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  • Hotel in Bleecker Street, New York, for board and lodging and a few cents weekly over and above.

    Familiar Letters of William James III 1920

  • "R.R. is entreated to communicate with his niece at the old place in Bleecker Street, on business of the greatest importance."

    Queechy 1854

  • "Well," said he, gazing with more feeling than he cared to show into that sweet face, so innocent of apology-making, – "you shall promise me that you will not forget uncle Orrin, and the old house in Bleecker street."

    Queechy 1854

  • We have learned from the mayor there was a small gas leak at Sixth and Bleecker, which is the Greenwich Village area.

    CNN Transcript Jan 8, 2007 2007

  • The location from the mayor's office of Jersey City is that it is happening at Fourth Street and Bleecker, which is in Greenwich Village, downtown Manhattan.

    CNN Transcript Jan 8, 2007 2007

  • During the waning years of the previous millennium, many tens of thousands of these searches for recorded music were fulfilled at a shop in Manhattan's Greenwich Village known as "Bleecker Bob's," whether the quarry was "Bouncing Babies" by the Teardrop Explodes or "I Can't Get 'Bouncing Babies' by the Teardrop Explodes" by the Freshies or something else altogether, equally rare and perhaps overpriced.

    NYT > Home Page By ANDY NEWMAN 2012

  • During the waning years of the previous millennium, many tens of thousands of these searches for recorded music were fulfilled at a shop in Manhattan's Greenwich Village known as "Bleecker Bob's," whether the quarry was "Bouncing Babies" by the Teardrop Explodes or "I Can't Get 'Bouncing Babies' by the Teardrop Explodes" by the Freshies or something else altogether, equally rare and perhaps overpriced.

    NYT > Home Page By ANDY NEWMAN 2012

  • There were no products for sale, no fifty types of yoga mats, just a towel and some cut-off sweatpants to practice in, or a pair of white, cotton "yoga" pants that I could buy on Bleecker St. for five dollars.

    Eddie Stern: Sheetal Is a Punk Rocker, or How the NYT Wrecks Yoga Eddie Stern 2012

  • There were no products for sale, no fifty types of yoga mats, just a towel and some cut-off sweatpants to practice in, or a pair of white, cotton "yoga" pants that I could buy on Bleecker St. for five dollars.

    Eddie Stern: Sheetal Is a Punk Rocker, or How the NYT Wrecks Yoga Eddie Stern 2012

  • He told you he'd just seen Jay McInerney on Bleecker.

    Peter Mehlman: 80's New York Peter Mehlman 2011

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