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Coordinates: 40°43′05″N 74°00′29″W / 40.718°N 74.008°W | |
Country | United States |
State | New York |
City | New York City |
Borough | Manhattan |
Community District | Manhattan 1 [1] |
Area | |
• Total | 2.35 km2 (0.909 sq mi) |
Population (2010)
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• Total | 42,742 |
• Density | 18,000/km2 (47,000/sq mi) |
Economics | |
• Median income | $196,692 |
ZIP Codes | 10007, 10013 |
Area codes | 212, 332, 646, and 917 |
Tribeca ( /traɪˈbɛkə/ try-BEK-ə), originally written as TriBeCa, is a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan in New York City. Its name is a syllabic abbreviation of "Triangle Below Canal Street". [3] The "triangle" (more accurately a quadrilateral) is bounded by Canal Street, West Street, Broadway, and Chambers Street. By the 2010s, a common marketing tactic was to extend Tribeca's southern boundary to either Vesey or Murray Streets to increase the appeal of property listings. [4]
The neighborhood began as farmland, then was a residential neighborhood in the early 19th century, before becoming a mercantile area centered on produce, dry goods, and textiles, and then transitioning to artists and then actors, models, entrepreneurs, and other celebrities. The neighborhood is home to the Tribeca Festival, which was created in response to the September 11 attacks, to reinvigorate the neighborhood and downtown after the destruction caused by the terrorist attacks. [5]
Tribeca is part of Manhattan Community District 1, and its primary ZIP Codes are 10007 and 10013. [1] It is patrolled by the 1st Precinct of the New York City Police Department.
Tribeca is one of a number of neighborhoods in New York City whose names are syllabic abbreviations or acronyms, including SoHo (South of Houston Street), NoHo (North of Houston Street), Nolita (North of Little Italy), NoMad (North of Madison Square), DUMBO (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass), and BoCoCa, the last of which is actually a collection of neighborhoods ( Boerum Hill, Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens).
The name "Tribeca" was coined in the early 1970s and originally applied to the narrower area bounded by Broadway and Canal, Lispenard, and Church Streets, which appears to be a triangle on city planning maps. Residents of this area formed the TriBeCa Artists' Co-op in filing legal documents connected to a 1973 zoning dispute. [6] An April 1976 article in The New York Times described that residents had used such names as "Lo Cal" and "So So" for the neighborhood, and that the City Planning Commission had established the name and that it covered "Canal Street on the north, Barclay Street on the south, West Street, and Broadway on the east". [7] According to a local historian, the name had been misconstrued by the newspaper reporter as applying to a much larger area, which is how it came to be the name of the current neighborhood. [6]
The area now known as Tribeca was farmed by Dutch settlers to New Amsterdam, prominently Roeleff Jansen (who obtained the land patent, called Dominie's Brouwery, from Wouter van Twiller in 1636) and his wife Anneke Jans who later married Everardus Bogardus. The land stayed with the family until 1670 when the deed was signed over to Col. Francis Lovelace. In 1674 the Dutch took possession of the area until the English reclaimed the land a year later. In 1674, representing the Duke of York, Governor Andros took possession of the land. [8]
Tribeca was later part of the large tract of land given to Trinity Church by Queen Anne in 1705. In 1807, the church built St. John's Chapel on Varick Street and then laid out St. John's Park, bounded by Laight Street, Varick Street, Ericsson Place, and Hudson Street. The church also built Hudson Square, a development of brick houses that surrounded the park, which would become the model for Gramercy Park. The area was among the first residential neighborhoods developed in New York City beyond the city's colonial boundaries, and remained primarily residential until the 1840s. [5]
Several streets in the area are named after Anthony Lispenard Bleecker and the Lispenard family. Beach Street was created in the late 18th century and was the first street on or adjacent to the farm of Anthony Lispenard Bleecker, which was just south of what is now Canal Street; the name of the street is a corruption of the name of Paul Bache, a son-in-law of Anthony Lispenard. [9] [10] Lispenard Street in Tribeca is named for the Lispenard family, [11] and Bleecker Street in NoHo was named for Anthony Lispenard Bleecker. [11]
During the 1840s and then continuing after the American Civil War, shipping in New York City – which then consisted only of Manhattan – shifted in large part from the East River and the area around South Street to the Hudson River, where the longer piers could more easily handle the larger ships which were then coming into use. In addition, the dredging of the sand bars which lay across the entrance to New York Harbor from the Atlantic Ocean made it easier for ships to navigate to the piers on the Hudson, rather than use the "back door" via the East River to the piers there. [12] [13] Later, the Hudson River piers also received freight via railroad cars ferried across the river from New Jersey. [14]
The increased shipping encouraged the expansion of the Washington Market – a wholesale produce market that opened in 1813 as "Bear Market" – from the original market buildings to buildings throughout its neighborhood, taking over houses and warehouses to use for the storage of produce, including butter, cheese, and eggs. [13] [5] In the mid-19th century, the neighborhood was the center of the dry goods and textile industries in the city, and St. John's Park was turned into a freight depot. [5] Later, the area also featured fireworks outlets, pets stores, radios – which were clustered in a district that was displaced by the building of the World Trade Center – sporting goods, shoes, and church supplies. [14] By the mid-19th century, the area transformed into a commercial center, with large numbers of store and loft buildings constructed along Broadway in the 1850s and 1860s.
Development in the area was further spurred by New York City Subway construction, namely the extension of the IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line (today's 1, 2, and 3 trains), which opened for service in 1918, and the accompanying extension of Seventh Avenue and the widening of Varick Street during subway construction in 1914, both of resulted in better access to the area for vehicles and for subway riders. The area was also served by the IRT Ninth Avenue Line, an elevated train line on Greenwich Street demolished in 1940.
After the construction of the Holland Tunnel from 1920 to 1927 and the transition of freight shipping from ships and railroads to trucks, [15] the truck traffic generated by the market and other businesses caused considerable congestion in the area. This provoked the building between 1929 and 1951 of the Miller Highway, an elevated roadway that came to be called the West Side Highway, the purpose of which was to handle through automobile traffic, which thus did not have to deal with the truck congestion at street level. Because of a policy of "deferred maintenance", the elevated structure began to fall apart in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and the highway was shut down in 1973. The roadway project planned to replace it, called Westway, was fought by neighborhood activists, and was eventually killed by environmental concerns. Instead, West Street was rebuilt to handle through traffic. [13] [5]
By the 1960s, Tribeca's industrial base had all but vanished, and the produce market moved to Hunts Point in the Bronx in the 1960s. The city put an urban renewal plan into effect, which involved the demolition of many old buildings, with the intent of building high-rise residential towers, office buildings, and schools. Some of these were constructed, including Independence Plaza in 1975 on Washington Street, the Borough of Manhattan Community College in 1980, and Washington Market Park in 1981. [5] Some warehouse buildings were converted to residential use, and lofts began to be utilized by artists, who lived and worked in their spaces, a model which had been pioneered in nearby SoHo. [13] In the early 1970s, a couple of years after artists in SoHo were able to legalize their live/work situation, artist and resident organizations in the area to the south, then known as Washington Market or the Lower West Side, sought to gain similar zoning status for their neighborhood. One of the neighborhood groups called themselves the "Triangle Below Canal Block Association", and, as activists had done in SoHo, shortened the group's name to the Tribeca Block Association. The Tribeca name came to be applied to the area south of Canal Street, between Broadway and West Street, extending south to – as variously defined – Chambers, Vesey, [16] [17] [18] or Murray Street. [5]
In 1996, the Tribeca Open Artist Studio Tour was founded as a non-profit, artist-run organization with the mission to empower the working artists of Tribeca while providing an educational opportunity for the public. For 15 years, the annual free walking tour through artist studios in Tribeca has allowed people to get a unique glimpse into the lives of Tribeca's best creative talent. [19] Tribeca suffered both physically and financially after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, but government grants and incentives helped the area rebound fairly quickly. [20] The Tribeca Film Festival was established to help contribute to the long-term recovery of lower Manhattan after 9/11. The festival also celebrates New York City as a major filmmaking center. The mission of the film festival is "to enable the international film community and the general public to experience the power of film by redefining the film festival experience." Tribeca is a popular filming location for movies and television shows.
By the early 21st century, Tribeca became one of Manhattan's most fashionable and desirable neighborhoods, well known for its celebrity residents. Its streets teem with art galleries, boutique shops, restaurants, and bars. [5] In 2006, Forbes magazine ranked its 10013 zip code as New York City's most expensive (however, the adjacent, low-income neighborhood of Chinatown, also uses the 10013 zip code). [21] As of 2010, [update] Tribeca was the safest neighborhood in New York City, according to NYPD and CompStat statistics. [22] In the 2010s, several skyscrapers were completed, including 30 Park Place (containing the Four Seasons Hotel New York Downtown), 56 Leonard Street, and 111 Murray Street. [18]
Census | Pop. | Note | %± |
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1950 | 782 | — | |
1960 | 382 | −51.2% | |
1970 | 370 | −3.1% | |
1980 | 5,949 | 1,507.8% | |
1990 | 8,386 | 41.0% | |
2000 | 10,395 | 24.0% | |
2010 | 17,056 | 64.1% |
For census purposes, the New York City government classifies Tribeca as part of a larger neighborhood tabulation area called SoHo-TriBeCa-Civic Center-Little Italy. [23] Based on data from the 2010 United States Census, the population of SoHo-TriBeCa-Civic Center-Little Italy was 42,742, a change of 5,985 (14%) from the 36,757 counted in 2000. Covering an area of 581.62 acres (235.37 ha), the neighborhood had a population density of 73.5 inhabitants per acre (47,000/sq mi; 18,200/km2). [2] The racial makeup of the neighborhood was 66.1% (28,250) White, 2.2% (934) African American, 0.1% (30) Native American, 22.2% (9,478) Asian, 0% (11) Pacific Islander, 0.4% (171) from other races, and 2.6% (1,098) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 6.5% (2,770) of the population. [24]
The entirety of Community District 1, which comprises Tribeca and other Lower Manhattan neighborhoods, had 63,383 inhabitants as of NYC Health's 2018 [update] Community Health Profile, with an average life expectancy of 85.8 years. [25]: 2, 20 This is higher than the median life expectancy of 81.2 for all New York City neighborhoods. [26]: 53 (PDF p. 84) Most inhabitants are young to middle-aged adults: half (50%) are between the ages of 25–44, while 14% are between 0–17, and 18% between 45–64. The ratio of college-aged and elderly residents was lower, at 11% and 7%, respectively. [25]: 2
As of 2017, [update] the median household income in Community Districts 1 and 2 was $144,878. [27] In 2018, an estimated 9% of Tribeca and Lower Manhattan residents lived in poverty, compared to 14% in all of Manhattan and 20% in all of New York City. One in twenty-five residents (4%) were unemployed, compared to 7% in Manhattan and 9% in New York City. Rent burden, or the percentage of residents who have difficulty paying their rent, is 38% in Tribeca and Lower Manhattan, compared to the boroughwide and citywide rates of 45% and 51%, respectively. Based on this calculation, as of 2018, [update] Tribeca and Lower Manhattan are considered high-income relative to the rest of the city and not gentrifying. [25]: 7
Tribeca is dominated by former industrial buildings that have been converted into residential buildings and lofts, similar to those of the neighboring SoHo-Cast Iron Historic District. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the neighborhood was a center of the textile/cotton trade.
Notable buildings in the neighborhoods include the historic neo-Renaissance Textile Building, designed by Henry J. Hardenbergh and built in 1901, and the Powell Building, a designated Landmark on Hudson Street, which was designed by Carrère and Hastings and built in 1892. [28] Other notable buildings include the New York Telephone Company building at 140 West Street, between Vesey and Barclay, with its Mayan-inspired Art Deco motif, and the former New York Mercantile Exchange at 6 Harrison Street.
During the late 1960s and 1970s, abandoned and inexpensive Tribeca lofts became hot-spot residences for young artists and their families because of the seclusion of lower Manhattan and the vast living space. Jim Stratton, a Tribeca resident since this period, wrote the 1977 nonfiction book entitled Pioneering in the Urban Wilderness, detailing his experiences renovating lower Manhattan warehouses into residences.
Four New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission-designated four historic districts within Tribeca in 1991 and 1992, as well as an extension of one in 2002:
Tribeca and Lower Manhattan are patrolled by the 1st Precinct of the NYPD, located at 16 Ericsson Place. [38] The 1st Precinct ranked 63rd safest out of 69 patrol areas for per-capita crime in 2010. Though the number of crimes is low compared to other NYPD precincts, the residential population is also much lower. [39] As of 2018, [update] with a non-fatal assault rate of 24 per 100,000 people, Tribeca and Lower Manhattan's rate of violent crimes per capita is less than that of the city as a whole. The incarceration rate of 152 per 100,000 people is lower than that of the city as a whole. [25]: 8
The 1st Precinct has a lower crime rate than in the 1990s, with crimes across all categories having decreased by 86.3% between 1990 and 2018. The precinct reported 1 murder, 23 rapes, 80 robberies, 61 felony assaults, 85 burglaries, 1,085 grand larcenies, and 21 grand larcenies auto in 2018. [40]
Tribeca is served by two New York City Fire Department (FDNY) fire stations. [41] Engine Company 7/Ladder Company 1/Battalion 1 is located at 100 Duane Street [42] while Ladder Company 8, which appears in the Ghostbusters films, [30] is located at 14 North Moore Street. [43]
As of 2018, [update] preterm births and births to teenage mothers are less common in Tribeca and Lower Manhattan than in other places citywide. In Tribeca and Lower Manhattan, there were 77 preterm births per 1,000 live births (compared to 87 per 1,000 citywide), and 2.2 births to teenage mothers per 1,000 live births (compared to 19.3 per 1,000 citywide), though the teenage birth rate is based on a small sample size. [25]: 11 Tribeca and Lower Manhattan have a low population of residents who are uninsured. In 2018, this population of uninsured residents was estimated to be 4%, less than the citywide rate of 12%, though this was based on a small sample size. [25]: 14
The concentration of fine particulate matter, the deadliest type of air pollutant, in Tribeca and Lower Manhattan is 0.0096 milligrams per cubic metre (9.6×10−9 oz/cu ft), more than the city average. [25]: 9 Sixteen percent of Tribeca and Lower Manhattan residents are smokers, which is more than the city average of 14% of residents being smokers. [25]: 13 In Tribeca and Lower Manhattan, 4% of residents are obese, 3% are diabetic, and 15% have high blood pressure, the lowest rates in the city—compared to the citywide averages of 24%, 11%, and 28% respectively. [25]: 16 In addition, 5% of children are obese, the lowest rate in the city, compared to the citywide average of 20%. [25]: 12
Ninety-six percent of residents eat some fruits and vegetables every day, which is more than the city's average of 87%. In 2018, 88% of residents described their health as "good," "very good", or "excellent", more than the city's average of 78%. [25]: 13 For every supermarket in Tribeca and Lower Manhattan, there are 6 bodegas. [25]: 10
The nearest major hospital is NewYork-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital in the Civic Center area. [44] [45]
Tribeca is located within two primary ZIP Codes. Most of the neighborhood is covered by 10013, but the southernmost blocks are located in 10007, and the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building is located in 10278. [46] The United States Postal Service operates two post offices near Tribeca: the Federal Plaza Station at 26 Federal Plaza [47] and the Canal Street Station at 350 Canal Street. [48]
Tribeca and Lower Manhattan generally have a higher rate of college-educated residents than the rest of the city as of 2018. [update] The vast majority of residents age 25 and older (84%) have a college education or higher, while 4% have less than a high school education and 12% are high school graduates or have some college education. By contrast, 64% of Manhattan residents and 43% of city residents have a college education or higher. [25]: 6 The percentage of Tribeca and Lower Manhattan students excelling in math rose from 61% in 2000 to 80% in 2011, and reading achievement increased from 66% to 68% during the same time period. [49]
Tribeca and Lower Manhattan's rate of elementary school student absenteeism is lower than the rest of New York City. In Tribeca and Lower Manhattan, 6% of elementary school students missed twenty or more days per school year, less than the citywide average of 20%. [26]: 24 (PDF p. 55) [25]: 6 Additionally, 96% of high school students in Tribeca and Lower Manhattan graduate on time, more than the citywide average of 75%. [25]: 6
The New York City Department of Education operates the following public schools nearby: [50]
The New York Public Library (NYPL) operates two branches nearby. The New Amsterdam branch is located at 9 Murray Street near Broadway. It was established on the ground floor of an office building in 1989. [53] The Battery Park City branch is located at 175 North End Avenue near Murray Street. Completed in 2010, the two-story branch is NYPL's first LEED-certified branch. [54]
Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal had high profiles in the district's revival when they co-produced the dramatic television anthology series TriBeCa in 1993 and co-founded the annual Tribeca Film Festival in 2002. De Niro also claimed ownership of all domain names incorporating the text "Tribeca" for domain names with any content related to film festivals. In particular, he had a dispute with the owner of the website tribeca.net. [117]
Although Wizards of Waverly Place includes a fictional "Tribeca Prep", exterior shots were filmed at P.S. 40 on East 20th Street, between First Avenue and Second Avenue in midtown Gramercy Park. [118] In addition, a fictional "Tribeca High School" appears in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode " Granting Immunity." Local radio station WHTZ's studio is located here. In the third book of the Witches of East End series, Winds of Salem, the Oracle, an almighty god from Asgard, lives in Tribeca.
The Subaru Tribeca, which went into production in 2005, and was discontinued being sold in the United States in 2012, was an automobile named after the neighborhood. [119]
TriBeCa's famed Ladder 8 firehouse — used as the headquarters for the ghoul hunting troupe in the classic 1984 comedy — has an updated Ghostbusters emblem painted on the sidewalk outside its 12 N. Moore Street firehouse.
The exterior of the building was used for the 1984 film and its 1989 sequel, as well as an episode of Seinfeld and the Will Smith movie Hitch.
Ms. Anderson with her dog Willie near her home in TriBeCa.
It's so hard that it makes me want to cry,' Karole Armitage said on a recent Sunday morning at her home in TriBeCa.
Seated in the kitchen of his TriBeCa rehearsal studio, which occupies an entire floor of the converted warehouse where he and his partner, Mimi Johnson, have lived since 1979, Mr. Ashley, 76, recounted how a friend had once revealed a sordid past.
It was only about 3.5 years ago that English-born movie actor Paul Bettany (A Beautiful Mind, The Da Vinci Code, A Knight's Tale) and Brooklyn-bred Academy Award winner Jennifer Connelly (A Beautiful Mind, Requiem For A Dream, Blood Diamond) paid $6,920,000 for a full floor loft-type penthouse apartment on the edge of New York City's star-stocked TriBeCa neighborhood.
Ms. Betts lives in TriBeCa during the week with her husband, the journalist Chip Brown, and their children, India, 10, and Oliver, 15, and has a consulting company that provides editorial content for luxury brands.
Robert Bingham, the author of a collection of short stories and a member of the prominent Kentucky newspaper publishing family, died Sunday at his home in TriBeCa in Manhattan. He was 33.
An avowed recluse who resists forays north of Union Square, Mr. Bleckner was the host of a benefit for Community Research Initiative on AIDS last week in the minimalist Xanadu that is his home, a former loft building that he owns in TriBeCa
Yet all the signs suggest he's no longer the fringe personality he once was. He, his wife and two young sons live in a spacious loft in TriBeCa, and he recently rented a suite of offices for Ararat Productions, his own production company (named after the mountain where Noah's Ark landed).
Meandering through the streets of his Tribeca neighborhood in jeans and shell-toe Adidas, Burns puts on no airs.
Now, after a decade in which Carey has been the world's most popular female vocalist, her albums and singles selling more than one hundred and fifty million copies; now, after a new contract with Virgin Records that will bring her nearly one hundred and twenty million dollars for her next five CDs; now, after the September opening of her first movie, the semiautobiographical Glitter; and now, after completion of a spacious triplex in Tribeca that harks back to an era Carey dreams about—the golden age of Hollywood.
The Ice House, at 27 North Moore Street, is downtown's poster child for the pitfalls of luxury conversion. Its high-profile residents, including Billy Crystal, sportscaster Warner Wolf, and Alexis Stewart (yes, that's Martha's daughter), all of whom reportedly have $2 million penthouses, could not get the principals of 27 North Moore Associates LLC to fix a long list of problems, ranging from buckling floors to plumbing problems.
Mr. Kerne goes on to hold forth on one of TriBeCa's favorite subjects, the penthouse's owner, Robert De Niro. If there is a fascination with Mr. De Niro in the area, it is perhaps understandable: seldom has one person become so linked to a neighborhood's identity. The reclusive actor has become an anomaly – a Hollywood star whose mystique helps function as an engine for urban economic development.
A brick Georgian was never my dream house,' insists the artist Laurie Simmons.... And yet, the first time she walked through the front door of the near-textbook brick Georgian in northwestern Connecticut that she and her husband, the artist Carroll Dunham, eventually came to own, 'something came over me,' she recalls.... Technically, the house is a weekend house – the couple maintains a loft in TriBeCa.
The 24-by-17-foot 'children's wing' at the back of the main level still has its west-facing window but no longer has the sibling-friendly room divider that was in place when Lena, who moved out in 2012, and her younger sister, Grace, who is in her final year of college, shared it and the green-tile bathroom. The sisters and their respective bedrooms figured prominently in Tiny Furniture.
Although Kyle Eastwood says the name has disadvantages as well as advantages, the fact remains that it's not a bad name at all.... He lives in TriBeCa with his wife, the Spanish actress Laura Gomez, and their 5-year-old daughter, Graylen.
When he is not in front of the camera, writing or selling, Mr. Eklund likes to relax with his husband, Derek Kaplan, 41, an abstract painter, and their miniature dachshunds, Mini Mouse and Fritzy, who all live in a three-bedroom loft in TriBeCa.
The psychotherapist Mark Epstein is known for lucidly mapping the ways in which Buddhism can enrich Western approaches to psychology.... Mr. Epstein, 64, lives in TriBeCa with his wife, the sculptor Arlene Shechet, and he sees patients in the same building, in the unassuming basement office in which we spoke on a frigid afternoon in late December. The office's walls, a pale blue, are unadorned.
Real Housewife of New York star Bethenny Frankel has officially sold her much-discussed Tribeca apartment—and according to one of her brokers, fellow Bravo reality personality Fredrik Eklund, finding a buyer didn't take long.
In recent years, James Gandolfini spent much of his time in Hollywood, but about a week ago, he was back on the quiet street in TriBeCa where he once lived, not to stay — his place was rented out — but just to say hello to his friends, the doormen.
A little more than five years ago, Savannah Guthrie became a host of the Today show on NBC.... The family lives in TriBeCa.
James Havard, an artist, sleeps in the barbershop he purchased here for his TriBeCa loft.
Mr. Holman, who has a stubble of a beard and wears large round glasses and a velveteen blazer, cycled in from his TriBeCa loft on an old Raleigh seven-speed on this morning
The 4,400 square-foot penthouse at the River Lofts at 416 Washington Street in Tribeca that Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin kept as a Manhattan landing spot before their conscious uncoupling has yet to find a buyer.
The last afternoon I spent with Toni Morrison was at her loft in TriBeCa. It was one of the biggest apartments I have seen in the city.
At 11.30 p.m., he phoned Mr. Parsons at his home in TriBeCa and made his final gambit for board seats. He then continued talking to his partners until after 2 in the morning.
By 1 a.m., everyone was exhausted. Before heading to her home in TriBeCa, Ms. Poehler expressed regret over the relative tameness of the evening.
In 1997, she founded Jane magazine to cater to the aging Sassy demographic. Ms. Pratt lives in a loft in TriBeCa with her daughter, Charlotte, 11, and two dogs, Balloon, a Shih Tzu-poodle mix, and Lemon, a Maltese.
For more than 20 years Rammellzee lived in a studio loft in TriBeCa that he called the Battle Station, where the walls and ceiling were virtually encrusted with his sculpture and other artwork, including toylike wheeled versions of letters that appeared to be armored and able to fly into combat.
These color photographs – many taken from the window of Mr. Reed's TriBeCa apartment – are ordinary to the point of anonymity.
Richards, whose apartment in TriBeCa escaped damage from the storm, said this was 'what anyone in my position should do.'
When John Shaw, painter, awakes in the morning he sees New York City upside down. Mr. Shaw, originally from southwestern Virginia, had decided that the bedroom in his Tribeca loft was too dark, so rather than paying the expenses of having a window installed, he drilled a small, unobtrusive hole in the wall.
At home in New York, Mr. Shears wrote dozens of songs, but felt unfulfilled. On a whim he went to Berlin to recharge and spent last spring partying there. "I love all-nighters and going out and listening to D.J.'s and staring into strobe lights,' he said, in an interview in his well-appointed TriBeCa loft, loaded with books and records and found art discovered by his boyfriend, an artist.
JUST before he turned 30, Duncan Sheik, the singer and composer, bought a 2,400-square-foot bare loft in a condominium at 195 Hudson Street, a block below Canal Street.... A few weeks ago, he put his TriBeCa loft on the market for $2.925 million with the help of Nora Ariffin, a broker at Halstead Property.
For much of the past year, Sunday was just another tough workday for George Steel, 45, the general manager and artistic director of the New York City Opera, which recently moved out of Lincoln Center and underwent bitter negotiations with its unions, reaching a settlement last month.... Mr. Steel, who lives in TriBeCa, spends his free Sundays with his wife, Sarah Fels, a once and perhaps future product designer, and their two children, Anna, 6, and Alexander, 3.
'Gospel music was part of the natural progression in my interest in the mixture of African and European musical cultures,' Mr. Telson explained in his TriBeCa loft that doubles as a recording studio.
Nearly a decade after exchanging vows, the couple have proved themselves a kind of celebrity enigma. They live a relatively low-key life in Tribeca, which she fondly calls 'Triburbia,' and rarely display their love on red carpets or gush about each other publicly.
Given his work's deranged craft-project look – like the art version of a garage band – it is a surprise to find a small, good collection of early Americana in his TriBeCa loft. While many art seers view the 1975 Whitney exhibition of Mr. Tuttle's work, which scandalized critics and nearly dealt a death blow to his career, as a seminal moment for the artist and the art world, one might argue that both he and his world were just as affected by another talked-about Whitney show a year earlier, 'The Flowering of American Folk Art, 1776–1876.'
eil de Grasse Tyson, an astrophysicist and the Frederick P. Rose director of the Hayden Planetarium, is a big guy. He stands 6-foot-2 and has hands that can palm a basketball. He speaks in a booming baritone. In his TriBeCa loft, he ambles around a space with 14-foot ceilings.
ecilia Vicuña's current retrospective, About to Happen, has been promoted by curators far and wide as the 'first major, U.S. solo exhibition by the influential Chilean-born artist.'... 'Nobody came,' she said in an interview last month from her home in TriBeCa.
I'm about to set out on a long book tour, so I shall really miss my new husband, Mike Cohen. He is also a writer and we were married in April. He is totally gorgeous. We live in a part of New York called TriBeCa.
The question is, who decides what music should be?' the composer La Monte Young asked during a recent interview. "What is music, and why is it music, and how did music start?" Sitting in his cluttered loft in TriBeCa, Mr. Young had just been ruminating on the creation myths of Indian music, and continued on to briefly address marches, bagpipes and Dizzy Gillespie before arriving at the conclusion to this circuitous historical trajectory: his own Trio for Strings, from 1958.
From 2005 through 2014, Subaru made the Tribeca, a mid-sized SUV best remembered as one of the worst-selling cars in its category.... Perhaps naming the SUV after one of Manhattan's richest neighborhoods wasn't the best branding move.
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Coordinates: 40°43′05″N 74°00′29″W / 40.718°N 74.008°W | |
Country | United States |
State | New York |
City | New York City |
Borough | Manhattan |
Community District | Manhattan 1 [1] |
Area | |
• Total | 2.35 km2 (0.909 sq mi) |
Population (2010)
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• Total | 42,742 |
• Density | 18,000/km2 (47,000/sq mi) |
Economics | |
• Median income | $196,692 |
ZIP Codes | 10007, 10013 |
Area codes | 212, 332, 646, and 917 |
Tribeca ( /traɪˈbɛkə/ try-BEK-ə), originally written as TriBeCa, is a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan in New York City. Its name is a syllabic abbreviation of "Triangle Below Canal Street". [3] The "triangle" (more accurately a quadrilateral) is bounded by Canal Street, West Street, Broadway, and Chambers Street. By the 2010s, a common marketing tactic was to extend Tribeca's southern boundary to either Vesey or Murray Streets to increase the appeal of property listings. [4]
The neighborhood began as farmland, then was a residential neighborhood in the early 19th century, before becoming a mercantile area centered on produce, dry goods, and textiles, and then transitioning to artists and then actors, models, entrepreneurs, and other celebrities. The neighborhood is home to the Tribeca Festival, which was created in response to the September 11 attacks, to reinvigorate the neighborhood and downtown after the destruction caused by the terrorist attacks. [5]
Tribeca is part of Manhattan Community District 1, and its primary ZIP Codes are 10007 and 10013. [1] It is patrolled by the 1st Precinct of the New York City Police Department.
Tribeca is one of a number of neighborhoods in New York City whose names are syllabic abbreviations or acronyms, including SoHo (South of Houston Street), NoHo (North of Houston Street), Nolita (North of Little Italy), NoMad (North of Madison Square), DUMBO (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass), and BoCoCa, the last of which is actually a collection of neighborhoods ( Boerum Hill, Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens).
The name "Tribeca" was coined in the early 1970s and originally applied to the narrower area bounded by Broadway and Canal, Lispenard, and Church Streets, which appears to be a triangle on city planning maps. Residents of this area formed the TriBeCa Artists' Co-op in filing legal documents connected to a 1973 zoning dispute. [6] An April 1976 article in The New York Times described that residents had used such names as "Lo Cal" and "So So" for the neighborhood, and that the City Planning Commission had established the name and that it covered "Canal Street on the north, Barclay Street on the south, West Street, and Broadway on the east". [7] According to a local historian, the name had been misconstrued by the newspaper reporter as applying to a much larger area, which is how it came to be the name of the current neighborhood. [6]
The area now known as Tribeca was farmed by Dutch settlers to New Amsterdam, prominently Roeleff Jansen (who obtained the land patent, called Dominie's Brouwery, from Wouter van Twiller in 1636) and his wife Anneke Jans who later married Everardus Bogardus. The land stayed with the family until 1670 when the deed was signed over to Col. Francis Lovelace. In 1674 the Dutch took possession of the area until the English reclaimed the land a year later. In 1674, representing the Duke of York, Governor Andros took possession of the land. [8]
Tribeca was later part of the large tract of land given to Trinity Church by Queen Anne in 1705. In 1807, the church built St. John's Chapel on Varick Street and then laid out St. John's Park, bounded by Laight Street, Varick Street, Ericsson Place, and Hudson Street. The church also built Hudson Square, a development of brick houses that surrounded the park, which would become the model for Gramercy Park. The area was among the first residential neighborhoods developed in New York City beyond the city's colonial boundaries, and remained primarily residential until the 1840s. [5]
Several streets in the area are named after Anthony Lispenard Bleecker and the Lispenard family. Beach Street was created in the late 18th century and was the first street on or adjacent to the farm of Anthony Lispenard Bleecker, which was just south of what is now Canal Street; the name of the street is a corruption of the name of Paul Bache, a son-in-law of Anthony Lispenard. [9] [10] Lispenard Street in Tribeca is named for the Lispenard family, [11] and Bleecker Street in NoHo was named for Anthony Lispenard Bleecker. [11]
During the 1840s and then continuing after the American Civil War, shipping in New York City – which then consisted only of Manhattan – shifted in large part from the East River and the area around South Street to the Hudson River, where the longer piers could more easily handle the larger ships which were then coming into use. In addition, the dredging of the sand bars which lay across the entrance to New York Harbor from the Atlantic Ocean made it easier for ships to navigate to the piers on the Hudson, rather than use the "back door" via the East River to the piers there. [12] [13] Later, the Hudson River piers also received freight via railroad cars ferried across the river from New Jersey. [14]
The increased shipping encouraged the expansion of the Washington Market – a wholesale produce market that opened in 1813 as "Bear Market" – from the original market buildings to buildings throughout its neighborhood, taking over houses and warehouses to use for the storage of produce, including butter, cheese, and eggs. [13] [5] In the mid-19th century, the neighborhood was the center of the dry goods and textile industries in the city, and St. John's Park was turned into a freight depot. [5] Later, the area also featured fireworks outlets, pets stores, radios – which were clustered in a district that was displaced by the building of the World Trade Center – sporting goods, shoes, and church supplies. [14] By the mid-19th century, the area transformed into a commercial center, with large numbers of store and loft buildings constructed along Broadway in the 1850s and 1860s.
Development in the area was further spurred by New York City Subway construction, namely the extension of the IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line (today's 1, 2, and 3 trains), which opened for service in 1918, and the accompanying extension of Seventh Avenue and the widening of Varick Street during subway construction in 1914, both of resulted in better access to the area for vehicles and for subway riders. The area was also served by the IRT Ninth Avenue Line, an elevated train line on Greenwich Street demolished in 1940.
After the construction of the Holland Tunnel from 1920 to 1927 and the transition of freight shipping from ships and railroads to trucks, [15] the truck traffic generated by the market and other businesses caused considerable congestion in the area. This provoked the building between 1929 and 1951 of the Miller Highway, an elevated roadway that came to be called the West Side Highway, the purpose of which was to handle through automobile traffic, which thus did not have to deal with the truck congestion at street level. Because of a policy of "deferred maintenance", the elevated structure began to fall apart in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and the highway was shut down in 1973. The roadway project planned to replace it, called Westway, was fought by neighborhood activists, and was eventually killed by environmental concerns. Instead, West Street was rebuilt to handle through traffic. [13] [5]
By the 1960s, Tribeca's industrial base had all but vanished, and the produce market moved to Hunts Point in the Bronx in the 1960s. The city put an urban renewal plan into effect, which involved the demolition of many old buildings, with the intent of building high-rise residential towers, office buildings, and schools. Some of these were constructed, including Independence Plaza in 1975 on Washington Street, the Borough of Manhattan Community College in 1980, and Washington Market Park in 1981. [5] Some warehouse buildings were converted to residential use, and lofts began to be utilized by artists, who lived and worked in their spaces, a model which had been pioneered in nearby SoHo. [13] In the early 1970s, a couple of years after artists in SoHo were able to legalize their live/work situation, artist and resident organizations in the area to the south, then known as Washington Market or the Lower West Side, sought to gain similar zoning status for their neighborhood. One of the neighborhood groups called themselves the "Triangle Below Canal Block Association", and, as activists had done in SoHo, shortened the group's name to the Tribeca Block Association. The Tribeca name came to be applied to the area south of Canal Street, between Broadway and West Street, extending south to – as variously defined – Chambers, Vesey, [16] [17] [18] or Murray Street. [5]
In 1996, the Tribeca Open Artist Studio Tour was founded as a non-profit, artist-run organization with the mission to empower the working artists of Tribeca while providing an educational opportunity for the public. For 15 years, the annual free walking tour through artist studios in Tribeca has allowed people to get a unique glimpse into the lives of Tribeca's best creative talent. [19] Tribeca suffered both physically and financially after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, but government grants and incentives helped the area rebound fairly quickly. [20] The Tribeca Film Festival was established to help contribute to the long-term recovery of lower Manhattan after 9/11. The festival also celebrates New York City as a major filmmaking center. The mission of the film festival is "to enable the international film community and the general public to experience the power of film by redefining the film festival experience." Tribeca is a popular filming location for movies and television shows.
By the early 21st century, Tribeca became one of Manhattan's most fashionable and desirable neighborhoods, well known for its celebrity residents. Its streets teem with art galleries, boutique shops, restaurants, and bars. [5] In 2006, Forbes magazine ranked its 10013 zip code as New York City's most expensive (however, the adjacent, low-income neighborhood of Chinatown, also uses the 10013 zip code). [21] As of 2010, [update] Tribeca was the safest neighborhood in New York City, according to NYPD and CompStat statistics. [22] In the 2010s, several skyscrapers were completed, including 30 Park Place (containing the Four Seasons Hotel New York Downtown), 56 Leonard Street, and 111 Murray Street. [18]
Census | Pop. | Note | %± |
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1950 | 782 | — | |
1960 | 382 | −51.2% | |
1970 | 370 | −3.1% | |
1980 | 5,949 | 1,507.8% | |
1990 | 8,386 | 41.0% | |
2000 | 10,395 | 24.0% | |
2010 | 17,056 | 64.1% |
For census purposes, the New York City government classifies Tribeca as part of a larger neighborhood tabulation area called SoHo-TriBeCa-Civic Center-Little Italy. [23] Based on data from the 2010 United States Census, the population of SoHo-TriBeCa-Civic Center-Little Italy was 42,742, a change of 5,985 (14%) from the 36,757 counted in 2000. Covering an area of 581.62 acres (235.37 ha), the neighborhood had a population density of 73.5 inhabitants per acre (47,000/sq mi; 18,200/km2). [2] The racial makeup of the neighborhood was 66.1% (28,250) White, 2.2% (934) African American, 0.1% (30) Native American, 22.2% (9,478) Asian, 0% (11) Pacific Islander, 0.4% (171) from other races, and 2.6% (1,098) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 6.5% (2,770) of the population. [24]
The entirety of Community District 1, which comprises Tribeca and other Lower Manhattan neighborhoods, had 63,383 inhabitants as of NYC Health's 2018 [update] Community Health Profile, with an average life expectancy of 85.8 years. [25]: 2, 20 This is higher than the median life expectancy of 81.2 for all New York City neighborhoods. [26]: 53 (PDF p. 84) Most inhabitants are young to middle-aged adults: half (50%) are between the ages of 25–44, while 14% are between 0–17, and 18% between 45–64. The ratio of college-aged and elderly residents was lower, at 11% and 7%, respectively. [25]: 2
As of 2017, [update] the median household income in Community Districts 1 and 2 was $144,878. [27] In 2018, an estimated 9% of Tribeca and Lower Manhattan residents lived in poverty, compared to 14% in all of Manhattan and 20% in all of New York City. One in twenty-five residents (4%) were unemployed, compared to 7% in Manhattan and 9% in New York City. Rent burden, or the percentage of residents who have difficulty paying their rent, is 38% in Tribeca and Lower Manhattan, compared to the boroughwide and citywide rates of 45% and 51%, respectively. Based on this calculation, as of 2018, [update] Tribeca and Lower Manhattan are considered high-income relative to the rest of the city and not gentrifying. [25]: 7
Tribeca is dominated by former industrial buildings that have been converted into residential buildings and lofts, similar to those of the neighboring SoHo-Cast Iron Historic District. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the neighborhood was a center of the textile/cotton trade.
Notable buildings in the neighborhoods include the historic neo-Renaissance Textile Building, designed by Henry J. Hardenbergh and built in 1901, and the Powell Building, a designated Landmark on Hudson Street, which was designed by Carrère and Hastings and built in 1892. [28] Other notable buildings include the New York Telephone Company building at 140 West Street, between Vesey and Barclay, with its Mayan-inspired Art Deco motif, and the former New York Mercantile Exchange at 6 Harrison Street.
During the late 1960s and 1970s, abandoned and inexpensive Tribeca lofts became hot-spot residences for young artists and their families because of the seclusion of lower Manhattan and the vast living space. Jim Stratton, a Tribeca resident since this period, wrote the 1977 nonfiction book entitled Pioneering in the Urban Wilderness, detailing his experiences renovating lower Manhattan warehouses into residences.
Four New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission-designated four historic districts within Tribeca in 1991 and 1992, as well as an extension of one in 2002:
Tribeca and Lower Manhattan are patrolled by the 1st Precinct of the NYPD, located at 16 Ericsson Place. [38] The 1st Precinct ranked 63rd safest out of 69 patrol areas for per-capita crime in 2010. Though the number of crimes is low compared to other NYPD precincts, the residential population is also much lower. [39] As of 2018, [update] with a non-fatal assault rate of 24 per 100,000 people, Tribeca and Lower Manhattan's rate of violent crimes per capita is less than that of the city as a whole. The incarceration rate of 152 per 100,000 people is lower than that of the city as a whole. [25]: 8
The 1st Precinct has a lower crime rate than in the 1990s, with crimes across all categories having decreased by 86.3% between 1990 and 2018. The precinct reported 1 murder, 23 rapes, 80 robberies, 61 felony assaults, 85 burglaries, 1,085 grand larcenies, and 21 grand larcenies auto in 2018. [40]
Tribeca is served by two New York City Fire Department (FDNY) fire stations. [41] Engine Company 7/Ladder Company 1/Battalion 1 is located at 100 Duane Street [42] while Ladder Company 8, which appears in the Ghostbusters films, [30] is located at 14 North Moore Street. [43]
As of 2018, [update] preterm births and births to teenage mothers are less common in Tribeca and Lower Manhattan than in other places citywide. In Tribeca and Lower Manhattan, there were 77 preterm births per 1,000 live births (compared to 87 per 1,000 citywide), and 2.2 births to teenage mothers per 1,000 live births (compared to 19.3 per 1,000 citywide), though the teenage birth rate is based on a small sample size. [25]: 11 Tribeca and Lower Manhattan have a low population of residents who are uninsured. In 2018, this population of uninsured residents was estimated to be 4%, less than the citywide rate of 12%, though this was based on a small sample size. [25]: 14
The concentration of fine particulate matter, the deadliest type of air pollutant, in Tribeca and Lower Manhattan is 0.0096 milligrams per cubic metre (9.6×10−9 oz/cu ft), more than the city average. [25]: 9 Sixteen percent of Tribeca and Lower Manhattan residents are smokers, which is more than the city average of 14% of residents being smokers. [25]: 13 In Tribeca and Lower Manhattan, 4% of residents are obese, 3% are diabetic, and 15% have high blood pressure, the lowest rates in the city—compared to the citywide averages of 24%, 11%, and 28% respectively. [25]: 16 In addition, 5% of children are obese, the lowest rate in the city, compared to the citywide average of 20%. [25]: 12
Ninety-six percent of residents eat some fruits and vegetables every day, which is more than the city's average of 87%. In 2018, 88% of residents described their health as "good," "very good", or "excellent", more than the city's average of 78%. [25]: 13 For every supermarket in Tribeca and Lower Manhattan, there are 6 bodegas. [25]: 10
The nearest major hospital is NewYork-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital in the Civic Center area. [44] [45]
Tribeca is located within two primary ZIP Codes. Most of the neighborhood is covered by 10013, but the southernmost blocks are located in 10007, and the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building is located in 10278. [46] The United States Postal Service operates two post offices near Tribeca: the Federal Plaza Station at 26 Federal Plaza [47] and the Canal Street Station at 350 Canal Street. [48]
Tribeca and Lower Manhattan generally have a higher rate of college-educated residents than the rest of the city as of 2018. [update] The vast majority of residents age 25 and older (84%) have a college education or higher, while 4% have less than a high school education and 12% are high school graduates or have some college education. By contrast, 64% of Manhattan residents and 43% of city residents have a college education or higher. [25]: 6 The percentage of Tribeca and Lower Manhattan students excelling in math rose from 61% in 2000 to 80% in 2011, and reading achievement increased from 66% to 68% during the same time period. [49]
Tribeca and Lower Manhattan's rate of elementary school student absenteeism is lower than the rest of New York City. In Tribeca and Lower Manhattan, 6% of elementary school students missed twenty or more days per school year, less than the citywide average of 20%. [26]: 24 (PDF p. 55) [25]: 6 Additionally, 96% of high school students in Tribeca and Lower Manhattan graduate on time, more than the citywide average of 75%. [25]: 6
The New York City Department of Education operates the following public schools nearby: [50]
The New York Public Library (NYPL) operates two branches nearby. The New Amsterdam branch is located at 9 Murray Street near Broadway. It was established on the ground floor of an office building in 1989. [53] The Battery Park City branch is located at 175 North End Avenue near Murray Street. Completed in 2010, the two-story branch is NYPL's first LEED-certified branch. [54]
Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal had high profiles in the district's revival when they co-produced the dramatic television anthology series TriBeCa in 1993 and co-founded the annual Tribeca Film Festival in 2002. De Niro also claimed ownership of all domain names incorporating the text "Tribeca" for domain names with any content related to film festivals. In particular, he had a dispute with the owner of the website tribeca.net. [117]
Although Wizards of Waverly Place includes a fictional "Tribeca Prep", exterior shots were filmed at P.S. 40 on East 20th Street, between First Avenue and Second Avenue in midtown Gramercy Park. [118] In addition, a fictional "Tribeca High School" appears in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode " Granting Immunity." Local radio station WHTZ's studio is located here. In the third book of the Witches of East End series, Winds of Salem, the Oracle, an almighty god from Asgard, lives in Tribeca.
The Subaru Tribeca, which went into production in 2005, and was discontinued being sold in the United States in 2012, was an automobile named after the neighborhood. [119]
TriBeCa's famed Ladder 8 firehouse — used as the headquarters for the ghoul hunting troupe in the classic 1984 comedy — has an updated Ghostbusters emblem painted on the sidewalk outside its 12 N. Moore Street firehouse.
The exterior of the building was used for the 1984 film and its 1989 sequel, as well as an episode of Seinfeld and the Will Smith movie Hitch.
Ms. Anderson with her dog Willie near her home in TriBeCa.
It's so hard that it makes me want to cry,' Karole Armitage said on a recent Sunday morning at her home in TriBeCa.
Seated in the kitchen of his TriBeCa rehearsal studio, which occupies an entire floor of the converted warehouse where he and his partner, Mimi Johnson, have lived since 1979, Mr. Ashley, 76, recounted how a friend had once revealed a sordid past.
It was only about 3.5 years ago that English-born movie actor Paul Bettany (A Beautiful Mind, The Da Vinci Code, A Knight's Tale) and Brooklyn-bred Academy Award winner Jennifer Connelly (A Beautiful Mind, Requiem For A Dream, Blood Diamond) paid $6,920,000 for a full floor loft-type penthouse apartment on the edge of New York City's star-stocked TriBeCa neighborhood.
Ms. Betts lives in TriBeCa during the week with her husband, the journalist Chip Brown, and their children, India, 10, and Oliver, 15, and has a consulting company that provides editorial content for luxury brands.
Robert Bingham, the author of a collection of short stories and a member of the prominent Kentucky newspaper publishing family, died Sunday at his home in TriBeCa in Manhattan. He was 33.
An avowed recluse who resists forays north of Union Square, Mr. Bleckner was the host of a benefit for Community Research Initiative on AIDS last week in the minimalist Xanadu that is his home, a former loft building that he owns in TriBeCa
Yet all the signs suggest he's no longer the fringe personality he once was. He, his wife and two young sons live in a spacious loft in TriBeCa, and he recently rented a suite of offices for Ararat Productions, his own production company (named after the mountain where Noah's Ark landed).
Meandering through the streets of his Tribeca neighborhood in jeans and shell-toe Adidas, Burns puts on no airs.
Now, after a decade in which Carey has been the world's most popular female vocalist, her albums and singles selling more than one hundred and fifty million copies; now, after a new contract with Virgin Records that will bring her nearly one hundred and twenty million dollars for her next five CDs; now, after the September opening of her first movie, the semiautobiographical Glitter; and now, after completion of a spacious triplex in Tribeca that harks back to an era Carey dreams about—the golden age of Hollywood.
The Ice House, at 27 North Moore Street, is downtown's poster child for the pitfalls of luxury conversion. Its high-profile residents, including Billy Crystal, sportscaster Warner Wolf, and Alexis Stewart (yes, that's Martha's daughter), all of whom reportedly have $2 million penthouses, could not get the principals of 27 North Moore Associates LLC to fix a long list of problems, ranging from buckling floors to plumbing problems.
Mr. Kerne goes on to hold forth on one of TriBeCa's favorite subjects, the penthouse's owner, Robert De Niro. If there is a fascination with Mr. De Niro in the area, it is perhaps understandable: seldom has one person become so linked to a neighborhood's identity. The reclusive actor has become an anomaly – a Hollywood star whose mystique helps function as an engine for urban economic development.
A brick Georgian was never my dream house,' insists the artist Laurie Simmons.... And yet, the first time she walked through the front door of the near-textbook brick Georgian in northwestern Connecticut that she and her husband, the artist Carroll Dunham, eventually came to own, 'something came over me,' she recalls.... Technically, the house is a weekend house – the couple maintains a loft in TriBeCa.
The 24-by-17-foot 'children's wing' at the back of the main level still has its west-facing window but no longer has the sibling-friendly room divider that was in place when Lena, who moved out in 2012, and her younger sister, Grace, who is in her final year of college, shared it and the green-tile bathroom. The sisters and their respective bedrooms figured prominently in Tiny Furniture.
Although Kyle Eastwood says the name has disadvantages as well as advantages, the fact remains that it's not a bad name at all.... He lives in TriBeCa with his wife, the Spanish actress Laura Gomez, and their 5-year-old daughter, Graylen.
When he is not in front of the camera, writing or selling, Mr. Eklund likes to relax with his husband, Derek Kaplan, 41, an abstract painter, and their miniature dachshunds, Mini Mouse and Fritzy, who all live in a three-bedroom loft in TriBeCa.
The psychotherapist Mark Epstein is known for lucidly mapping the ways in which Buddhism can enrich Western approaches to psychology.... Mr. Epstein, 64, lives in TriBeCa with his wife, the sculptor Arlene Shechet, and he sees patients in the same building, in the unassuming basement office in which we spoke on a frigid afternoon in late December. The office's walls, a pale blue, are unadorned.
Real Housewife of New York star Bethenny Frankel has officially sold her much-discussed Tribeca apartment—and according to one of her brokers, fellow Bravo reality personality Fredrik Eklund, finding a buyer didn't take long.
In recent years, James Gandolfini spent much of his time in Hollywood, but about a week ago, he was back on the quiet street in TriBeCa where he once lived, not to stay — his place was rented out — but just to say hello to his friends, the doormen.
A little more than five years ago, Savannah Guthrie became a host of the Today show on NBC.... The family lives in TriBeCa.
James Havard, an artist, sleeps in the barbershop he purchased here for his TriBeCa loft.
Mr. Holman, who has a stubble of a beard and wears large round glasses and a velveteen blazer, cycled in from his TriBeCa loft on an old Raleigh seven-speed on this morning
The 4,400 square-foot penthouse at the River Lofts at 416 Washington Street in Tribeca that Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin kept as a Manhattan landing spot before their conscious uncoupling has yet to find a buyer.
The last afternoon I spent with Toni Morrison was at her loft in TriBeCa. It was one of the biggest apartments I have seen in the city.
At 11.30 p.m., he phoned Mr. Parsons at his home in TriBeCa and made his final gambit for board seats. He then continued talking to his partners until after 2 in the morning.
By 1 a.m., everyone was exhausted. Before heading to her home in TriBeCa, Ms. Poehler expressed regret over the relative tameness of the evening.
In 1997, she founded Jane magazine to cater to the aging Sassy demographic. Ms. Pratt lives in a loft in TriBeCa with her daughter, Charlotte, 11, and two dogs, Balloon, a Shih Tzu-poodle mix, and Lemon, a Maltese.
For more than 20 years Rammellzee lived in a studio loft in TriBeCa that he called the Battle Station, where the walls and ceiling were virtually encrusted with his sculpture and other artwork, including toylike wheeled versions of letters that appeared to be armored and able to fly into combat.
These color photographs – many taken from the window of Mr. Reed's TriBeCa apartment – are ordinary to the point of anonymity.
Richards, whose apartment in TriBeCa escaped damage from the storm, said this was 'what anyone in my position should do.'
When John Shaw, painter, awakes in the morning he sees New York City upside down. Mr. Shaw, originally from southwestern Virginia, had decided that the bedroom in his Tribeca loft was too dark, so rather than paying the expenses of having a window installed, he drilled a small, unobtrusive hole in the wall.
At home in New York, Mr. Shears wrote dozens of songs, but felt unfulfilled. On a whim he went to Berlin to recharge and spent last spring partying there. "I love all-nighters and going out and listening to D.J.'s and staring into strobe lights,' he said, in an interview in his well-appointed TriBeCa loft, loaded with books and records and found art discovered by his boyfriend, an artist.
JUST before he turned 30, Duncan Sheik, the singer and composer, bought a 2,400-square-foot bare loft in a condominium at 195 Hudson Street, a block below Canal Street.... A few weeks ago, he put his TriBeCa loft on the market for $2.925 million with the help of Nora Ariffin, a broker at Halstead Property.
For much of the past year, Sunday was just another tough workday for George Steel, 45, the general manager and artistic director of the New York City Opera, which recently moved out of Lincoln Center and underwent bitter negotiations with its unions, reaching a settlement last month.... Mr. Steel, who lives in TriBeCa, spends his free Sundays with his wife, Sarah Fels, a once and perhaps future product designer, and their two children, Anna, 6, and Alexander, 3.
'Gospel music was part of the natural progression in my interest in the mixture of African and European musical cultures,' Mr. Telson explained in his TriBeCa loft that doubles as a recording studio.
Nearly a decade after exchanging vows, the couple have proved themselves a kind of celebrity enigma. They live a relatively low-key life in Tribeca, which she fondly calls 'Triburbia,' and rarely display their love on red carpets or gush about each other publicly.
Given his work's deranged craft-project look – like the art version of a garage band – it is a surprise to find a small, good collection of early Americana in his TriBeCa loft. While many art seers view the 1975 Whitney exhibition of Mr. Tuttle's work, which scandalized critics and nearly dealt a death blow to his career, as a seminal moment for the artist and the art world, one might argue that both he and his world were just as affected by another talked-about Whitney show a year earlier, 'The Flowering of American Folk Art, 1776–1876.'
eil de Grasse Tyson, an astrophysicist and the Frederick P. Rose director of the Hayden Planetarium, is a big guy. He stands 6-foot-2 and has hands that can palm a basketball. He speaks in a booming baritone. In his TriBeCa loft, he ambles around a space with 14-foot ceilings.
ecilia Vicuña's current retrospective, About to Happen, has been promoted by curators far and wide as the 'first major, U.S. solo exhibition by the influential Chilean-born artist.'... 'Nobody came,' she said in an interview last month from her home in TriBeCa.
I'm about to set out on a long book tour, so I shall really miss my new husband, Mike Cohen. He is also a writer and we were married in April. He is totally gorgeous. We live in a part of New York called TriBeCa.
The question is, who decides what music should be?' the composer La Monte Young asked during a recent interview. "What is music, and why is it music, and how did music start?" Sitting in his cluttered loft in TriBeCa, Mr. Young had just been ruminating on the creation myths of Indian music, and continued on to briefly address marches, bagpipes and Dizzy Gillespie before arriving at the conclusion to this circuitous historical trajectory: his own Trio for Strings, from 1958.
From 2005 through 2014, Subaru made the Tribeca, a mid-sized SUV best remembered as one of the worst-selling cars in its category.... Perhaps naming the SUV after one of Manhattan's richest neighborhoods wasn't the best branding move.
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