thebowery

LOC -- "Bowery" should be capitalized.

Wystan, Thanks for the heads up! We will fix that when we update.

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called New York City Undertakers & Funeral Homes, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Awesome!..photographer unknown?

come as you are. strange elevated track?

293 Bowery @ Houston, looking north along the short block to E. 1st Street. There's some kind of garden and a glassed-in apartment building called the Avalon there now (Google Street View). A little more about the buildings on the right: "Between 1884 and 1932, the Bowery YMCA, housed for a time at Wesley Hall (291-293 Bowery), also provided mission-style services and housing. Today the building houses a Tibetan Buddhist meditation and teaching center. McGurk’s Suicide Hall at 295 Bowery also became a rescue mission for a time during the early 20th century." www.placeinhistory.org/projects/bowery/?page=10 50 years earlier (1863), the same spot was the location of a huge hotel fire covered in the NY Times. The building next door (295 Bowery) was a tobacco warehouse heavily damaged by water during the fighting of the fire.

I like the el tracks in the upper left-hand corner. I'll use this shot in a lesson for my 8th graders in our New York City Unit.

Yes, the elevated tracks you can see in this pic were narrow because they were one-way -- the uptown el ran on one side of the street above one sidewalk and the downtown el on the other side of the street above the other sidewalk. Bowery is a wide street and had several parallel streetcar lines on the street in between the two el trestles, as seen here. The Bowery el was built in 1878 and torn down in 1955. McGuirk's Suicide Hall, at the location of the "RESTAURANT" seen in this pic, was a notorious theater/saloon sort of establishment that supposedly acquired its nickname because so many young women committed suicide there. Some of these buildings actually lasted until 2005 when they were torn down for the Avalon. Next block up is where CBGB's used to be.

Any chance it might be this other Tim Sullivan? This looks to be Mott Street in front of old St. Patrick's.

This is the funeral of "Big" Tim Sullivan, on September 15, 1913. LOC -- "Bowery" should be capitalized.

Wystan, I think the funeral was on September 15, reported in NYT of Sept. 16. query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9C03E2D8123FE633A... "CLASS LINES VANISH AT SULLIVAN BURIAL; Judges and Senators Mix with Thieves and Gangsters for Last Tribute to Dead Leader."

@swang, Thank you; your evidence is incontrovertible.

Everyone, Thanks for the detective work on this image and the others of the funeral of 'Big Tim' Sullivan. We will update this record as well as the other related images to reflect the details.