The Bowery: The Strange History of New York's Oldest Street,New

The Bowery: The Strange History of New York's Oldest Street,New

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From peglegged Peter Stuyvesant to CBGBs, the story of the Bowery reflects the history of the city that grew up around it.It was the street your mother warned you abouteven if you lived in San Francisco. Long associated with skid row, saloons, freak shows, violence, and vice, the Bowery often showed the worst New York City had to offer. Yet there were times when it showed its best as well.The Bowery is New Yorks oldest street and Manhattans broadest boulevard. Like the city itself, it has continually reinvented itself over the centuries. Named for the Dutch farms, or bouweries, of the area, the paths lurid character was established early when it became the site of New Amsterdams first murder. A natural spring near the Five Points neighborhood led to breweries and taverns that became home to the gangs of New Yorkthe Bowery Bhoys, Plug Uglies, and Dead Rabbits. In the Gaslight Era, teenaged streetwalkers swallowed poison in McGurks Suicide Hall.A brighter side to the street was reflected in places of amusement and culture over the years. A young P.T. Barnum got his start there, and Harry Houdini learned showmanship playing the music halls and dime museums. Poets, singers, hobos, gangsters, soldiers, travelers, preachers, storytellers, conmen, and reformers all gathered there. Its colorful cast of characters includes Peter Stuyvesant, Steve Brodie, Carry Nation, Stephen Foster, Stephen Crane, and even Abraham Lincoln.The Bowery: The Strange History of New Yorks Oldest Street traces the full story of this once notorious thoroughfare from its precolonial origins to the present day.

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