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“Windows On the Bowery” is Now a Book!

Some readers may remember that back in mid-2016, I contributed to the Bowery Alliance of Neighbors’ tremendous “Windows on the Bowery” project, which placed descriptive historical placards in shop windows of significant addresses up and down the Bowery. If you don’t remember, I can refresh your memory! I wrote about it several times:

In the Villager, now posted on the amNY site

I covered the opening on my cultural travel blog The Trav-a-Log (scroll down, there’s a post about Newport on top of it)

I covered the second opening at the HSBC Bowery Bank (the former Citizens’ Savings Bank) here

In addition to my entries in the book, you will find contributions by Eric Ferrara (whose great Bowery book we wrote about here); David Freeland, author of Automats, Taxi Dancers and Vaudeville, whom we wrote about in this Tin Pan Alley article, and Irish folk tsar Mick Moloney, among others.

Ordering information is in the virtual flyer above. Still time to get it as a Holiday gift!

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Writer and performer Trav S.D. (www.travsd.com) is best known for his books "No Applause, Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous" (2005) and "Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies from Nickelodeons to Youtube" (2013). He has written for the NY Times, the Village Voice, American Theatre, Time Out NY, Reason, the Villager and numerous other publications. Trav has been in the vanguard of New York’s vaudeville and burlesque scenes since 1995 when he launched his company Mountebanks, presenting hundreds of acts ranging from Todd Robbins to Dirty Martini to Tammy Faye Starlite to the Flying Karamazov Brothers. He has directed his own plays, revues and solo pieces at such venues as Joe’s Pub, La Mama, HERE, Dixon Place, Theater for the New City, the Ohio Theatre, the Brick, and 6 separate shows in the NY International Fringe Festival. In 2014 he produced and directed the smash-hit "I’ll Say She Is", the first ever revival of the Marx Brothers hit 1924 Broadway show in the NY International Fringe Festival.