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Bowery

[ UK /bˈa‍ʊəɹi/ ]
[ US /ˈbaʊɝi/ ]
NOUN
  1. a street in Manhattan noted for cheap hotels frequented by homeless derelicts

How To Use Bowery In A Sentence

  • He made friends, had adventures, found ways to fight the boredom with his cluster of rat-eyed Latin Bowery Boys.
  • The bulk of the rest of the block between Second Avenue and Bowery is occupied by the Avalon at Bowery Place apartment complex. Diving Into Downtown Culture
  • He made friends, had adventures, found ways to fight the boredom with his cluster of rat-eyed Latin Bowery Boys.
  • By 18, Fellig was living alone among the flophouses of the Bowery and worked a succession of jobs - as a labourer and taking passport photographs - until 1924, when he found employment in the darkrooms of Acme Newspictures.
  • As the Bowery fete ably proves, Superdrag's back catalog is loaded with power-pop bullets-such as the cheerfully bitter post-major-label plaint "Keep It Close to Me Village Voice - The most recent 10 stories
  • In the movie "Bowery to Broadway" (1944), it is the members of the Murray Hill Society for Social Reform — a perfect bluenose name — who call in the police to halt a performance by the song-and-dance protagonist. Visiting Cagney's Neighborhood
  • The Bowery is just a New York street, but in those days it was also a community with a culture and rituals and an argot all its own. Tales from the Bowery
  • Liz Christy took to petitioning the city's Housing and Preservation Department to make their newly-created garden - which they called the Bowery Garden - an official community garden. Energy Bulletin -
  • A knife to his belly had brought him to the Bowery Mission, where he continues as a lay preacher.
  • He seems to favor the man's man… and this is clear in the male-oriented subject matter of his earliest works, which were more appropriate to a Bowery barroom than a European movie parlor.
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