The Bowery 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. The eponymous neighborhood runs roughly from the Bowery east to Allen Street and First Avenue, and from Canal Street north to Cooper Square/East Fourth Street. The neighborhood roughly overlaps with Little Australia. To the south is Chinatown, to the east are the Lower East Side and the East Village, and to the west are Little Italy and NoHo. It has historically been considered a part of the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
Looking north from Houston Street
Looking north from Grand Street, showing the tracks of the Third Avenue Elevated, c. 1910
The Bull's Head Tavern in the Bowery, 1801 – c. 1860
Berenice Abbott photograph of a Bowery restaurant in 1935, when the street was lined with flophouses
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. The small park in the center of the square is known as Kimlau Square and Lin Ze Xu Square.
Kimlau Square, a park located in Chatham Square; on left is Oliver Street; on right is St. James Place; the statue is Lin Zexu
Chatham Square in 1905
The Chatham Square Branch of the New York Public Library
The Kimlau Memorial Arch honors those of Chinese ancestry who fought and died for the United States
