#bleecker st.

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A couple share a soda at the Cock 'n Bull on Bleecker Street, November 14, 1959.

Photo: Bettmann Archives/Getty Images/All That's Interesting

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An industrial designer's window, Bleecker Street, 1947.

Photo: Berenice Abbott via Christie's

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Zito's Bakery, Bleecker St., ca. 1948.

Photo: Berenice Abbott via MoMA

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Boys blowing horns on Bleecker Street on New Year's Day, 1942.

Photo: Marjory Collins via LoC

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Cheese Store, 276 Bleecker St., 1937. Photo: Berenice Abbott

The names of cheeses are like poems for those who like the sound of words: cacitella, latticini, scamorzza, ricotta salate, mozzarella, provolette—recite them like Vachel Lindsay’s train announcer. To the eye there is an equal cadence in the cheese store window, the round Bel Paese cartons reiterated, the wicker cases making the cottage cheese look whiter, the round skins of cheese hard and soft, the great Parmesan cheese and the smaller tinfoil-covered Gorgonzola. To add the orchestration of another timbre, there are the salamis and sausages hanging in the back. All these objects, shapes, sizes, forms, textures, and tones compose to create a fantasy from the real world.

—Elizabeth McCausland

McCausland was a writer and critic and Abbott’s longtime partner.

[popsixsquishcicerolipschitz]

Bond No. 9

Bleeker St

[kvatek]

bleecker st. gas leak... nyc