Zito’s Bakery, a Family Legacy
<p><a href="https://thejewishmuseum.org/collection/artist/berenice-abbott-american-1898-1991" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Berenice Abbott</a> is best known for her black and white photographs of New York in transition in the 1930s. Sponsored by the Federal Art Project, a New Deal program, Abbott produced over 300 photographs of New York’s urban landscape, culminating in the book <em>Changing New York</em>, which was published to coincide with the 1939 New York World’s Fair. One of the photographs in this series is <a href="https://thejewishmuseum.org/collection/31100-zito-s-bakery-259-bleecker-street" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">an image of A. Zito & Sons</a>, the famous Italian bakery once located in Greenwich Village.</p>
<p>Antonio Zito emigrated from Palermo, Sicily with his wife Josephine, opening Zito’s bakery on Bleecker Street in 1924. The bakery was well known for their delicious crusty wheat bread, a staple at any Italian family’s Sunday dinner. Zito’s was run by Antonio and Josephine’s grandson, Anthony, at the time it closed its doors in 2004, after 80 years of producing a beloved New York staple.</p>
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