⁴ᴷ⁶⁰ Walking NYC: Bleecker Street from The Bowery to Abingdon Square

May 15, 2024 - 7:20 PM
61°F / 16°C
(light rain)
Walking westbound on the entire length of Bleecker Street in the NoHo, Greenwich Village, and West Village neighborhoods of New York City, from The Bowery to Abingdon Square. Filmed with GoPro Hero 12.
Highlights:
00:00 - Walking westbound on Bleecker Street
01:12 - The Sheen Center for Thought and Culture
02:19 - Bleecker Street Subway Station, Mulberry North apartment building
05:17 - Crossing Broadway
06:14 - John A. Paulson Center (New York University)
13:14 - Little Red Square, crossing Sixth Avenue
14:18 - Father Demo Square
15:09 - Our Lady of Pompeii Church
18:35 - Bleecker Street Pizza, crossing Seventh Avenue
24:23 - "The Family" by Chaim Gross, Bleecker Playground
26:14 - Arthur W. Strickler Triangle
26:50 - Abingdon Square
From Wikipedia:
"Bleecker Street is an east-west street in the New York City borough of Manhattan. It is most famous today as a Greenwich Village nightclub district. The street connects a neighborhood today popular for music venues and comedy, but which was once a major center for American bohemia. 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 ran.
Bleecker Street connects Abingdon Square (the intersection of Eighth Avenue and Hudson Street), in the West Village, to Bowery, in the East Village and NoHo."

[@Papermac]

Quite a contrast with Beverly Hills, where every store appears to be bordered up these days.

[@walkingdrivingincognito]

Interesting, I had no idea things were that bad over there. I've actually never been to L.A. before. Yes, over in this neighborhood, things seem to be pretty lively, it's a big nightlife area and it's close to NYU. But in Midtown Manhattan, you still do occasionally see some vacant storefronts on a few blocks.