Bleecker Street
Bleecker Street is an east–west street in Lower Manhattan, New York City. It is most famous today as a Greenwich Village nightclub district. The street connects a neighborhood popular today for music venues and comedy as well as an important center of LGBT history and culture and bohemian tradition. The street is named after the family name of Anthony Lispenard Bleecker, a banker, the father of Anthony Bleecker, a 19th-century writer, through whose family farm the street once ran.[1]
For other uses, see Bleecker Street (disambiguation).Bleecker Street connects Abingdon Square (the intersection of Eighth Avenue and Hudson Street) in the West Village, to the Bowery in the East Village and NoHo.
Bayard–Condict Building
closed in 1991
Bleecker Street Cinema
formerly known as Bleecker Street Theater
Lynn Redgrave Theater
one of the nation's first progressive schools, on the corner of 6th Avenue and Bleecker Street.
The Little Red Schoolhouse
Our Lady of Pompeii Church, Carmine Street
Overthrow, a club, is located at 9 Bleecker Street, in the former home of the Youth International Party (Yippie)[9][10]
boxing
at 160 Bleecker Street was planned to be designated as an official landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1967, but the owner's lawyer objected.[11]
Mills House No. 1
The Silver Towers at 100 Bleecker Street are home to faculty housing
New York University
lived at 172 Bleecker Street, above Cafe Espanol (1941–1951)
James Agee
lived at 376 Bleecker Street (1975)
John Belushi
Mykel Board
grew up on Bleecker Street
Robert De Niro
Mariska Hargitay
Alicia Keys
at 21 Bleecker Street (2019–2020)
Dua Lipa
(1737–1809) lived at 293 Bleecker briefly in 1808–1809 (Conway, Life of Thomas Paine, vol. 2, p. 408
Thomas Paine
Jeweler and Sculptor Jill Platner lives and works at 58 Bleecker
[21]
lived at 350 Bleecker Street (1968–1993), from which he organized New York's first gay pride parade.[22]
Craig Rodwell
Edward Thebaud
Mark Van Doren
lived at 21 Bleecker Street
Jean-Claude van Itallie
Dave Winer
's 1949 novel The Bells of Bleecker Street is set in the Italian American community in that neighborhood.
Valenti Angelo
"The Repairer of Reputations"—the first short story in 1895 collection The King in Yellow—includes a storyline featuring an armourer on Bleecker Street.