Zito's Bakery building
259 Bleecker Street | also 263 Bleecker Street | West Village | built 1904
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1904
Horenburger & Straub design a six-story tenement for 32 families at 259-263 Bleecker
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The architects Horenburger & Straub drew up the Renaissance Revival building in 1904 for owners Isaac Leader and Jacob Bloom. It was planned as a six-story tenement with stores on the ground floor and homes for thirty-two families above. The facade mixes red brick, white-brick quoins and terra-cotta trim.
- 1926
A. Zito & Son bakery opens in the ground floor of 259 Bleecker
In 1926 the bakery A. Zito & Son began operating in a storefront of this tenement, and it stayed for decades. Its shop window drew the photographer Berenice Abbott, whose 1937 picture of it is titled "Bread Store."
“From 1926 through the mid-1990s the building was the home of A. Zito & Son's bakery whose shop window was immortalized by the photographer Berenice Abbott…”
- 1937
Berenice Abbott photographs the storefront of Zito's Bakery
On February 3, 1937, Berenice Abbott photographed the storefront of Zito's Bakery at 259 Bleecker Street. She made several photographs of the shop, and the Museum of the City of New York is credited as the source of the prints.
Source: Village Preservation
- 2004
Zito's Bakery closes after Anthony Zito retires
Zito's bakery, known for letting neighbors bake their own bread in its ovens, closed in 2004 when Anthony Zito retired. The Greenwich Village Society had given it a Village Award in 1997.
Source: Village Preservation
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