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- The Rural Beginnings of The Bowery
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Long before Manhattan became an island of skyscrapers and the Bowery one of its most important downtown arteries, this area of lower Manhattan acted as an important thoroughfare for Indigenous Americans. Tribes called the trail Wickquasgeck, which, according to Curbed, translates as "path to the wading place" or "birch-bark country." It later becam...
A number of factors led to the Bowery's decline in the 19th and 20th centuries. Though it had once hosted elegant theaters, the makeup of the neighborhood changed after the Civil War. Beginning in 1875, the construction of the Third Avenue Elevated railway cast a literal shadow over the Bowery. According to NYCity Media, the El made living in the B...
In the latter half of the 20th century, the Bowery transformed again. Its "otherness" attracted artists like William Burroughs and Mark Rothko in the 1960s. And the opening of the iconic CBGBclub in 1973 turned the Bowery into a punk rock mecca. Soon, it hosted acts like Patti Smith and The Ramones. But the Bowery's edgy, alternative reputation did...
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Jun 14, 2018 · Pictures of Pimps, Prostitutes and Homeless of 1970s Times Square Through a Bartender's Camera June 14, 2018 1970s , 1980s , life & culture , New York , people , portraits , street In 1972 Shelly Nadelman began a ten-year run bartending at one of New York City’s most notorious dives: the Terminal Bar, located across the street from the Port ...
*Make sure to leave a comment, especially if something is missing or wrong. New York City Hoods: Brooklyn. In the the largest and infamous borough view all the legendary communities, from the 90z to 21st Street of Flatbush, Crown Heights’ Brower Park and Franklin Ave, Jay-Z’s and Notorious BIG’s birthplace of Bed Stuy, the birthplace of the WOO and Choo movement in Brownsville, and Pop ...
Apr 16, 2016 · These startling 1970s New York photos reveal a city undergoing an unparalleled transformation fueled by economic collapse and rampant crime. Reeling from a decade of social turmoil, New York in the 1970s fell into a deep tailspin provoked by the flight of the middle class to the suburbs and a nationwide economic recession that hit New York’s industrial sector especially hard.
Jan 4, 2022 · The New York City of the 1970s was practically bankrupt and hemorrhaging population. Subway trains were covered in graffiti, inside and out. Crime was rampant. Women were warned to remove jewelry while walking the streets for fear that their necklaces would be ripped from their necks. Vast areas of the Bronx and Upper Manhattan were torched.
Jan 31, 2012 · January 31, 2012 4:00 AM EST. B rownsville, located in east Brooklyn, has long been one of New York City’s most dangerous neighborhoods. But even as crime rates reached record lows in the ...
