"The Bowery: Devil’s Mile,” opening September 24, traces 400 years of the iconic strip known as a destination for fun, however raucous or refined. The Bowery: Devil’s Mile will comprise archival materials, artifacts, and artworks representing four centuries of innovation and inspiration along the museum's home street. The upper Bowery became leisurely estates for the wealthy, while the lower portion was outfitted for the livestock industry. Entrepreneurship along the Bowery stimulated an amusement-centered economy of taverns, vaudeville and burlesque theaters, circuses, and dime museums. Unknown artist, “The Five Points” (c. 1827) (image courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art)Jacob Riis, “[Family in room in tenement house.