Devil's mile : the rich, gritty history of the Bowery /

A fascinating cultural history of New York City's Bowery, from the author of The Flatiron. The Bowery was a synonym for despair throughout most of the 20th century. The neighborhood's name recalled visuals of drunken bums passed out on the sidewalk, and New Yorkers nicknamed it 'Satan...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Alexiou, Alice Sparberg, 1951- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : St. Martin's Press, [2018]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Bowery (New York, N.Y. : Street) > History > 20th century. New York (N.Y.) > History. ARCHITECTURE / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945) HISTORY / Social History. HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)

Table of Contents:

The Dutch
The governor with the silver leg
Bowery Lane
The Astors
Shakespeare and Jim Crow come to the Bowery Theatre
The mob takes the stage
The Civil War on the Bowery
The devil's work
The Jews
The king of the Bowery
The bums on the Bowery
Punk
Bones and ghosts.