Cooper Square is a junction of streets in Lower Manhattan in New York City located at the confluence of the neighborhoods of Bowery to the south, NoHo to the west and southwest, Greenwich Village to the west and northwest, the East Village to the north and east, and the Lower East Side to the southeast.
Cooper Square looking uptown in 1957
Cooper Square looking uptown in 2008
The Cooper Union's Foundation Building has anchored the north end of the square since 1859
The monument to Peter Cooper sits between the Foundation Building and the park at Cooper Triangle
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
