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Bowery

Bowery

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A street in Manhattan, New York City known for cheap hotels and many homeless people
  • proper noun
  • /ˈbaʊəri/
: calle Bowery
  • The Bowery in New York City has long been associated with struggles against poverty and homelessness.

Like there was the Bowery Poetry Club.

Examples

  • Well, I don't want to get mugged on a Bowery street corner.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • Ladies and gentlemen, making her Bowery Ballroom debut, Miss Violet Sanford!

    Coyote Ugly (2000)

  • Go down to the Bowery.

    Scent of a Woman (1992)

  • Meet me in 20 minutes exactly at the corner of Bowery and Houston.

    F/X (1986)

  • I recall being down on the New York Bowery one day.

    Academic text (1995)

  • His band will play at Bowery Electric in Manhattan on October 3rd.

    Blog text (24)

  • I haven't been in the Bowery in years.

    Sweet Smell of Success (1957)

  • Which I take it is why you are here before me in that blue and silver dress on this Bowery sidewalk.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • Wallace looks closer and sees Henry Lee, who stays in step with Wallace as he walks up Bowery.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • The new Wyndham Garden Chinatown at Bowery and Hester Street.

    Blog text (27)

Surface Forms

Bowery main

Etymology

Bowery comes from the old Dutch word bouwerij, meaning 'farm', because the area was once farmland outside the early city. So the street name Bowery is a reminder that this busy Manhattan road used to be fields long ago.