Atlantic Garden

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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.[http://manhattanunlocked.blogspot.com/2011/03/in-and-around-bowery-theatre.html 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.'" The premises extended west to a secondary frontage on Elizabeth Street.[http://manhattanunlocked.blogspot.com/2011/03/in-and-around-bowery-theatre.html Manhattan Unlocked: In and Around the Bowery Theater' quoting New York Times article of 1910.]

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.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. In 1910, following the neighborhood's changing dynamic, Atlantic Garden switched to presenting Yiddish theatre.{{Cite news|date=1910-10-04|title=Atlantic Garden Changes Its Ways; Famous Old Bowery Resort Turned Into a Yiddish Vaudeville Theatre|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1910/10/04/archives/atlantic-garden-changes-its-ways-famous-old-bowery-resort-turned-in.html|access-date=2022-09-01|issn=0362-4331}}

In 2013, the Chu family razed structures on the site to make way for a high-rise hotel.{{cite web |first=Ed |last=Litvak |url=http://www.thelodownny.com/leslog/tag/atlantic-garden |title=Remnants From Bull's Head Tavern May Have Been Found Beneath Bowery Demolition Site |website=The Lo-Down: News from the Lower East Side |date=October 13, 2013 |access-date=2017-10-10}}{{Cite news|last=Rueb|first=Emily S.|date=2016-02-12|title=Awakening the Bowery's Ghosts|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/14/nyregion/awakening-the-bowerys-ghosts.html|access-date=2022-09-01|issn=0362-4331}} 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.