Bleecker and Barrow Doors

Sherry Felix

A few doors on Bleecker, Grove and Barrow Streets in Greenwich Village. For Norm’s Thursday Doors, May 12.

The door to Ottomanelli’s butcher shop isn’t a great door, but the old time butcher shop is fabulous. We shop there often.

Ottomanelli ;amp; Sons, 285 Bleecker St. 11/22/2015
Ottomanelli & Sons, 285 Bleecker St. 11/22/2015

45 Grove Street was a one family mansion until the civil war. Then it was turned into a  rooming house, and another two stories were added. John Wilkes Booth came there and tried to talk another actor into joining his plot to abduct president Lincoln. During the Spanish American Wart it was a military hospital. After the turn of the century, John Read lived there. In 1923, Writer Hart Crane lived there.

45 Grove Street 11/22/2015
45 Grove Street 11/22/2015
41 Barrow Street 11/22/2015
41 Barrow Street 11/22/2015
68 Barrow Street 3/5/2016
68 Barrow Street 3/5/2016
63 Barrow Street 3/5/2016
63 Barrow Street 3/5/2016
63 Barrow Street 3/5/2016
Side view of 63 Barrow Street 3/5/2016

16 thoughts on “Bleecker and Barrow Doors”

  1. Dan Antion 2016-05-13 / 8:20 pm

    I like the blue door very much. The hardware store door is very inviting, too.

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    • Sherry Lynn Felix 2016-05-13 / 10:43 pm

      Thank you. There is a butcher shop, but no hardware store.

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      • Dan Antion 2016-05-14 / 6:30 am

        Oh, that must have been wishful thinking on my part. I thought the building behind the security gate was s hardware store. I guess I’ll pick up a few nice steaks 🙂

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    • Sherry Lynn Felix 2016-05-13 / 7:54 am

      Thank you. I like doors too, which is why I joined Norm’s Thursday Doors challenge.

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  3. circadianreflections 2016-05-12 / 11:26 pm

    Another great selection of doors! I love the blue door on Barrow St. I’m so excited and hope I see some fantastic doors while in NYC next week. It will be my first trip there!

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    • Sherry Lynn Felix 2016-05-13 / 7:25 am

      Hope you have a few days to spend. there is so much to see.

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  5. Norm 2.0 2016-05-12 / 12:42 pm

    Some interesting history in this collection. My fave is the 68 Barrow because blue, and the obviously reworked brick tells of a place with an interesting past. 🙂

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  6. Jet Eliot 2016-05-12 / 9:12 am

    I enjoyed this walk through Greenwich Village, the doors, the sidewalks, architecture, lifestyle. And your butcher shop is fantastic Sherry~~

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    • Sherry Lynn Felix 2016-05-12 / 9:30 am

      Thanks Jet. Unfortunately, bit by bit all the old stores are being replaced by boutiques and other expensive places. Ottomanelli’s is one of the last few holdouts.

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  7. CadyLuck Leedy 2016-05-12 / 9:06 am

    My favorite is 45 Bleecker St! Is it odd that the fire escape is on that side of the home on the next building?

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    • Sherry Lynn Felix 2016-05-12 / 9:23 am

      Thanks. Fire escapes were added in c. 1860 for tenements. They could be added to any side of an existing building.

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      • CadyLuck Leedy 2016-05-12 / 9:25 am

        Well I wonder how the fancy house liked that?

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