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Not open enough for business on Bleecker

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Photos by Tequila Minsky

This — a slew of closed stores — is why the Greenwich-Village Chelsea Chamber of Commerce is spending the entire month of November on a campaign to spur holiday shopping on Bleecker St. The legendary thoroughfare has about a 14 percent vacancy rate for its commercial storefronts — which the chamber admits is a “sizeable” number of empty shops.