165 Bowery
also 167 Bowery | Lower East Side | built 1920
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.
- 1870
Tinsmith William Chappel of 165 Bowery paints the city of about 1810 from memory
William Chappel, a Manhattan-born tinsmith who lived at 165 Bowery across from the Bowery Theatre, painted small oil scenes of New York as it looked around 1810, including peddlers, a leather-helmeted watchman and volunteer firemen washing their engines on the Bowery. This was an earlier building on the site. The Metropolitan Museum of Art showed 27 of them in 2017, noting they were painted in the 1870s, decades after the period they depict.
Source: Ephemeral New York
Further reading
- A Bowery tinsmith paints his city of memoryEphemeral New York
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