Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A section of lower Manhattan in New York City. The street that gives the area its name was once the road to Peter Stuyvesant's bouwerij, or farm. The Bowery was once notorious for its saloons, petty criminals, and derelicts.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of the nature of a bower; containing bowers; leafy; shady.
- noun Among the Dutch settlers of New York, a farm; a country-seat; a rural retreat.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Shading, like a bower; full of bowers.
- noun U. S. Hist. A farm or plantation with its buildings.
- adjective Characteristic of the street called the
Bowery , in New York city; swaggering; flashy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun A
street and adistrict ofNew York City , whoseresidents were traditionally of a lowsocial andeconomic class . (usuallythe Bowery .) - adjective US, dated Characteristic of this street; swaggering; flashy.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a street in Manhattan noted for cheap hotels frequented by homeless derelicts
- adjective like a bower; leafy and shady
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Examples
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When the final column of the Third Avenue elevated was torn down, in February 1956, exposing the region to sunlight for the first time in nearly a century, one politician suggested changing the name Bowery, “with its connotation of drunken derelicts and broken dreams.”
The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010
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When the final column of the Third Avenue elevated was torn down, in February 1956, exposing the region to sunlight for the first time in nearly a century, one politician suggested changing the name Bowery, “with its connotation of drunken derelicts and broken dreams.”
The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010
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And Surf Avenue wuz full, and what they called the Bowery of
Samantha at Coney Island and a Thousand Other Islands Marietta Holley 1881
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Liz Christy took to petitioning the city's Housing and Preservation Department to make their newly-created garden - which they called the Bowery Garden - an official community garden.
Energy Bulletin - kristinsponsler 2010
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The Save Coney Island folk have just released a new rendering, showing the Bank of Coney Island as what they call a Bowery Ballroom-style event and music space.
Gothamist Jen Carlson 2010
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On Saturday, Fourth Arts Block, a nonprofit dedicated to promoting the East Fourth Street Cultural District between Second Avenue and the Bowery, is hosting East Village Eats, a tour of some of the area's restaurants.
East Village: Counterculture, Luxury Condos Sushil Cheema 2010
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In 2005, the Avalon supplanted two parking lots, as well as the Church of All Nations (which used to look out over pre-Whole Foods Houston Street) and a tenement building that was the former site of McGurk 's Suicide Hall, perhaps the most infamous dive bar in Bowery history.
Diving Into Downtown Culture Bruce Bennett 2010
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The bulk of the rest of the block between Second Avenue and Bowery is occupied by the Avalon at Bowery Place apartment complex.
Diving Into Downtown Culture Bruce Bennett 2010
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The Bowery is just a New York street, but in those days it was also a community with a culture and rituals and an argot all its own.
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The Bowery is just a New York street, but in those days it was also a community with a culture and rituals and an argot all its own.
April 2008 2008
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