Chugging Along the Bowery collection-new-york In June 1948

In June 1948

adopted rats

the enormous cast worked up an appetite: at the invitation-only supper that followed

This photo appeared with The Times's annual guide

Chugging Along the Bowery collection-new-york In June 1948North view of the Bowery, framed by the Third Avenue Elevated tracks. Visible on the left are the Gaiety Theatre and an advertisement for Casperfield Cleveland Diamonds & Watches. On the streets, horse drawn carriages and trolleys are used for transportation. The Bowery was "the boulevard of the Lower East Side, the city's Cosmopolis," The Times declared. The street ran through "an area of gaunt tenements," harboring the kind of social misery that