page_title: Bleecker Street
section_title: Notable places
hierarchical_section_title: Bleecker Street / Notable places
context_page_description: 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 to the Bowery and East Village.
caption: Florence Crittenton Mission, 21 Bleecker Street, 1893
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