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The Bowery Theatre was a playhouse on the Bowery in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City. Although it was founded by rich families to compete with the upscale Park Theatre , the Bowery saw its most successful period under the populist , pro-American management of Thomas Hamblin in the 1830s and 1840s.
Bowery by Forgotten NY – images, descriptions, and history; East Village History Project Bowery research – in-depth, lot by lot research; The Street of Forgotten Men: From Story to Screen and Beyond, 2023, ISBN 979-8-218-209858 (a look at the 1925 film and its relationship to the Bowery and impact on American language and culture)
The Edward Mooney House is a building at 18 Bowery, at the corner of Pell Street, [3] in the Chinatown neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.It was built between 1785 and 1789 for wealthy butcher Edward Mooney on land he purchased after it was confiscated from British Loyalist James De Lancey.
"For years the Bowery Boys and the Dead Rabbits waged a bitter feud, and a week seldom passed in which they did not come to blows, either along the Bowery, in the Five Points section." [ 2 ] Both gangs were primarily brawlers and street fighters, another reason why William Poole was a well-known fighter, and most of their battling was done in ...
Peter Stuyvesant's house on the Great Bowery. Stuyvesant Farm, also known as the Great Bowery, was the estate of Peter Stuyvesant, the last Dutch director-general of the colony of New Netherland, as well as his predecessors and later his familial descendants.
British author John Douglas, from Birmingham, said hats were used as weapons in his novel A Walk Down Summer Lane [8] – members with razor blades sewn into their caps would headbutt enemies to potentially blind them, [9] or the caps would be used to slash foreheads, causing blood to pour down into the eyes of their enemies, temporarily ...
Loose in London is a 1953 American comedy film directed by Edward Bernds and starring The Bowery Boys. The film was released on May 24, 1953, by Allied Artists and is the thirtieth film in the series.
The Houston Bowery Wall, also known simply as the Bowery Wall, is a mural wall owned by Goldman Properties [1] in the East Village and NoHo neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City. The concrete wall, on Houston St and the intersection of the Bowery , had been a popular graffiti spot in the early 1980s, when street artist Keith Haring ...