1.5 hours
Asbury Book Cooperative
Starting at USD 7
Sat, 06 Sep, 2025 at 05:00 pm to 06:30 pm (GMT-04:00)
Asbury Book Cooperative
644A Cookman Avenue, Asbury Park, United States
Join us for a presentation and signing by David Mulkins, author of THE BOWERY.
The $5 ticket reserves your seat and will receive a $5 coupon upon arrival at the store that you can use for a purchase that night!
Walk-ins to this event are welcome but space is limited.
Hope to see you in the shop!
ABOUT THE BOOK:
The Bowery is New York City’s oldest street. Stretching 1.25 miles from Chatham Square to Cooper Square, it was a Native American footpath, Dutch wagon road, and the triumphal march route as Washington’s troops expelled the British. The city’s first entertainment district, it has seminal ties to tap dance, vaudeville, Yiddish theater, Houdini, modern tattooing, and American song. It was the working-class main street for sailors, shopgirls, sporting men, gangs, gays, and immigrant Irish, Italians, Chinese, Jews, and Germans. It saw America’s first free Black homesteads, first streetcars, first baseball club, and first free university. It boasts New York City’s oldest brick townhouse, oldest hotel, and first community garden. It witnessed labor marches, riots, and Lincoln’s famous antislavery speech at Cooper Union. Though it became a notorious skid row, during the second half of the 20th century its artists’ community and music venues helped foster Abstract Expressionism, Beat literature, improvisational jazz, and punk rock.The images in this book come from dozens of libraries, archives, museums, photographers, and collections from all over. David Mulkins is a retired history and cinema studies teacher, president of the Bowery Alliance of Neighbors, and editor/contributing writer for the book Windows on the Bowery: 400 Years on NYC’s Oldest Street.
AUTHOR BIO:
David Mulkins is a retired history and cinema studies teacher, president of the Bowery Alliance of Neighbors, and editor/contributing writer for the book Windows on the Bowery: 400 Years on NYC’s Oldest Street. He has given illustrated talks about the Bowery at dozens of NYC venues, including the Tenement Museum, NYPL, Cooper Union, and the Bowery Poetry Club.
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Tickets for Presentation & Signing: The Bowery by David Mulkins can be booked here.
Ticket type | Ticket price |
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General Admission | 7 USD |
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