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New York’s Chinatown and Bowery has become the last resort for artists, music-makers, and other night dwellers |
New York’s Chinatown and Bowery has become the last resort for artists, music-makers, and other night dwellers for affordable living in Manhattan. It’s a neighborhood that still preserves the spirit, beauty, and rawness of Downtown Manhattan that has been overrun by corporate symbols, new irrational laws, and a chain of new buildings that nowadays serve as a playground for hedge fund managers and their peers. The Five Points neighborhood and its close territories are still a font of creative energy for artists and musicians, a place where chaos is consistent with order, a site for cheap deli stores and Asian restaurants, a spot for hidden gambling places and whorehouses. It’s also the home and working place of many friends of mine, for example, multimedia artists and musicians Lizzi Bougatsos and Brian DeGraw, or avant-garde guitar player Mick Barr.
