As far as we can tell, CBGB is little more than a series of letters appearing on t-shirts in suburban malls. Apparently it was a rock club once, right? Well, anyway, now that three Ramones are dead and David Byrne is busy with White House Correspondents dinner bashes and whatnot, it’s time to focus Read More
Last week it was revealed that a new boutique hotel would replace a Salvation Army shelter on the Bowery, driving the final slender, glassy nail into the old, down-and-out Bowery’s coffin.
Today, the deal with the French Louzon Group to buy the site was finalized, and with it new renderings for the project were Read More
Once the site of flophouses, pawnshops and dive bars, the Bowery is fast becoming a headquarters for contemporary art and architecture. The New Museum’s critically acclaimed opening there three years ago ushered in what its director, Lisa Phillips, rightfully dubs a “Bowery Renaissance.” The area takes another step up with the Sept. 22 Read More
Five months after the Department of Buildings approved a proposal for renovation at 135 Bowery, building owner Ricky Wong received an unwelcome letter from the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission.
The LPC wanted to designate his small, three-story building, a specimen of the early 19th-century Federal style, as a city landmark. Such a ruling would likely Read More
The disreputable ghosts of Boweries past-the gangsters, vagabonds and punk rockers who saw the street shape—shift over the past century and a half—likely have more in common with each other than with the citizens of the Bowery lately. The last few years’ barrage of the new (new luxury condos, new cuisine, the boxy Read More
The way Doris Diether tells it, she was the last holdout in her Waverly Place building a few years back, when the landlord moved in someone new to intimidate her.
“Every time he’d go by me, he growled. Then one night he banged on my door and said, ‘If you think you’re getting any Read More
City Councilman Alan Gerson was giving a short speech about the bad things that might happen if the east side of the Bowery were left up for grabs.
“It will fall victim to monolithic, high rise, luxury– either commercial or residential—space,” he said, to a roughly 50-person crowd gathered at M.S. 131 on Read More
City Councilman Alan Gerson was giving a short speech about the bad things that might happen if the east side of the Bowery were left up for grabs.
“It will fall victim to monolithic, high rise, luxury– either commercial or residential—space,” he said, to a roughly 50-person crowd gathered at M.S. 131 on Tuesday Read More
When Roberta Degnore moved to the Bowery some 30 years ago, there were no ritzy hotels, expensive condos, or Whole Foods; no moms with baby carriages or yuppies walking their dogs.
But there were plenty of prostitutes turning tricks on the corner and bums who would use her doorstep as a Read More
Of all the new wine bars that have opened in Manhattan in recent months—a record 11 of them during the last Zagat survey alone—Bowery Wine Company at 13 East First Street has perhaps attracted the most vocal following.
“Die yuppie scum!” chanted protesters outside the small sipping spot last Friday night; Read More
