The Bowery has a fascinating history in NYC. My experience in the Bowery initially was as a volunteer at the Bowery Mission. I also shop at the Whole Foods in the area. Or I go with my husband as he shops. Now there are many restaurants and clubs that once housed the homeless. At forgotten NY the Bowery’s history is documented. In the 1940s through the 1970s, the Bowery was New York City’s «Skid Row,» notable for a large concentration of the city’s homeless. The Bowery is home to the famous Bowery Mission. The Bowery has been expeirencing a gentrification along with the entire lower East Side of Manhattan and specifically the Bowery starting 2005. The area in my opinion has had the most amazing transformation of any NYC neighborhood in my life time! It is hardly recognizable as the same place any more. This area needed it even though there are always protests against the gentrification. Some believe the goal is really ethnic cleansing. I hope that is not the case. But I have to say it does seem to be the case in Red Hook Brookyn. I personally think this area needed it. However I am also hoping with the gentrification the Bowery Mission is not pushed out of the neighborhood. As some have suffered with the gentrification. The Bowery from Houston to Delancey Streets serves as New York’s principal market for restaurant equipment, and from Delancey to Grand for lamps. The Bowery is home to the Bowery poetry club. bowerypoetry.com/ The Bowery has been noted in many movies and TV shows such as__________ Mentioned in the film The Basketball Diaries by Leonardo DiCaprio In the 2002 film Gangs of New York, the Bowery is a mentioned territory of the Bowery Boys, a street gang of the late 19th century, The Bowery, a 1933 film about Brodie A popular B-movie series made between 1946 – 1958 featured«The Bowery Boys. In the 1949 Looney Tunes short«Bowery Bugs», Bugs Bunny tells an old man an imaginative story about a gambler named Steve Brody who jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge in 1886. The sailors are headed across the Brooklyn Bridge and to the Bowery to get tattooed. On the Bowery, Lionel Rogosin’s 1956 film, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary. Mentioned many times in the original TV series Kojak(1973). The Bowery is home to the famous CBGB’s.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBGB The club closed in October 2006. The Bowery was home to the famous Amato opera until it closed in 2009. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amato_Opera The Bowery is home to the Bowery Ballroom which reopened in 1997 it was built in 1929. And of course the famous Bowery Boys. Even though I am 48 The Bowery Boys came on TV on a regular basis when I was a child. I had no idea at the time there was an actual Bowery Boys. I thought it was just entertainment. Then there is the adventurous Bowery hotel. It opened in 2007 and was an adventurous undertaking at the time. It is a fascinating area with a fascinating history.
