According to the NYCVisit web site's page on the The Dutch Contribution to New York's Vocabulary, "bowery" means "farm." The street followed the path of a road leading to a Peter Stuyvessant's farm. (See related link for more information.)
== == == == An aside: Nicolas de la Plaine, a French Huguenot that came to America in 1639 with the Dutch, owned a tulip farm that is now the Bowery. He was also the Burger of New Amsterdam (New York).
the bowery boys
The Bowery - song - was created in 1892.
Operation Bowery happened in 1942.
Bowery Amphitheatre was created in 1833.
Bowery Amphitheatre ended in 1866.
Bowery Mission was created in 1879.
Bowery at Midnight was created in 1942.
Bowery Theatre ended in 1929.
Bowery Theatre was created in 1826.
The Bowery boys are some young boys that would go around towns and start fights with other towns Bowery boys my big brother is the leader of the Bowery boys
The Bowery Savings Bank is long gone. I used to work for them in the 1980's. They merged with another bank and their name disappeared, and then that bank merged with another bank, and on and on.
Michael Bowery has written: 'Canham'