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Intro; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: The Great Bouwerie; Chapter 2: Taverns and Tea Water; Chapter 3: Bowery Bunker Hill; Chapter 4: Pleasure Gardens; Chapter 5: Humbug; Chapter 6: The Mighty Mose; Chapter 7: Dead Rabbits and Plug Uglies; Chapter 8: Dear Friends and Gentle Hearts; Chapter 9: Women in Tights; Chapter 10: Suicide Hall; Chapter 11: Living Curiosities; Chapter 12: The Mayor of the Bowery; Chapter 13: Nickel Kickers; Chapter 14: I'll Never Go There Anymore; Chapter 15: Boulevard of the Forgotten; Chapter 16: Sneaky Pete; Chapter 17: Operation Bowery;"It was the street your mother warned you about--even 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 York's oldest street and Manhattan's 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 path's lurid character was established early when it became the site of New Amsterdam's first murder. A natural spring near

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Author

DeVillo, Stephen Paul

Publisher

Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781510726864

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Travel, Sociology