Tribeca
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Tribeca is a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan bound by Canal Street, West Street, Cortlandt Alley, Broadway, and Chambers Street. The name is a portmanteau composed of the words Triangle below Canal Street. Recent construction developments have attempted to expand Tribeca’s boundaries into the Financial District as far south as Vesey Street.
One of the oldest residential neighborhoods in Manhattan, TriBeCa is most popular today because of the enormous revitalization of the forgotten neighborhood in the 1970’s and 1980’s. After a successful group of artists were able to legalize their live/work situation in SoHo, a group of Lispenard Street residents sought to do the same in their neighborhood.
After new zoning by the Lispenard Street residents, the neighborhood began to be known as the Triangle Below Canal Block Association. Interestingly, the Lispenard Street residents were really looking to gain a live/work situation for their block but because of attention from the New York Times, the entire neighborhood was recognized.
And a good thing too. TriBeCa is one of the most sought after neighborhoods in America with famous and notable residents including; Beyoncé Knowles, Leonardo DiCaprio, Edward Albee, Kate Winslet, John Stewart, Meryl Street, Uma Thurman and M. Night Shyamalan.
Keeping faith towards its artist intent, TriBeCa is the home of the TOAST walk and the TriBeCa Film Festival. The TOAST walk is an annual walking tour, which viewers can walk from each artists live/work space to the next. This way, the artist gets to share their work as well as where it is created. What happens here is a pure reaction to the work and a direct relationship with the artist, the work and the viewer. In the same way, the TriBeCa’s Film Festival aims “to enable the international film community and the general public to experience the power of film by redefining the film festival experience.”
Being a Brooklynite myself, I forget how SoHo and TriBeCa really led us all towards our “Live. Work. Create.” slogan because it was really the approved live/work legalization in the 1970’s and 80’s which led us to inhabit these strange loft buildings we Brooklynites are so proud of. Without the example set in TriBeCa, we may never have had the bravery to move into these neighborhoods. Thank you TriBeCa.
Notable buildings in the neighborhoods include the historic neo-Renaissance Textile Building built in 1901, the Powell Building, New York Telephone Company with its Mayan-inspired Art Deco motif, and the former New York Mercantile Exchange at 6 Harrison Street.
