The Bowery Bum has long been a symbol of urban dissolution: a 1931"composite profile" in The New Yorker titled, aptly enough, "Bowery Bum," noted of its subject, John McGoorty, "The extent of his ...

With the Bowery Hotel now open, Gothamist thought it was worth taking one final look at the Bowery of the 1970s and '80s through the lens of Luc Sante, author of Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New ...

One of the Bowery’s last flophouses just got a new lease on life. The Sunshine Hotel, which has been featured in several documentaries for its mix of bleak conditions and eccentric personalities, will ...

It was a requiem for a Bowery bum. Henry J.P. Landry died of drink, on a dirty mattress, in one of the last of the Bowery flophouses. It was an ignominious end to decades spent in the shadows. Landry ...

Like the Jane and Ace hotels before it, the Bowery House (220 Bowery, nr. Prince St.), opening officially August 20, has taken over one of New York’s historic rooming houses and transformed it into a ...

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