Book Talk: The Bowery – A Pictorial History

Organized by Bowery Alliance of Neighbors with Ottendorfer Library

An Illustrated talk with author David Mulkins

Native American trail, Dutch farm road, free Black homesteads, and Washington’s march route during the
British evacuation, Bowery became the main street of immigrants & the working class. NYC’s 1st entertainment
district, it has seminal links to tap dance, vaudeville, Yiddish theater, Stephen Foster, Irving Berlin, Harry
Houdini, and modern tattooing. It later became an iconic skid row, but reemerged and helped foster Abstract
Expressionism, Beat literature, Free Jazz, and punk rock.

Special guests: Ramona Baker (ragtime pianist)

For Adults 18+