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The Bowery (/ ˈ b aʊər i /) [1] [2] is a street and neighborhood in Lower Manhattan in New York City, United States. 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. [3]
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 .
Writing in H. L. Mencken's American Mercury in 1926, Herbert Asbury pointed out that the street serves no logical purpose, because it is a link between Chatham Square, the Bowery, and Pell Street, which also connects to the Bowery a few feet from Doyers. He called it "a crazy street, and there has never been any excuse for it."
Among the theaters that existed in Chinatown in later years were the Sun Sing Theater under the Manhattan Bridge and the Pagoda Theater, both on the street of East Broadway, the Governor Theater on Chatham Square, the Rosemary Theater on Canal Street across the Manhattan Bridge, as well as the Music Palace on the Bowery, which was the last ...
Bowery between Chatham Square and Cooper Square: The Bowery: One of the most architecturally diverse and historically significant streetscapes in the city; first residence for many immigrant groups. 19: Bowery Savings Bank: Bowery Savings Bank
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.
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.
Chatham Square Mott Street ( Chinese : 勿街 ; Jyutping : Mat6 gaai1 ) is a narrow but busy thoroughfare that runs in a north–south direction in the New York City borough of Manhattan . It is regarded as Chinatown's unofficial " Main Street ".