The Bowery: Devil’s Mile

Now playing at the New Museum, *The Bowery: Devil’s Mile* looks back at the Bowery as a contested New York corridor, shaped by migration, poverty, policing, and redevelopment. The work treats the street as both subject and archive, tracing how public space becomes a record of who is allowed to belong and who is pushed out. Shown in a city where the Bowery’s image has been repeatedly repackaged—from skid row mythology to luxury branding—the exhibition reads as a sober correction rather than nostalgia.