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May 01 2017

Big Tim Sullivan Talk on May 24

FLYER 4 Big Tim event PDF


Big Tim Sullivan

Bowery Alliance of Neighbors & Grace Church High School present:

“Big Tim” Sullivan:

King of the Bowery

An illustrated talk by

Alice Sparberg Alexiou

Born to Irish immigrants and raised in the Five Points ghetto, Timothy Sullivan began working at age 8. Enriched by saloons, theatres, and gambling, he became a Tammany political boss who controlled everything below 14th Street from the 1880s until death in 1913, serving as state assemblyman and U.S. congressman. Adored by Lower East Siders, he gave out shoes to the needy and helped mothers bail sons out of jail or pay off landlords to avoid eviction. The “King of the Bowery” lived at the Occidental Hotel (now SoHotel) at 146 Bowery and kept a clubhouse at 207 Bowery. Remembered as a colorful, quintessentially corrupt politician, he supported labor and women’s rights, and pushed America’s first gun control law through the New York legislature.

In 1913, The New York Times reported that 75,000 lined the Bowery for his funeral cortege.

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When: May 24, 2017 (Wed) 6:30pm
Where: Grace Church High School 46 Cooper Square
(Btwn Astor Place & 4th St.)

Free admission!

A Lower East Side History Month event

Transportation: 6 train to Astor Place / R, N to 8th Street, F to Broadway-Lafayette or 2nd Ave.
Info:

631-901-5435

mulbd@yahoo.com

Written by onno · Categorized: Events, News

Oct 24 2016

The Bowery: Past, Present & Future Lecture

PosterDisplay

SPONSORS: Bowery Alliance of Neighbors, Arts Loisaida, Foundation and Ottendorfer Library.

PLACE: Ottendorfer Library 135 2nd Ave near 2nd Ave.

DATE: October 29th (Sat) 2:00-4:00pm

Originally a Native American trail and Dutch farm road, the Bowery is NYC’s oldest thoroughfare, with links to tap dance, vaudeville, Yiddish theater, Abstract Expressionism, Beat literature, and punk rock. Despite its NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES listing, it is one of America’s most endangered streets.

This lecture accompanies Ottendorfer’s current exhibition and is presented by Onno de Jong (artist) and David Mulkins (educator).

The lecture is part of an Exhibition at the Ottendorfer Library.

Written by onno · Categorized: Events, News

Jun 29 2016

NY Designated Landmarks & Historic District (Protected)

Landmarked Buildings bank clock on the Bowery

18 Bowery: Landmarked in 1966!

Landmarked Buildings on the Bowery
Built: circa 1785

Built: circa 1785
Architect: Unknown Style: Georgian

Mooney House was built for Edward Mooney, prominent in the local butchering trade of the period. This NR-listed NYC Landmark is considered the oldest extant brick townhouse in New York. Three-and­ a-half-story rowhouse, restored to reflect its original period of construction. Flemish bond brickwork. Nos. 14 and 76 Bowery are similar but altered versions of this type and period.
— National Register of Historic Places

Bowery's citizens on the Bowery

Legendary Bowery Boy Chuck Connors the self-described “Mayor of Chinatown”, lived here and made headquarters at Barney Flynn’s roughneck saloon downstairs. His staged-to-shock tours of Bowery and Chinatown started here.

According to songwriter Irving Berlin, it was Connors who walked him up Pell Street and helped get him a singing waiter job at the Pelham Café. Berlin wrote his first song there.

[Connors is seen on the right]

54-58 Bowery — CITIZENS SAVINGS BANK: Landmarked in 2011!

Landmarked Savings Bank
 on the Bowery

Built: 1922-24
Architect: Clarence W. Brazer
Style: Beaux Arts

The Citizens Savings Bank is a fine example of the Beaux-Arts style bank building of the late 19th and early 20th century. Brazer’s restrained interpretation of classical precedents conveyed a sense of financial strength and stability while not overwhelming the bank’s depositors. Four monumental arched windows (one now infilled) provided natural light to the banking room.

The street facades have Renaissanceinspired rusticated bases above which the windows are enframed by paired pilasters supporting an entablature in the Roman Doric order. Above the banking room an octagonal clerestory surmounted by the bank’s signature dome (reroofed in aluminum) denotes the transition from public to private space.

Landmarked Savings Bank interior on the Bowery

To further identify the building and its purpose, the cornice of the Bowery facade is adorned with stone sculptures by Charles Keck that were drawn from elements found in the Citizens Savings Bank seal. The central grouping, a wreathed clock with an eagle and seated figures of a Native American and a sailor, and beehives, the traditional symbols of thrift, were intended to be easily visible to commuters on the Third Avenue El (now demolished) and travelers on the Manhattan Bridge. Due to its prominent location, height, massing, and design, the Citizens Savings Bank, now a branch of HSBC, remains a visual anchor for commuters and the surrounding community. –Landmarks Preservation Commission, Aug. 9, 2011

indian-clock on the Bowery

97 BOWERY: Landmarked in 2010!

Landmarked Buildings on the Bowery

Built: 1869
Architect: Peter L.P. Tostevin Style: Italianate

The 97 Bowery Building is a five-story, 25-footwide, early Italianate style, significantly intact, cast-ironfronted store-and-loft building. Built in 1869 for John P. Jube and designed by architect Peter L.P. Tostevin, the building was occupied until 1935 by John P. Jube & Co., a hardware and carriage supply business. 97 Bowery was built in a time when the Bowery was the major thoroughfare through the Lower East Side and a major commercial street with specialty shops, drygoods stores and fancy hardware businesses. The 97 Bowery Building is typical of commercial cast-iron construction during the 1850s and 1860s; and it is likely that various elements of the design were selected from a catalogue of standardized cast-iron components. Notable design elements include the Corinthian columns supporting arches as well as a classical cornice with a segmental arched pediment and acanthus modillions and studs, and spandrels similar in design to the spandrels of the former McCreery’s Dry Goods Emporium at 801 Broadway (cast by J.B. & W.W. Cornell Ironworks). The design features of 97 Bowery are similar to several other significant cast-iron buildings, such as the “Thomas Twins” at 317 Broadway (demolished) and 319 Broadway (1869, David & John Jardine), and the Haughwout building (1856, John P. Gaynor). Today, 97 Bowery remains an important reminder of the Bowery’s commercial emergence after the Civil War, and is a rare example of cast-iron architecture in this particular area of the city.
— Landmarks Preservation Commission, 2010

124-126 BOWERY — BOWERY BANK: Landmarked in 2012!

Landmarked 124-126 Bowery bank on the Bowery
Photo by Edmund V. Grillon Courtesy MCNY

Bowery Bank, 124-126 Bowery, 1975

BUILT: 1901
ARCHITECT: YORK & SAWYWER
STYLE: BEAUX ARTS

This Beaux Arts former bank in the French Renaissance mode was designed in 1901 by the prominent architectural firm of York and Sawyer as a neighbor to the grand Beaux Arts Bowery Savings Bank, which flanks this corner on both the Bowery and Grand Street facades. The former Bowery Bank building (not to be confused with the Bowery Savings Bank) features highly ornamented Renaissance facades with large tripartite window openings capped by pediments with acroterion returns and embellished with carved shells, triglyphs, and guttae. The windows have cast iron fluted columns and pierced iron railings suggesting balconies. A copper cornice has acanthus leaf motifs and heavy scroll brackets.

Landmarked 124-126 Bowery bank on the Bowery

A copper cornice has acanthus leaf motifs and heavy scroll brackets.

130 Bowery:Landmarked in 1966!

Landmarked 124-126 Bowery bank closeup on the Bowery

Built: 1894
Architect: Stanford White of McKim, Mead & White
Style: Classical Revival

Its Imperial Roman temple front became the standard for civic buildings in the United States.— Samuel G. and Elizabeth White, McKim, Mead, and White: The Masterworks

The Bowery Savings Bank was designed in 1894 by Stanford White of the famed architectural firm McKim, Mead & White. This monumental Classical Revival bank is one of the first buildings to herald the new classicism popularized by Chicago’s 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition. Unable to secure the adjacent corner lot on Grand St., it was designed L-shaped fashion, with ornate entrances on both streets.

The Indiana Limestone and granite bank features a neo-Roman temple frontage on Bowery with massive Corinthian columns and a triumphal arch with a deep, coffered barrel vault. The central pediment’s clock is flanked by reclining classical figures and lions. The Grand Street façade has a sculpted pediment raised on Corinthian columns. Pediment sculptures are by Frederick MacMonnies., the Beaux Art sculptor used by White for many of his buildings.
The exterior and interior designated NYC landmark is now Capitale, an event venue.
— Mitchell Grubler, Chair, Landmarks Committee, Bowery Alliance of Neighbors, Written for Windows on the Bowery, a 2016 historic signage project

190 Bowery – Germania Bank Building: Landmarked in 2005!

Landmarked 190 Bowery Germania Bank Building on the Bowery

Germania Bank Building

The granite and brick building features rusticated stonework, a chamfered corner with an arched entry flanked by Tuscan columns, and multi-story pilasters.

Built: 1898-1899
Architect: Robert Maynicke Style: Beaux Arts

The former Germania Bank building is an impressive Beaux Arts-style structure prominently located on the northwest corner of the Bowery and Spring Street. Built in 1898-99 to the designs of architect Robert Maynicke, it was the third home of the Germania Bank, which was established in 1869 by a group of local businessmen of German extraction. By 1840, more than 24,000 German immigrants and their descendents were living in New York City. Their numbers increased dramatically over the next two decades, resulting in the development of the area along and to the east of the Bowery above Division Street as a German neighborhood called Kleindeutschland, or Little Germany. The neighborhood became the major German-American center in the United States during the second half of the nineteenth century. German immigrants contributed greatly to New York City by establishing churches, synagogues, and other cultural organizations, as well as creating their own banking, savings, and loan institutions, such as the Germania Bank. They also opened architectural firms and construction companies. Architect Robert Maynicke, who was of German birth, attended Cooper Union, about ten blocks to the north of this building, and worked for the noted architect George B. Post before co-founding the firm Maynicke & Franke in 1895. The Germania Bank building is considered to be one of his most important designs. Marc Eidlitz, whose construction company built the bank, was also of German descent. The granite and brick building features rusticated stonework, a chamfered corner with an arched entry flanked by Tuscan columns, and multi-story pilasters. The ground floor features large arched openings with voussoirs surmounted a massive denticulated cornice. A similar cornice terminates the fifth story. The top story features paired arched openings also surrounded with voussoirs and concludes in an elaborate copper cheneau. The building’s facades are remarkably intact.

222-224 Bowery: Landmarked in 1998!

Landmarked Buildings on the Bowery

Young Men’s Institute Building (Young Men’s Christian Association)

Built: 1884-1885
Architect: Bradford L. Gilbert
Style: Queen Anne

This 1884-1885 building, the first branch erected by the New York City YMCA Board of Directors, is the sole survivor of New York’s nineteenth-century YMCA branches and the major surviving NYC work of architect Bradford L. Gilbert. This building originally housed the Young Men’s Institute, a membership
organization intended to promote the physical, intellectual, and spiritual health of young working men in the densely crowded Bowery. The five-story Queen Anne style building has a largely intact façade, which is asymmetrically organized with a recessed entry at the south bay; a rusticated sandstone base with segmental arches; a mid-section featuring giant pilasters framing a double-story arcade with recessed metal-enframed windows; and a top section crowned by a slate-covered mansard roof pierced by two dormers. The larger dormer has a pediment with terra-cotta decoration surrounding the commencement date, 1884. In 1915, the firm of Parish & Schroeder renovated the three lower stories at the rear for an enlarged gymnasium, new shower and locker room, and a swimming pool.

The YMCA left the building in 1932, and it has since become studio/residential space for artists, many of whom are world renowned, and it houses a teaching and meditation center for a community of Tibetan Buddhists.
— Landmarks Preservation Commission, 1998

famous people at the YMCA

Artists in residence: Mark Rothko, William Burroughs, John Giorno

227 BOWERY — BOWERY MISSION: Landmarked in 2012!

Landmarked Buildings on the Bowery

BUILT 1876;
ALTERATIONS 1908-09; RENOVATIONS 2001
ARCHITECT: UNKNOWN; MARSHAL L. & HENRY C. EMERY; DIFFENDALE & KUBEC
STYLE: NEO-GREC/TUDOR REVIVAL & COLONIAL REVIVAL ALTERATIONS

This 1876, five-story, red-brick, Neo-Grec, former coffin factory, designed by architect William Jose, has housed the Bowery Mission since 1909. Previously located at 105 Bowery, a disastrous fire in 1898 motivated the Mission to create a building that was as fireproof as possible. Alterations of 1908-1909 by Marshall L. & Henry G. Emery ensured that all the wood of the chapel was covered up to the ceiling and all the door and window casements were covered with metal. The floors were steel and concrete with tile coverings. Dedicated on November 7, 1909, the new chapel features light colored walls embellished with verses and a high vaulted ceiling. Dominating the Tudor-Revival façade, designed by Henry G. Emery in 1908-09 to suggest a welcoming English inn, is a wide bay projecting above the arched entrance and containing four stained-glass windows illustrating the parable of the Return of the Prodigal Son. The design of these windows, that light the chapel, is attributed to Benjamin Sellers, who trained at the Tiffany Studios. A 2001 renovation by architects Diffendale & Kubec included restoration of the interior of the Gothic Revival chapel. The intricate 26-foot-high truss ceiling was repainted, men living at the mission refinished the pews and the stained-glass windows were restored by Shenandoah, Inc.

The Bowery Mission, opened by Reverend and Mrs. A.G. Ruliffson at 36 Bowery in 1879, is the third rescue mission established in America. In 1909, the year the mission opened at 227 Bowery, President William Howard Taft made a nighttime visit to the mission, entering through a rear door in Freeman Alley where the breadline formed. He gave a rousing talk in the chapel to an enthusiastic crowd that spilled out to the street. Franny Crosby, the blind poet and hymn writer who is credited with composing more than 9,000 sacred songs during her lifetime—including “The Rescue Band,” celebrating the mission movement — wrote and sang hundreds of her hymns at the Bowery Mission.

330 Bowery: Landmarked in 1967!

Landmarked Lane Theatre Buildings on the Bowery

Bouwerie Lane Theatre Building (aka Bond Street Savings Bank)

Built: 1874
Architect: Henry Engelbert
Style: Italianate

The Bond Street Savings Bank, completed in 1874, became the German Exchange Bank by 1879, catering to the growing German population in this area, which became known as Kleindeutschland (Little Germany). Although the facades of this Italianate style building are all cast-iron, the intended impression is of a great stone structure with Ionic columns, ornamental pediments, corners braced by quoining and cornices on every floor.

In 1963, Honey Waldman and Bruce Becker converted the bank into the Bouwerie Lane Theatre, opening with Frank Langella in Andre Gide’s The Immoralist.  Later productions included The Palm Casino Review, with members of the Cockettes, and Dames at Sea, which made Bernadette Peters a star.   

From 1974 to 2006, this was home to the Obie Award-winning Jean Cocteau Repertory Company, whose over 200 productions included premieres of the Bentley/Milhaud version of Brecht’s Mother Courage and Something Cloudy, Something Clear, Tennessee Williams’ last play to premiere in NYC during his lifetime.

A NYC Landmark, in 2007 it was converted to retail spaces and condominiums.
— Mitchell Grubler, Landmarks Committee Chair, Bowery Alliance of Neighbors Written for Windows on the Bowery, a 2016 historic signage project.

Landmarked Lane Theatre Buildings on the Bowery

The Bouwerie Lane Theatre productions included The Palm Casino Review, with members of the Cockettes.

357 Bowery – Germania Fire Insurance Building: Landmarked in 2010!

Landmarked 357 Bowery Germania Fire Insurance Building on the Bowery

Built: 1870
Architect: Carl Pfeiffer
Style: Second Empire

Designed by a prominent German-American architect and built in 1870, the Germania Fire Insurance Company Bowery Building recalls the time when the Bowery was a major thoroughfare of America’s leading German-American neighborhood. Known as Kleindeutschland, this neighborhood was home to hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers of German descent, and was “in fullest bloom” when this building opened. The Germania Fire Insurance Company was founded in 1859, counting many prominent German-born New Yorkers among its executives and directors; the firm was prospering when it constructed this building to house its Kleindeutschland office, although it moved this office farther up the Bowery after little more than a decade. The building housed tenants from the time of its opening, and by 1880, its residents included Irish, German, andChinese immigrants. Between 1900 and 1920, industrial tenants displaced its residents, and in 1929, the building was purchased by members of two families who manufactured barber-shop and beauty-parlor equipment in the building into the early 1970s. Residents started returning by the mid-1970s, and today, the building is entirely residential.

The architect of the Germania Bowery Building, Carl Pfeiffer, studied architecture andengineering in Germany and emigrated to the United States in 1863. He completed many prominent commissions for hospitals, churches, and private residences, and designed one of the city’s earliest cooperative apartment buildings, which was constructed by a company he organized. Pfeiffer’s design for the Germania building was inspired by the grand office buildings then being constructed by the nation’s insurance companies, featuring a high basement and imitation mansard roof with dormer, as well as a cast-iron storefront. Well-preserved after 140 years, the Germania Fire Insurance Company Bowery Building remains a significant survivor from the 19th-century Bowery and the days when Kleindeutschland “was at its peak, glorying in its status as the capital of German America.”
— Landmarks Preservation Commission, March 23, 2010

Cooper Union Foundation Building: Landmarked in 1966!

Built: 1853-7
Architect: Frederick A. Peterson Style: Anglo-Italianate

Landmarked Buildings on the Bowery
Cooper Union Foundation Building, Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
Landmarked Buildings on the Bowery
Cooper Square
Landmarked Buildings on the Bowery
The Great Hall, Cooper Union

59-61 Cooper Square – Metropolitan Savings Bank: Landmarked in 1969!

Built: 1867
Architect: Carl Pfeiffer Style: French Second Empire

Landmarked Buildings on the Bowery
First Ukrainian Assembly of God

THE NOHO HISTORIC DISTRICT

Most of west Bowery above Houston is protected by the North of Houston Historic District, including west side of Cooper Square.

Landmarked Buildings on the Bowery
Landmarked Buildings on the Bowery
Landmarked Buildings on the Bowery

Written by onno · Categorized: Preservation

Jun 24 2016

Film

Onno,
The numbers are just for your convenience, so that
any images, text and the audio/visual doc itself all
share the same #.

BTW – please insert this new sub-category under the RESOURCES drop-down menu: FILM

Audio / Visual docs for website

#1—SONG–“Bowery Buck” 1899 by Tom Turpin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WW_ucTesgiI
Tom Turpin (1871-1922) was known as the “Father of St. Louis Ragtime.” In 1897, his popular “Harlem Rag” made Turpin the first African American to have rag composition published.
WHERE TO PLACE LINK:
*HISTORY
–Historical/Cultural Significance of Bowery – under Music
*RESOURCES
–under SONGS

#2—FILM–“This Is the Bowery” 1941 10 minutes Director: Gunther V. Fritsch
A beautifully rendered film portrait of the Bowery Mission, produced by the award-winning
MGM shorts series John Nesbitt’s Passing Parade.
PHOTOS:
2a—Bowery Mission buildings at 227-229 Bowery, 2015
2b—Pamplet [no caption needed] Bowery Mission Archives
2c—Serving coffee at the Bowery Mission, circa 1940s Bowery Mission Archives
WHERE TO PLACE LINK:
*HISTORY
–Historical/Cultural Significance of Bowery – under Religion / Philanthropy
*WINDOWS ON THE BOWERY – #40 – The Bowery Mission piece

#3—FILM–“Nick and Tony in Sightseeing in New York” 1931
10 minutes
Produced by Amity Pictures With humorist tour guides Nick Basil and Tony Martin
A humorous horse and buggy tour through Bowery, Chinatown, Little Italy, etc.
Courtesy Ron Hutchinson and the Vitaphone Project.
PHOTOS
3a—Ad for Chuck Connors’ famous Bowery/Chinatown slumming tour, circa 1900
Courtesy Adam Woodward Collection.
WHERE TO PLACE LINK:
*RESOURCES
–Walking Tours
*FILM
*WINDOWS ON THE BOWERY – #5 – The 18 Bowery piece where it mentions Chuck Connors

#4—RADIO EXCERPTS—“Sammy’s Bowery Follies: Interview with owner Sammy Fuchs and performers Dora Pelletier, Danny Barrett, Edward R. Smith, and others.” 20 minutes.
Photographed by famous photographers like Weegee, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Lissette Model and
Erika Stone, the legendary Sammy’s Bowery Follies was—from its hey day in the 1940s and 50s
until it closed in 1970—a unique place “where the highlife meets the low life.”
Featuring out of work performers from the dying institution of vaudeville, and serving drinks
affordable for the Bowery’s down-and-out, this gay 1890s-themed club became a hotspot for
tourists and even the glitterati.
SEE Eric Ferrara’s Windows on the Bowery piece on Sammy’s Bowery Follies.
PHOTOGRAPHS:
4a—Outside Sammy’s Bowery Follies Photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt
4b—Sammy’s Bowery Follies, 1949 Photo By Burt Glinn © Magnum Photos
4c—Sammy Fuchs, photographed by Weegee Courtesy Charlie Katz
4d—Performers at Sammy’s Bowery Follies
WHERE TO PLACE LINK:
*HISTORY
–Historical/Cultural Significance of Bowery – under Theater
*WINDOWS ON THE BOWERY – #43 – Sammy’s Bowery Follies piece
*RESOURCES
–Radio Excerpts

[Note to ONNO – Item 5, including images and text and the radio interview itself were on our old website. You should already have that. Am including a CD copy of the interview as well, just in case. Best of all, I’ve attached an already prepared page with the INTRO to the Jolson piece and a place to link it.]
#5—RADIO EXCERPTS—“Al Jolson Remembers His First Singing Job Was on the Bowery” June 6, 1945 interview with Al Jolson is excerpted from Milton Berle’s radio show Let Yourself Go,
which was presented on CBS by the Eversharp Pen Company.
Courtesy: Ed Greenbaum. Special thanks to the International Jolson Society
WHERE TO PLACE LINK:
*HISTORY
–Historical/Cultural Significance of Bowery – under Theater
*FUN FACTS ABOUT THE BOWERY
–NYC’S First Entertainment District – 3rd paragraph from bottom
*WINDOWS ON THE BOWERY – #28 – Vaudeville Hook is Born! Miner’s Bowery Theatre
*WINDOWS ON THE BOWERY – #42 – ‘Sidewalks of NY’ Premieres on the Bowery’ [London theatre]
*RESOURCES
–Radio Excerpts

#6—SONG–“Sidewalks of New York” by Charles B. Lawler and James W. Blake, 1894. Until Frank Sinatra’s hit recording of Kander and Ebb’s “New York, New York,”
Lawler and Blake’s “Sidewalks of New York” was probably the city’s most iconic and beloved song.
The song had its premiere on the Bowery, and was often coupled in medley with the song –“The Bowery.”
SEE Windows on the Bowery signage piece #42 “Sidewalks of New York” Premieres on the Bowery.

*Brief story of the song, plus rendition by Robert Sean Leonard, from New York, New York:
A Documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsx_uxISjM0
*1920s recording by Nat Shilkret Orchestra. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdRY9IrjxXY
Note – this recording has an interlude with passages of the song “The Bowery.”

PHOTOS:
6a—sheet music for ‘Sidewalks of New York’
WHERE TO PLACE LINK:
*HISTORY
–Historical/Cultural Significance of Bowery – under Music
*WINDOWS ON THE BOWERY – #42 – ‘Sidewalks of NY’ Premieres on the Bowery’ [London theatre]

#7—RADIO EXCERPTS—“The Sunshine Hotel,” a radio portrait of one of the last flophouses on the Bowery, was recorded by David Isay with Stacey Abramson at 241-245 Bowery, with narration by the hotel’s manager, Nathan Smith. It premiered on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered on September 18, 1998.
http://www.soundportraits.org/on-air/the_sunshine_hotel/

The Sunshine Hotel 

This is an audio portrait of one of the final vestiges of the Bowery, New York’s notorious skid row. In the first half of the century, the mile-long Bowery’s bars, missions and cheap hotels (or flophouses) were home to an estimated 35,000 down-and-out men each night. Today, only a handful of flophouses, virtually unchanged for half a century, are all that remain of this once teeming world.
For several months in 1998, David Isay and Stacy Abramson had unprecedented 24-hour access to the Sunshine Hotel, one of the last of the no-frills establishments. “It was like stepping into King Tut’s Tomb,” Isay says. “The Sunshine is this fascinating, self-contained society full of unbelievable characters. While it’s a profoundly sad place, it is, at the same time, home to men with powerful and poetic stories.”
The Sunshine Hotel was awarded the Prix Italia, Europe’s oldest and most prestigious broadcasting award, in 1999.
This radio documentary and interviews that Isay and Abramson conducted at other Bowery hotels
inspired the book called Flophouse: Life on the Bowery, which features powerful photographs by
Harvey Wang. http://pro.harveywang.com/galleries/flophouse-life-on-the-bowery
Both the book and a cd of the radio portrait are available through Amazon.

PHOTOS:
All photos must have © Harvey Wang [He was insistent about that]
7a—Anthony Coppola Sunshine Hotel, 1999 © Harvey Wang
7b—FLOPHOUSE [book cover] by Isay and Wang, 2000 © Harvey Wang
7c—Nathan Smith, manager 1999 Sunshine Hotel © Harvey Wang [
7d—Sunshine Hotel, 1999 © Harvey Wang
7e—The Andrews Hotel, 1998 © Harvey Wang
7f—Providence Hotel, 1998 © Harvey Wang
7g—White House Hotel, 1998 © Harvey Wang

WHERE TO PLACE LINK:
*WINDOWS ON THE BOWERY – #38 – A Bowery Flop for 5 cents a night
*HISTORY
–Historical and Cultural Significance of the Bowery – Under Additional cultural and historical info
*RESOURCES
–Radio Excerpts
*RESOURCES
–Reading List [under David Isay and Stacy Abramson’s FLOPHOUSE…]

Written by onno · Categorized: Resources

Jun 23 2016

Windows on the Bowery

Posters are listed by location

Hover over dot to see poster address and description. Click dot to see poster. Click poster to return to the map. Hover does not work on mobile devices, but you can zoom in to see the locations more clearly.

64Astor Place The Astor Place Riot!
627 East 7th street Cooper Union
6356-62 cooper square A Tower of Music Carl Fischer Music Publishers Building
6127 Cooper Square Bowery Arts and Beats
60392 Bowery (Now 32 Cooper Square) Paresis Hall Gay Nightlife on the Bowery
595 Cooper Square The Hippest Place on Earth Five Spot Jazz Club
58Bowery To Broadway Vauxhall Gardens Pleasure Garden of Fireworks and Music
57357 Bowery Germania Fire Insurance Building in NYC’s “Little Germany”
56330 Bowery Casting at CastIron Bank From Tellers to Cockettes
55325-335 Bowery (Rear) Secret Cemetery Secret Garden
54325 Bowery From Speakeasy to Tin Palace Jazz Club
53321 Bowery Then You Saw It/Now You Don’t Otto Mauer’s
52319 Bowery World’s Smallest Opera House
51317 Bowery America’s First Great Black Comedian at Alexander’s Dime Museum
50316-318 Bowery Hats, Hardware and Horses (Italianate style)
49315 Bowery CBGB Birthplace of Punk Rock!
48306 Bowery 21st Century Fashion in a 19th Century House!
47298 Bowery From Baseball to Houdini (Gotham Inn Globe Dime Museum)
46295 Bowery McGurk’s Suicide Hall
45Bowery at Houston NYC’s First Community Garden Liz Christy Garden
44268 Bowery Cigar Factory on the Bowery
43265-267 Bowery Sammy’s Bowery Follies
42235 Bowery “Sidewalks of New York” Premiere (Former site of London Theatre)
41229 Bowery Charles Eisenmann’s Photography Studio
40227-229 Bowery The Bowery Mission: 140 Years of Help and Hope
39222 Bowery Incubator for Art: YMCA Building
38219-221 Bowery A Bowery Flop for 5¢ a Night @ Alabama Hotel
37215 Bowery Italian Renaissance Palazzo on the Bowery!
36209 Bowery Longest running Catalogue in America
35207 Bowery “Big Tim” Sullivan’s Clubhouse
34206-208 Bowery 200 Years and Counting (Federal Era house)
33199-201 Bowery Yiddish Theater’s First American Home
32199-201 Bowery Birthplace of Vaudeville?
31193 Bowery Christians, Cops, Elks and Anarchism
30190 Bowery From Making Money to Making Art Germania Bank
29184 Bowery Home of Photographer Robert Frank
28165-167 Bowery Vaudeville Hook Is Born!
27163 Bowery John Brown’s Body on the Bowery
26161 Bowery Hi-Tech Behind a Renaissance Revival Façade plus Shepard Fairey mural
25159 Bowery Faerman’s Cash Registers Ka Ching!
24146-148 Bowery NYC’s Oldest Operating Hotel
23138 Bowery Italian Theatre and Triple Jointed Wonders (Former theatre/dime museum site)
22134-136 Bowery Anti-Slavery Work in Federal Era Houses
21130 Bowery Bowery Savings Bank A Stanford White Masterpiece
20124-126 Bowery From Beaux Arts Bank to Bannanas(Bowery Bank)
19114 Bowery Man Survives Leap From Brooklyn Bridge
18105 Bowery “A Carnival of Debauchery” Owney Geoghegan’s Boxing Saloon
17104-06 Bowery Ghosts and Occasional Mayhem
16103 Bowery Site of famous Berenice Abbott photograph
15101-03 Bowery Freaks! Assassins!(Former Dime Museum)
1497 Bowery NYC Landmark of Cast Iron
13Bowery at canal (nw corner) From Footpath to Streetcars and Elevated Trains
1258 Bowery Renaissance-Inspired Bank for the Working Class
1150 Bowery George Washington Drank at the Bull’s Head Tavern
1046-48 Bowery The Bowery Theatre Shakespeare: America’s Largest Theatre
943-47 Bowery A Forgotten Gem: “Lost New York” German Winter Garden
840 Bowery The Bowery Boys
737-39 Bowery High and Low Art at Influential Theatre
630 Bowery America’s First Great Songwriter Stephen Foster
518 Bowery NYC’s Oldest Brick House Edward Mooney House
411 Chatham Square 16 Bowery Birthplace of Modern Tattooing
32 Bowery at Doyers Street Gateway to Old Chinatown
2Bowery at Division Street Barnum’s First Big Bamboozle Washington’s
1Bowery Introduction by Carry Colhane
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