The Bowery (New York City, New York)

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Bowery ( /ˈbaʊ.əri/ or local /ˈbaʊ.ri/), commonly called "the Bowery," is a street and a small neighborhood in the downtown portion of New York City's Borough of Manhattan. The neighborhood's boundaries are East 4th Street and the East Village to the north, Allen Street and the Lower East Side to the east, Little Italy to the west of Bowery itself and Canal Street and Chinatown to the South. Although in practice Chinatown today probably extends further north, at least as far as Grand Street.

Bowery is an anglicisation of the Dutch "bouwerij", derived from an antiquated Dutch word for "farm." In the 17th century the road branched off Broadway north of Fort Amsterdam at the tip of Manhattan to the homestead of Peter Stuyvesant, Director-General of New Netherland. As a street, the Bowery was known as Bowery Lane prior to 1807. Today it runs from Chatham Square in the south to Cooper Square at 4th Street in the north. After Cooper Square, the street runs north as Third Avenue and to the northwest as Fourth Avenue.