a farm or plantation of an early Dutch settler of New York
See bowery in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(bouˈə-rē, bouˈrē)
A section of lower Manhattan in New York City. The street that gives the area its name was once the road to Peter Stuyvesant's bouwerij, or farm. At various times the Bowery has been notorious for its saloons, petty criminals, and derelicts.