Atlantic Garden

The Atlantic Garden was a beer garden and music hall established by William Kramer in 1858 at what is now 50 Bowery in the Chinatown neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. It was next to the Bowery Theatre, on the site of the Bull's Head Tavern (formerly headquarters for New York's cattle market) and the New York Hotel.^[1] The premises extended west to a secondary frontage on Elizabeth Street.^[2]

The Bowery Theatre was built as a fashionable theater, but by the 1850s it came to cater to immigrant groups; the Germans especially patronized Atlantic Garden, which featured a theater behind the beer hall, where the new entertainment of "variety" acts were presented along with popular music concerts.^[3] In 1910, following the neighborhood's changing dynamic, Atlantic Garden switched to presenting Yiddish theatre.^[4]

In 2013, the Chu family razed structures on the site to make way for a high-rise hotel.^[5]^[6] Although there were rumors that the site might have contained remnants of the old Bull's Head Tavern, an archeological excavation did not find any such evidence.^[6]

References

^ Manhattan Unlocked: "The tavern itself would, according to Kenneth Dunshee's As You Pass By, become 'the New York Hotel and still later was occupied by the Atlantic Garden.'"
^ Manhattan Unlocked: In and Around the Bowery Theater' quoting New York Times article of 1910.
^ A performance chronology is included in Carl Eugene Marquardt, "The German drama on the New York Stage, 1840-1872" (University of Pennsylvania), noted in John Koegel, Music in German Immigrant Theater: New York City, 1840-1940, p 498 note 17.
^ "Atlantic Garden Changes Its Ways; Famous Old Bowery Resort Turned Into a Yiddish Vaudeville Theatre". The New York Times. 1910-10-04. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-09-01.
^ Ed Litvak, Remnants From Bull’s Head Tavern May Have Been Found Beneath Bowery Demolition Site, The Lo-Down: News from the Lower East Side, October 13, 2013. Accessed online 2017-10-10.
^ ^a ^b Rueb, Emily S. (2016-02-12). "Awakening the Bowery's Ghosts". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-09-01.

External links

50 Bowery: Phase IB Archaeological Monitoring and Field Testing of the 50 Bowery site (Block 202, Lot 23), New York, New York

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[1] Manhattan Unlocked: "The tavern itself would, according to Kenneth Dunshee's As You Pass By, become 'the New York Hotel and still later was occupied by the Atlantic Garden.'"

[2] Manhattan Unlocked: In and Around the Bowery Theater' quoting New York Times article of 1910.

[3] A performance chronology is included in Carl Eugene Marquardt, "The German drama on the New York Stage, 1840-1872" (University of Pennsylvania), noted in John Koegel, Music in German Immigrant Theater: New York City, 1840-1940, p 498 note 17.

[4] "Atlantic Garden Changes Its Ways; Famous Old Bowery Resort Turned Into a Yiddish Vaudeville Theatre". The New York Times. 1910-10-04. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-09-01.

[5] Ed Litvak, Remnants From Bull’s Head Tavern May Have Been Found Beneath Bowery Demolition Site, The Lo-Down: News from the Lower East Side, October 13, 2013. Accessed online 2017-10-10.

[nyt-2016-02-12-6] Rueb, Emily S. (2016-02-12). "Awakening the Bowery's Ghosts". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-09-01.

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