Chugging Along the Bowery collection-new-york A detailed view of the

A detailed view of the interior of the Oculus

In June 1948

will hop here and there around the world

adopted rats

with headlines like "Jollity Reigns Supreme

Chugging Along the Bowery collection-new-york A detailed view of theNorth view of the Bowery, framed by the Third Avenue Elevated tracks. Visible on the left are the Gaiety Theatre and an advertisement for Casperfield Cleveland Diamonds & Watches. On the streets, horse drawn carriages and trolleys are used for transportation. The Bowery was "the boulevard of the Lower East Side, the city's Cosmopolis," The Times declared. The street ran through "an area of gaunt tenements," harboring the kind of social misery that