The Bowery is Manhattan's oldest thoroughfare, a street and surrounding neighborhood running from Chatham Square in the south to Cooper Square at 4th Street, with roots as a Lenape footpath and later a Dutch colonial road connecting Peter Stuyvesant's farm to the city. Historically synonymous with poverty and transient population, the Bowery has undergone dramatic reinvention in recent decades, attracting galleries, restaurants, and upscale hotels while the memory of its storied — and notorious — past lingers.