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The Bowery began to rival Fifth Avenue as an address. [3] When Lafayette Street was opened parallel to the Bowery in the 1820s, the Bowery Theatre was founded by rich families on the site of the Red Bull Tavern, which had been purchased by Andrew Morris and John Jacob Astor; it opened in 1826 and was the largest auditorium in North America at ...
Map of Manhattan from Maps of Farms Commonly Called the Blue Book by Otto Sackersdorff, updated in 1868. The property was inherited in Stuyvesant family, sometimes with new land acquisitions. [9] [10] The family continued to hold slaves into the early 19th century. [11]
Five Points (or The Five Points) was a 19th-century neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York City.The neighborhood, partly built on low-lying land which had filled in the freshwater lake known as the Collect Pond, was generally defined as being bound by Centre Street to the west, the Bowery to the east, Canal Street to the north, and Park Row to the south.
This is a list of neighborhoods in the New York City borough of Manhattan arranged geographically from the north of the island to the south. The following approximate definitions are used: Upper Manhattan is the area above 96th Street. Midtown Manhattan is the area between 34th Street and 59th Street. Lower Manhattan is the area below 14th Street.
St. Mark's Historic District is a historic district located in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.The district was designated a city landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1969, and it was extended in 1984 to include two more buildings on East 10th Street.
Chatham Square is a major intersection in Chinatown, Manhattan, New York City. The square lies at the confluence of eight streets: the Bowery, Doyers Street, East Broadway, St. James Place, Mott Street, Oliver Street, Worth Street and Park Row. The small park in the center of the square is known as Kimlau Square [1] and Lin Ze Xu Square. [2]
The Bowery station is a station on the BMT Nassau Street Line of the New York City Subway.Located at the intersection of Bowery and Delancey Street in the Lower East Side and Little Italy neighborhoods, it is served by the J train at all times and the Z train during rush hours in the peak direction.
The Atlantic Garden was a beer garden and music hall established by William Kramer in 1858 at what is now 50 Bowery in the Chinatown neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. It was next to the Bowery Theatre, on the site of the Bull's Head Tavern (formerly headquarters for New York's cattle market) and the New York Hotel. [1]