Bowery

The Bowery

Looking north from Houston Street
Former name(s)	Bowery Lane (prior to 1807)
Length	1.6 km (0.99 mi)
South end	Chatham Square
North end	East 4th Street (continues as Cooper Square)

The Bowery (/ˈbaʊəri/)^[1][2] is a street and neighborhood in Lower Manhattan in New York City, United States. The street runs from Chatham Square at Park Row, Worth Street, and Mott Street in the south to Cooper Square at 4th Street in the north.^[3] The eponymous neighborhood runs roughly from the Bowery east to Allen Street and First Avenue, and from Canal Street north to Cooper Square/East Fourth Street.^[4][5][6] The neighborhood roughly overlaps with Little Australia. To the south is Chinatown, to the east are the Lower East Side and the East Village, and to the west are Little Italy and NoHo.^[6][7] It has historically been considered a part of the Lower East Side of Manhattan.^[8]

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. The street was known as Bowery Lane prior to 1807.^[9] "Bowery" is an anglicization of the Dutch bouwerie, derived from an antiquated Dutch word for "farm": In the 17th century the area contained many large farms.^[3]

The New York City Subway's Bowery station, serving the BMT Nassau Street Line (J and ​Z trains), is located close to the Bowery's intersection with Delancey and Kenmare Streets. There is a tunnel under the Bowery intended for use by a never-built subway extension.^[10][11] The M103 bus runs on the entire Bowery.