A Manhattan Street Gets Its Own Retrospective at the New Museum

The Bowery, one of the oldest thoroughfares in Manhattan, is now the subject of a large-scale show at the New Museum, which has just opened an exhibition tracing the street's past. For readers who follow what a block is worth and how it got there, the subject is a rare one: a museum treating a single stretch of New York real estate as worthy of a full retrospective. The Bowery has long been read in its buildings, and an institution turning that record into a show gives the street the kind of attention usually reserved for an architect or an estate.

With reporting from Surface.