Bowery Alliance of Neighbors

Preserving the Bowery

A Talk by Historian MIKE WALLACE

The Bowery & Lower East Side
100 Years Ago

Followed by Q & A and signing for his new book

Greater Gotham: A History of New York City, 1898-1919

Historian Mike Wallacetext

Mike Wallace teaches history at John Jay College and CUNY Graduate Center. He is the founder of the Gotham Center for NYC History.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning GOTHAM: A History of New York City to 1898 by Mike Wallace & Edwin Burrows set a new standard for urban history. Wallace continues the story with GREATER GOTHAM: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919, which surveys its move from national to global prominence:
Book, GREATER GOTHAM: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919

“From Wall Street to immigrant slums, from vaudeville to the Metropolitan Opera, from Tammany Hall to union radicals . . . a kaleidoscope of New York life in the two pivotal decades in which it emerged as the nation’s largest city and center of commerce, culture, and political radicalism.” —Eric Foner

“Magisterial” —Publishers Weekly

“A tour-de-force” —Phillip Lopate

Free Event!

Where: Grace Church School Auditorium, 46 Cooper Square

(South of Astor Place) Trains: 6 to Astor Place R, W to 8th Street

When: January 23 (Tuesday) at 6:30pm

RSVP by Jan. 19th: ban62007@gmail.com or call 212-674-9073

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Big Tim Sullivan Talk on May 24

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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

The Bowery: Past, Present & Future Lecture

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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.

Windows on the Bowery historic signage project receives media attention!

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Photo by D Mulkins

Posters on Display at Cooper Union Foundation Building Western Windows.

Since its launch in July, the Windows on the Bowery historic signage project has been receiving a tremendous amount of media attention. This unprecedented effort celebrates New York City’s oldest thoroughfare, and its important links to tap dance, vaudeville, Yiddish theater, Abe Lincoln, Stephen Foster, Irving Berlin, Abstract Expressionism, improvisational jazz, tattoo and punk rock. It also celebrates the Bowery’s unique architectural streetscape, which includes buildings from every decade from the 1780s to the present.

Bank Branch Manager Catherine NG
Photo by D Mulkins

Mandarin Dynasty Chandelier storefront with poster for the Birthplace of the Vaudeville Hook

Mandarin Dynasty Chandelier storefront with poster for the Birthplace of the Vaudeville Hook
Photo by D Mulkins

Bank Branch Manager Catherine Ng with full exhibition of posters inside the Bank.