Suggested Bowery reading list

• Alvin F. Harlow’s OLD BOWERY DAYS: THE CHRONICLES OF A FAMOUS STREET (Out of print but a bible for Bowery aficionados)
• WINDOWS ON THE BOWERY: 400 YEARS ON NYC’S OLDEST STREET Produced by the Bowery Alliance of Neighbors. Contributions by 19 writers/historians; design by Cooper Union. Over 400 illustrations.
• David Mulkins THE BOWERY a brief historical overview, with over 200 images
• Luc Sante’s LOW LIFE: LURES & SNARES OF OLD NEW YORK
• Tyler Anbinder’s FIVE POINTS
• Herbert Asbury’s THE GANGS OF NEW YORK
• Edwin Burrows & Mike Wallace’s GOTHAM – A HISTORY OF NYC TO 1898
• Mike Wallace’s GREATER GOTHAM: A HISTORY OF NEW YORK CITY FROM 1898 TO 1919
• George Chauncey, GAY NEW YORK
• Stephen Crane’s MAGGIE: GIRL OF THE STREETS and GEORGE’S ROOM
• Eric Ferrara’s THE BOWERY: A HISTORY OF GRIT, GRAFT, & GRANDEUR
• Armand & Marc Field’s FROM BOWERY TO BROADWAY: LEW FIELDS AND THE ROOTS OF AMERICAN POPULAR THEATER
• David Freeland’s AUTOMATS, TAXI DANCERS, & VAUDEVILLE
• Timothy J. Gilfoyle’s CITY OF EROS: NEW YORK CITY, PROSTITUTION & THE COMMERCIALIZATION OF SEX, 1790-1920.
• David Isay & Stacy Abramson, FLOPHOUSE: LIFE ON THE BOWERY , with photographs by Harvey Wang
• Owen Kildare, MY MAMIE ROSE: THE STORY OF MY REGENERATION
• Joyce Mendelsohn’s THE LOWER EAST SIDE: REMEMBERED & REVISITED
• Michael Mitchell’s MONSTERS: HUMAN FREAKS IN AMERICA’S GILDED AGE – THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF CHARLES EISENMANN (His studio was 229 Bowery)
• Joseph Mitchell’s McSORLEY’S WONDERFUL SALOON
• Peter Quinn’s BANISHED CHILDREN OF EVE (Historical novel)
• Trav S.D.’s NO APPLAUSE, JUST THROW MONEY (Vaudeville history)
• Richard F Welch, KING OF THE BOWERY (Big Tim Sullivan biography)
• Keven Baker, DREAMLAND (Historical novel)
• Parker Zellers, TONY PASTOR: DEAN OF THE VAUDEVILLE STAGE
• O. Henry, story “A LITTLE LOCAL COLOR”
• Alice Sparberg Alexiou’s DEVIL’S MILE: THE RICH, GRITTY HISTORY OF THE BOWERY
• Jami Attenberg’s SAINT MAZIE (a novel, based on life of Mazie Phillips)
• Arthur Bonner’s ALAS! WHAT BROUGHT THEE HITHER? – THE CHINESE IN NEW YORK, 1800-1950
• Caleb Carr’s THE ALIENIST (novel)
• Nigel Cliff’s THE SHAKESPEARE RIOTS: REVENGE, DRAMA, AND DEATH IN 19th CENTURY AMERICA (about the Astor Place Riots)
• Stephen Paul DeVillo’s THE BOWERY: THE STRANGE HISTORY OF NEW YORK’S OLDEST STREET
• Eric Homberger’s THE HISTORICAL ATLAS OF NEW YORK CITY: A VISUAL CELEBRATION OF NEARLY 400 YEARS OF NEW YORK CITY’S HISTORY
• Legs McNeil & Gillian McCain’s PLEASE KILL ME: AN UNCENSORED ORAL HISTORY OF PUNK
• Laurence Senelick’s THE AGE & STAGE OF GEORGE L. FOX, 1825-1877 (bio of famous 19th century clown)
• Jason Storbakken’s BOWERY MISSION: GRIT AND GRACE ON MANHATTAN’S OLDEST STREET
• Arthur W. Bloom, EDWIN FORREST: A BIOGRAPHY AND PERFORMANCE HISTORY
• Dale Cockrell, EVERYBODY’S DOIN’ IT: SEX, MUSIC, AND DANCE IN NY, 1840–1917
• Jerry Mikorenda, AMERICA’S FIRST FREEDOM RIDER: ELIZABETH JENNINGS, CHESTER A. ARTHUR, AND THE EARLY FIGHT FOR CIVIL RIGHTS (Fight to end segregated public transit system).

Compiled by: Bowery Alliance of Neighbors 184 Bowery, #4 New York, NY 10012

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