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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bowery \Bow"er*y\, a. Characteristic of the street called the Bowery, in New York city; swaggering; flashy.
Bowery \Bow"er*y\, a. Shading, like a bower; full of bowers.
A bowery maze that shades the purple streams.
--Trumbull.
Bowery \Bow"er*y\, n.; pl. Boweries. [D. bouwerij.] A farm or plantation with its buildings. [U. S. Hist.]
The emigrants [in New York] were scattered on boweries
or plantations; and seeing the evils of this mode of
living widely apart, they were advised, in 1643 and
1646, by the Dutch authorities, to gather into
``villages, towns, and hamlets, as the English were in
the habit of doing.''
--Bancroft.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"farm, plantation," from Dutch bowerij "homestead farm" (from the same source as bower); a Dutch word probably little used in America outside New York, and there soon limited to one road, The Bowery, that ran from the built-up part of the city out to the plantations in middle Manhattan, attested from 1787; the city's growth soon overran it, and it was noted by 1840 as a commercial district notorious for squalor, rowdiness, and low life.\n\nBowery Boy, the typical New York tough of a generation or two ago, named from the street which he chiefly affected .... He rather prided himself on his uncouthness, his ignorance, and his desperado readiness to fight, but he also loved to have attention called to his courage, his gallantry to women, his patriotic enthusiasm, and his innate tenderness of heart. A fire and a thrilling melodrama called out all his energies and emotions.
[Walsh, 1892]
Wiktionary
a. sheltered by trees; leafy; shady. n. (context archaic English) In the early settlements of New York State, USA, a farm or estate.
WordNet
adj. like a bower; leafy and shady; "a bowery lane"
n. a street in Manhattan noted for cheap hotels frequented by homeless derelicts
Wikipedia
The Bowery is a street and neighborhood in the southern portion of the New York City borough of Manhattan. 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, while the neighborhood's boundaries are roughly East 4th Street and the East Village to the north; Canal Street and Chinatown to the south; Allen Street and the Lower East Side to the east; and Little Italy to the west.
In the 17th century, the road branched off Broadway north of Fort Amsterdam at the tip of Manhattan to the homestead of Peter Stuyvesant, Director-General of New Netherland. The street was known as Bowery Lane prior to 1807. "Bowery" is an anglicization of the Dutch bouwerij, derived from an antiquated Dutch word for " farm", as in the 17th century the area contained many large farms.
A New York City Subway station named Bowery, serving the BMT Nassau Street Line , is located close to the Bowery's intersection with Delancey and Kenmare Streets. There is a tunnel under the Bowery once intended for use by proposed but never built New York City Subway services, including the Second Avenue Subway.
Bowery may refer to:
In street names:
- Bowery, (from Dutch bouwerij) a street (and a surrounding neighborhood) in Lower Manhattan, New York City
- Bowery Street, a street on Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York City
In people:
- Jordan Bowery, footballer who plays for Championship club Rotherham United
- Leigh Bowery, a performance artist, club creature, and clothing designer
In popular culture:
- Bowery Amphitheatre, a building on Bowery in New York City
- Bowery Ballroom, a music venue on Delancey Street in New York City
- Bowery Theatre, a playhouse formerly located on Lafayette Street in New York City
- "The Bowery" (song) (1891), music by Percy Gaunt, lyrics by Charles H. Hoyt, from the play A Trip to Chinatown
- Live from the Bowery Ballroom, a live album by Kathleen Edwards
- Operation Bowery, an Anglo-American naval operation of World War II
- The Bowery Electric, a ballad written by Jed Davis
- Bowery Electric, a Manhattan-based dreampop duo
In film:
- The Bowery (film), a 1933 historical film about the Lower East Side of Manhattan at the turn of the century
- On the Bowery, a 1956 documentary film directed by Lionel Rogosin
- The Bowery Boys, a series of movies made by Monogram Pictures from 1946 to 1958
In transportation:
- Bowery (BMT Nassau Street Line), a New York City Subway station on the services of the New York City Subway
In New York City history:
- Bowery Mission, a rescue mission on Bowery in Manhattan, New York City
- Bowery Boys, an anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic gang based north of the Five Points district in Manhattan, New York City
- Bowery Savings Bank, a New York City bank chartered in 1834
In geography:
- Bowery Bay, a bay in New York City
Bowery is a station on the BMT Nassau Street Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Bowery and Delancey Street in the Lower East Side and Bowery neighborhoods, it is served by the J train at all times and the Z train during rush hours in peak direction.
Usage examples of "bowery".
His rapacity, like the trunk of an elephant, with equal skill twists a fortune out of the Broadway widening, and picks up dishonest pennies in the Bowery.
These were the vags, the bums, the wineheads and the wetbrains from the Bowery, the Sneaky Pete drinkers and the Sweet Lucy lovers, the ones who filtered bottles of after-shave lotion down through a loaf of pumpernickel, the ones who drank canned heat and panther sweat, the ones who had left too many pieces of themselves in too many bars for too many years.
We can call your banker a Shylock, my wife a Bowery chippy, President Grant a sot and a spoilsman and do it all with a perfectly comclear conscience.
These children are regular patrons of the Bowery Theatre and the low-class concert halls.
If she had seen this Sibley take more wine than he ought and make a spectacle of himself at a public table, she would no more admit him to her parlor than a Bowery rough.
These were the vags, the bums, the wineheads and the wetbrains from the Bowery, the Sneaky Pete drinkers and the Sweet Lucy lovers, the ones who filtered bottles of after-shave lotion down through a loaf of pumpernickel, the ones who drank canned heat and panther sweat, the ones who had left too many pieces of themselves in too many bars for too many years.
Besides, people looking for rentboys cruised under the West Side Highway or down on the Strip, not up in the Bowery, so he figured his virtue was pretty safe.
We took a coach up the Bowery to the point where it meets Broadway.
It was a far cry from the wealth of Diamond Lane to a dingy Bowery pawnshop, even though pawnbroking at one per cent.
Hat cleaners on the Bowery, restaurants, bars, drug stores, department stores.
Chase Manhattan Bank Jokertown branch, three apartment buildings (one of which was in Harlem), Top Hat cleaners on the Bowery, restaurants, bars, drug stores, department stores.
There, he transferred to the Bowery & Third Avenue elevated railway, paying another twenty cents.
The Mafia mothers still inhabited Little Italy and if I climbed down the five flights of stairs and turned right I could cross the Bowery and find beautiful old women standing in little shops strung with salami.
I'll wait until midnight and then walk through the grim regions of the city: Harlem, Fort Greene, Red Hook, Bed-Stuy, East New York, the Bowery, in and out of the parks, schoolyards, wino bars, through the crooked alleys in Chinatown and along the vacant stretches between the Hudson piers.
From time to time a collegiate-looking type, usually with a date, would emerge from the swinging doors and they would ask him, one by one in a line down that short section of Bowery sidewalk, for a cigarette, subway fare, the price of a beer.