333 Bleecker Street

also 329 Bleecker Street | West Village | built 1905

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1. 1802

   A grocer's frame house with a brick front goes up at Bleecker and Christopher Streets

   The corner house at 329 Bleecker Street was built sometime between 1802 and 1810 for William Patterson, a grocer who lived above his ground-floor store, as shopkeepers then did. It is frame construction with a Flemish-bond brick face. Neighbors at Nos. 331 to 337 were once part of the same Patterson property, and the Landmarks Preservation Commission notes that Patterson lived at No. 331 until his death.

   “…erected some time between 1802 and 1810, with a store at street level ... William Patterson, a grocer, who lived at No. 329 over his store…”

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

2. 1936

   June 18

   Berenice Abbott photographs the corner grocery

   The photographer Berenice Abbott captured this corner store on June 18, 1936. In her picture a schoolboy in a tie sits on the cut-stone curb while a woman reaches up to drop a letter into a mailbox. Christopher Street runs one-way in the opposite direction from today. The picture is now in the New York Public Library collection.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

3. 1997

   The Bleecker Street Grocery closes after nearly a century as a corner food store

   Nicola La Rocca ran a fruit stand here at the turn of the twentieth century, and the corner remained a grocery for close to a hundred years. Locals knew it by the metal sign reading FANCY FRUITS DAIRY. As rents rose with the arrival of trendy shops, it ended in 1997 and a quick succession of businesses followed, among them Bronca Pizza and a fast-food deli.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

Further reading

• The 200-Year Old Grocery Store at No. 329 Bleecker StreetDaytonian in Manhattan
• Then & Now photos: 329 Bleecker Street (aka 93 Christopher Street)Village Preservation: Greenwich Village Then & Now
• Three ways of looking at 329 Bleecker StreetEphemeral New York

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• 329 Bleecker Street4 entries
• 335 Bleecker Street1 entry
• 89 Christopher Street1 entry
• 341 Bleecker Street1 entry
• 87 Christopher Street2 entries
• 343 Bleecker Street1 entry

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