NEW YORK: Before Manhattan’s Bowery became the hub for nightlife, hotels, and high-rise condos it is today, it was one of the country’s most notorious skid rows. And before that? It was a hub for nightlife. Excavations at the site of a new hotel have revealed evidence of Atlantic Garden, a famous 19th-century German beer garden that once occupied the site. The finds include plates, bottles, jugs, and vials of the patent medicines popular at the time.