Greenwich Village Cheese Shop Shutters After 36 Years

GREENWICH VILLAGE — Vincent Campanelli leaned against a sink in the back room of Joe’s Dairy Saturday afternoon, washing fist-sized hunks of smoked mozzarella cheese for the last time.

Campanelli and his brother, the principal owner of Joe’s, decided earlier this week to close the store, which has been a landmark of the downtown neighborhood since it opened on Jan. 3, 1977.

The cheese shop’s demise is not complicated, or particularly dramatic…

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