Bowery

Bow·er·y  (bou-r, bour)

A section of lower Manhattan in New York City. The street that gives the area its name was once the road to Peter Stuyvesant's bouwerij, or farm. At various times the Bowery has been notorious for its saloons, petty criminals, and derelicts.

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Bowery [ˈbaʊərɪ]

n

(Placename) the. a street in New York City noted for its cheap hotels and bars, frequented by vagrants and drunks

[from Dutch bouwerij, from bouwen to farm + erij -ery; see boor, Boer]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	Bowery - a street in Manhattan noted for cheap hotels frequented by homeless derelicts Manhattan - one of the five boroughs of New York City
Adj.	1.	bowery - like a bower; leafy and shady; "a bowery lane" leafy - having or covered with leaves; "leafy trees"; "leafy vegetables"