Bowery was New York's "Skid Row," notable for "Bowery Bums" (alcoholics and homeless persons). In the 1960s and 1970s, the Bowery was viewed as a high crime, low rent area. The transformation of CBGB's from folk music to punk rock in 1974 was, at the time, a fitting reflection of the neighborhood. However, since the 1990s the entire Lower East Side has been reviving. Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century Decades: 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s - 1920s - 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s Years: 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 Referred to as the Roaring 20s. ... Events and trends Technology Jet engine invented Science Nuclear fission discovered by Otto Hahn, Lise Meitner and Fritz Strassmann Pluto, the ninth planet from the Sun, is discovered by Clyde Tombaugh British biologist Arthur Tansley coins term ecosystem War, peace and politics Socialists proclaim The death of Capitalism Rise to... The Dead End Kids were six young actors from New York who appeared in Sidney Kingsleys play Dead End in 1935 on Broadway. ... Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century Decades: 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s - 1940s - 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s Years: 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 Events and trends Technology First nuclear bomb First cruise missile, the V1 flying bomb and the first ballistic missile, the... Events and trends Although in the United States and in many other Western societies the 1970s are often seen as a period of transition between the turbulent 1960s and the more conservative 1980s and 1990s, many of the trends that are associated widely with the Sixties, from the Sexual Revolution... Skid Row is also the name of an American Heavy Metal band. ... A homeless man pushes a cart down the street. ... Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s - 1960s - 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s Years: 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 Events and trends The 1960s was a turbulent decade of change around the world. ... Events and trends Although in the United States and in many other Western societies the 1970s are often seen as a period of transition between the turbulent 1960s and the more conservative 1980s and 1990s, many of the trends that are associated widely with the Sixties, from the Sexual Revolution... CBGB, also CBGBs or CBs is a legendary club in the Manhattan Bowery district of New York City, New York. ... Folk music, in the original sense of the term, is music by and of the people. ... Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ... 1974 is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ... Events and trends Technology Explosive growth of the Internet; decrease in the cost of computers and other technology Reduction in size and cost of mobile phones leads to a massive surge in their popularity Year 2000 problem (commonly known as Y2K) Microsoft Windows operating system becomes virtually ubiquitous on IBM...

As of August 2004, gentrification is contributing to ongoing change along the Bowery. In particular, the number of high-rise condominiums is growing. August is the eighth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This once impoverished part of Jersey Citys historic downtown is quickly becoming gentrified. ... J. G. Ballards 1975 novel High-rise, takes place in an ultra-modern, luxury high-rise building. ...

Major streets that intersect the Bowery include Canal Street, Delancey Street (at which corner the subway station named Bowery is situated), Houston Street and Bleecker Street. Canal Street is a major street in New York City, crossing lower Manhattan to join New Jersey in the west (via the Holland Tunnel) to Brooklyn in the east (via the Manhattan Bridge). ... Delancey Street is one of the main thoroughfares of Manhattans Lower East Side, running east from the Bowery to connect to the Williamsburg Bridge to Brooklyn. ... This article describes subways as mass transit lines. ... Houston Street is a large thoroughfare running east - west north of the downtown area of the borough of Manhattan in New York City, one block south of 1st Street. ...

External links

• New York Songlines: 4th Avenue (http://www.nysonglines.com/4av.htm)
• Dave Ranney, or Thirty Years on the Bowery (http://www.gutenberg.net/etext/13889) - autobiography of a Bowery dweller, published in 1910, from Project Gutenberg
• The Bowery at forgotten-ny.com (http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/bowery/bowery.html) - images, descriptions, and history

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