Chugging Along the Bowery collection-new-york adopted rats

adopted rats

A detailed view of the interior of the Oculus

In June 1948

let me offer a few reflections from the past 8 years

Chugging Along the Bowery collection-new-york adopted ratsNorth 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