Atlantic Garden

The Atlantic Garden was a beer garden and music hall established by William Kramer in 1858 at what is now 50, Bowery, New York City, next to the Bowery Theatre (built in 1826) and on the site of the Bull's Head Tavern, formerly headquarters for New York's cattle market, and the New York Hotel.[1] The premises extended west to a secondary frontage on Elizabeth Street.[2]

Atlantic Garden circa 1890

1905 map of the block between Elizabeth (west) & Bowery (east), Bayard (south) and Canal (north). The premises of the Atlantic Garden correspond roughly to the large yellow area.

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.[3] In 1910, following the neighborhood's changing dynamic, Atlantic Garden switched to presenting Yiddish theatre.[4]

In 2013 structures on the site were razed to make way for a high-rise hotel.[5]

References

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.'"
Manhattan Unlocked: In and Around the Bowery Theater' quoting New York Times article of 1910.
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.
New York Times, 1910: "Atlantic Garden Changes Its Ways".
Ed Litvak, Remnants From Bull’s Head Tavern May Have Been Found Beneath Bowery Demolition Site, The Lo-Down: News from the Lower East Side, October 13, 2013. Accessed online 2017-10-10.

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[1] 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.'"

[2] Manhattan Unlocked: In and Around the Bowery Theater' quoting New York Times article of 1910.

[3] 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.

[4] New York Times, 1910: "Atlantic Garden Changes Its Ways".

[5] Ed Litvak, Remnants From Bull’s Head Tavern May Have Been Found Beneath Bowery Demolition Site, The Lo-Down: News from the Lower East Side, October 13, 2013. Accessed online 2017-10-10.