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The Street Where You Live: The Bowery, Scrubbed

The disreputable ghosts of Boweries past-the gangsters, vagabonds and punk rockers who saw the street shape—shift over the past century and a half—likely have more in common with each other than with...

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Gut Punch! Landmarks Halts Bowery Renovation, Owner Incensed

Five months after the Department of Buildings approved a proposal for renovation at 135 Bowery, building owner Ricky Wong received an unwelcome letter from the city's Landmarks Preservation Commission....

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Red-Hot Steel? Sperone Westwater Gallery Scrapes the Bowery Sky

Once the site of flophouses, pawnshops and dive bars, the Bowery is fast becoming a headquarters for contemporary art and architecture. The New Museum's critically acclaimed opening there three years...

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New Bowery Boutique Hotel More Shocking Than a Poodle with a Mohawk

Last week it was revealed that a new boutique hotel would replace a Salvation Army shelter on the Bowery, driving the final slender, glassy nail into the old, down-and-out Bowery's coffin. Today, the...

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Hey, Ho, Let’s Going, Going, Gone! CBGB ‘Brand’ Put Up for Auction

"Oh, right, the place from the t-shirts!" As far as we can tell, CBGB is little more than a series of letters appearing on t-shirts in suburban malls. Apparently it was a rock club once, right? Well,...

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Made in Iran: Street Art and Punk Music?

A work by ICY and SOT. (Photo by Robert Altman) Last Thursday, as one of several photographers pointed his lens, two grown men posed by their paintings, shyly smiling and giving no indication...

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NIMBY Battle Heats Up on the LES, but Whose Backyard Is It?

The Sperone Westwater Gallery is not a fan of the proposed development. The Bowery now has a Freitag boutique and a Whole Foods. Galleries and trendy restaurants rub shoulders with wholesale kitchen...

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RKF’s Bowery Bustle, Mapped

Wine bars really began to supplant winos on the Bowery in 2007, when Whole Foods, the Bowery Hotel and the New Museum of Contemporary Art all opened on New York’s fabled broken boulevard. The 2008...

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Leather Daddy Designer Buys Daughter $2.2 M. Bowery Box

Who's your daddy? Kinky retail architect Peter Marino is no square, but his daughter's a different story: Isabelle Trapnell Marino just picked up a two-bedroom condo at the sleekly rectangular Morris...

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Retail Run on Bowery

Much has been made of the metamorphosis of the Bowery from one time skid row to trendy runway. Boutique hotels, apartment buildings, the New Museum and residential developments have landed and it seems...

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