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Bleecker Street Cinema, ca. 1977. Bleecker Street Cinema began its tenure at 144 Bleecker Street in 1962. Filmmaker and social activist Lionel Rogosin founded the space and opened the 200-seat theatre to present his 1959 film Come Back, Africa. A spot for art house, avant-garde, and foreign films the cinema closed in 1990. For less than a year the venue reopened and featured gay adult films, before a brief return to art films, and eventual closure in 1991. The theatre was an influential cultural venue for the independent film scene in New York. It was also a location for a number of more commercial movies including Desperately Seeking Susan and Woody Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanors. Today the building has been split again with no. 144 housing a pharmacy and no. 146 a stationary store.
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144 Bleecker Street
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Mori Restaurant, Bleecker Street, November 21, 1935. 144 Bleecker Street was built 1832 as two townhouses (Nos. 144 and 146). Placido Mori established his Italian restaurant at No. 144 in 1883. In 1920, Mori enlisted then-unknown architect Raymond Hood — who would go on to design several New York skyscrapers, including Rockefeller Center — to create a new facade incorporating No. 146 for an expanded restaurant. As part of Hood’s compensation, he received an apartment upstairs. Mori closed in 1937 and the building was later occupied by another restaurant and a handful of activist organizations. Between 1962 and 1990, the building was home to the well-loved Bleecker Street Cinema. Today the building has been split up again with no. 144 housing a pharmacy and no. 146 a stationary store.
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144 Bleecker Street
Mori Restaurant; Changing New York The Mori Restaurant at 144 Bleecker Street (between Thompson Street and West Broadway) taken from the second floor of 145 Bleecker Street, across the street.
144 Bleecker Street
144 Bleecker Street
\[Bleecker Street Cinema, 144-146 Bleecker Street.] Originally Mori's Restaurant.
144 Bleecker Street
Manhattan: Bleecker Street - West Broadway. 144-6 Bleecker Street, adjoining the S.W. corner of West Broadway showing Mori's Restaurant, founded in 1884 by Placido Mori. These buildings were remodelled by Raymond Hood who also resided on Washington Square North, above the restaurant proprietors. This photo was reproduced on page 88 of the published volume "Changing New York." November 21, 1935 Berenice Abbott, photo Federal Art Project
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