[2][3][4] Bow Bazar Street has been renamed Bepin Behari Ganguly Street (named after Bipin Behari Ganguli (1887–1954), revolutionary leader, who spent about 24 years in British Indian jails, later joining the Congress movement).

Ganguly Street) and Dr. Lalit Banerjee Sarani-Khirode Vidya Binode Avenue (New CIT Road) pass through the area from east to west.

There are, as well, shops dealing in wooden furniture, musical instruments, shoes, seasonal fruits, fresh vegetables and meat, etc.

[14] Mohammad Rashid Khan, a satta don, bombed Bowbazar on 16 March 1993, which killed 69 people.

[15][16] Banga Natyalay, in nearby Pathuriaghata, was the first theatre to print admission cards in Bengali.

[19] Very old sweet shops, associated with the memories of Iswarchandra Vidyasagar and Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee, still exist in Bowbazar.