Tribeca (), originally written as TriBeCa, is a

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. Its name is a

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of "Triangle Below Canal Street". The "triangle" (more accurately a quadrilateral) is bounded by Canal Street,

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, Broadway, and Chambers Street. By the 2010s, a common marketing tactic was to extend Tribeca's southern boundary to either

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or Murray streets to increase the appeal of property listings. 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

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, to reinvigorate the neighborhood and downtown after the destruction caused by the terrorist attacks. Tribeca is part of Manhattan Community District 1, and its primary ZIP Codes are 10007 and 10013. It is patrolled by the 1st Precinct of the

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Name

Tribeca is one of a number of neighborhoods in New York City whose names are

s or

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, including

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(South of Houston Street),

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(North of Houston Street),

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(North of Little Italy),

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(North of Madison Square), DUMBO (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass), and

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, the last of which is actually a collection of neighborhoods ( Boerum Hill, Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens). Textile Building, Tribeca Historic District (15 October 2005)

Textile Building, Tribeca Historic District (15 October 2005)

The name was coined in the early 1970s and originally applied to the 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. According to a local historian, the name was misconstrued by a newspaper reporter as applying to a much larger area, which is how it came to be the name of the current neighborhood.

History

Early history

The area now known as Tribeca, or TriBeCa, was farmed by Dutch settlers to

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, 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

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. 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

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, Governor Andros took possession of the land. 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

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, bounded by Laight Street, Varick Street,

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, and Hudson Street. The church also built Hudson Square, a development of brick houses which surrounded the park, which would become the model for

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. 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. 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. Lispenard Street in Tribeca is named for the Lispenard family, and

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was named for Anthony Lispenard Bleecker.

Commercial and industrial development

During the 1840s and then continuing after the

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, shipping in New York City – which then consisted only of

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– shifted in large part from the

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and the area around South Street to the

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, 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

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from the

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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. Later, the Hudson River piers also received freight via railroad cars ferried across the river from New Jersey. The increased shipping encouraged the expansion of the Washington Market – a wholesale produce market which 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. 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. Later, the area also featured fireworks outlets, pets stores, radios – which were clustered in a district which was displaced by the building of the

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– sporting goods, shoes, and church supplies. 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

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construction, namely the extension of the

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(today's ), 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

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, an elevated train line on

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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, 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

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, an elevated roadway which 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.

Redevelopment

By the 1960s, Tribeca's industrial base had all but vanished, and the produce market moved to Hunts Point in

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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

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in 1981. 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

. 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, known then 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, or Murray Street.Gold, Joyce "Tribeca" in , p.1333 Tribeca map crop

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. Tribeca suffered both physically and financially after the

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, but government grants and incentives helped the area rebound fairly quickly. The

Tribeca Film Festival The Tribeca Festival is an annual film festival organized by TriBeCa Productions, Tribeca Productions. It takes place each spring in New York City, showcasing a diverse selection of film, episodic, talks, music, games, art, and immersive progra ...

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. In 2006, ''

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'' magazine ranked its 10013 zip code as New York City's most expensive (however, the adjacent, low-income neighborhood of

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, also uses the 10013 zip code). , Tribeca was the safest neighborhood in New York City, according to NYPD and

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statistics. In the 2010s, several skyscrapers were completed, including 30 Park Place (containing the

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, and

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Demographics

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. Based on data from the

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, the population of SoHo-TriBeCa-Civic Center-Little Italy was 42,742, a change of 5,985 (14%) from the 36,757 counted in

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. Covering an area of , the neighborhood had a population density of .Table PL-P5 NTA: Total Population and Persons Per Acre - New York City Neighborhood Tabulation Areas*, 2010
Population Division -

Department of City Planning, February 2012. Accessed June 16, 2016. The racial makeup of the neighborhood was 66.1% (28,250)

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, 2.2% (934)

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, 0.1% (30) Native American, 22.2% (9,478)

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, 0% (11)

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, 0.4% (171) from other races, and 2.6% (1,098) from two or more races.

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of any race were 6.5% (2,770) of the population.Table PL-P3A NTA: Total Population by Mutually Exclusive Race and Hispanic Origin - New York City Neighborhood Tabulation Areas*, 2010
Population Division -

Department of City Planning, March 29, 2011. Accessed June 14, 2016. The entirety of Community District 1, which comprises Tribeca and other Lower Manhattan neighborhoods, had 63,383 inhabitants as of NYC Health's 2018 Community Health Profile, with an average life expectancy of 85.8 years. This is higher than the median life expectancy of 81.2 for all New York City neighborhoods. 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. As of 2017, the median household income in Community Districts 1 and 2 (including

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and

) was $144,878, though the median income in Battery Park City individually was $126,771. 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, , Tribeca and Lower Manhattan are considered high-income relative to the rest of the city and not

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Places

Tribeca is dominated by former industrial buildings that have been converted into residential buildings and

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s, 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

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and built in 1901, and the Powell Building, a

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on Hudson Street, which was designed by

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and built in 1892. Other notable buildings include the

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building at

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, 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. *

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, an

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building, is the former site of the AT&T Long Lines division. *

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, an office building near the northwestern corner of Tribeca, is the headquarters of the corporate and investment banking arm of financial services corporation

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. * Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC) is part of the

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. The college campus is located between Chambers Street and N. Moore Street, spanning four blocks. BMCC's Fiterman Hall, severely damaged in the September 11, 2001, attacks, was demolished and has been rebuilt. * Holland Tunnel connecting New York to

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has its entrances and exits in the northwest corner of Tribeca, centered around

. * Hook & Ladder Company No. 8, a still-in-use firehouse at

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, was the site of the filming of the '' Ghostbusters'' movies. Memorabilia from the movies is displayed inside. Another film, '' Hitch'', with

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, also filmed a short but notable scene at the firehouse. * Hudson River Park, a waterside park on the

, it extends from 59th Street south to Battery Park. It runs through the Manhattan neighborhoods of

, Battery Park City, TriBeCa,

, Gansevoort Market (The Meatpacking District), Chelsea, Midtown West, Hudson Yards, and Hell's Kitchen (Clinton). It is a joint

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and New York City collaboration and is a park, the biggest in Manhattan after

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. The park arose as part of the West Side Highway replacement project in the wake of the abandoned Westway plan. * Kitchen, Montross & Wilcox Store, a landmarked building in Tribeca, was built in 1861. *

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, a private, independent educational institution, is located on Canal Street. * New York Academy of Art, a private, graduate art school that focuses on technical training and critical discourse. *

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, a private, independent law school, was founded in 1891, and has been located in several buildings in Tribeca since 1962, principally along Worth Street between Church Street and West Broadway. * Nutopian Embassy, Located at 1 White Street (at the corner of White Street and W Broadway), this landmark townhouse building is known as the embassy location of John Lennon and Yoko Ono's conceptual country of Nutopia. It was built sometime between 1805 and 1825 and has been used as both a townhouse residence as well as a cafe space. The building in its entirety is now being used as a restaurant. *

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, one of the nine specialized high schools in New York City, is located at 345 Chambers Street in nearby Battery Park City. The

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was built to assure the safety of the students who need to get across

to get to the building. *

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, a landmarked building in Tribeca, was built between 1923 and 1927. It was converted into condominiums in 2016. *

, bounded by Greenwich,

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, and

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Streets, is a park that is popular with children for its large

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. The park also has community gardens and hosts community events.

Historic districts

Four

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-designated four historic districts within Tribeca in 1991 and 1992 as well as an extension of one in 2002: * Tribeca Westdesignated * Tribeca Eastdesignated * Tribeca Northdesignated * Tribeca Southdesignated * Tribeca South Extensiondesignated

Police and crime

Tribeca and Lower Manhattan are patrolled by the 1st Precinct of the NYPD, located at 16 Ericsson Place. 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. , 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. 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.

Fire safety

Tribeca is served by two New York City Fire Department (FDNY) fire stations. Engine Co. 7/Ladder Co. 1/Battalion 1 is located at 100 Duane Street while Ladder Co. 8, which appears in the '' Ghostbusters'' films, is located at 14 North Moore Street.

Health

preterm birth Preterm birth, also known as premature birth, is the Childbirth, birth of a baby at fewer than 37 weeks Gestational age (obstetrics), gestational age, as opposed to full-term delivery at approximately 40 weeks. Extreme preterm is less than 28 we ...

s 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. 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. The concentration of

fine particulate matter Particulates – also known as atmospheric aerosol particles, atmospheric particulate matter, particulate matter (PM) or suspended particulate matter (SPM) – are microscopic particles of solid or liquid matter suspended in the air. The ter ...

, the deadliest type of air pollutant, in Tribeca and Lower Manhattan is , more than the city average. Sixteen percent of Tribeca and Lower Manhattan residents are smokers, which is more than the city average of 14% of residents being smokers. In Tribeca and Lower Manhattan, 4% of residents are obese, 3% are

diabetic Diabetes, also known as diabetes mellitus, is a group of metabolic disorders characterized by a high blood sugar level (hyperglycemia) over a prolonged period of time. Symptoms often include frequent urination, increased thirst and increased app ...

, and 15% have

high blood pressure Hypertension (HTN or HT), also known as high blood pressure (HBP), is a long-term medical condition in which the blood pressure in the arteries is persistently elevated. High blood pressure usually does not cause symptoms. Long-term high bl ...

, the lowest rates in the city—compared to the citywide averages of 24%, 11%, and 28% respectively. In addition, 5% of children are obese, the lowest rate in the city, compared to the citywide average of 20%. 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%. For every supermarket in Tribeca and Lower Manhattan, there are 6 bodegas. The nearest major hospital is

NewYork-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital NewYork-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital is a nonprofit, acute care, teaching hospital in New York City and is the only hospital in Lower Manhattan south of Greenwich Village. It is part of the NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare System and one ...

in the Civic Center area.

Post offices and ZIP Codes

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 The Jacob K. Javits Federal Office Building at 26 Federal Plaza on Foley Square in the Civic Center neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City houses many federal government agencies. At over 41 stories, it is the tallest federal building in the U ...

is located in 10278. The

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operates two post offices near Tribeca: the Federal Plaza Station at 26 Federal Plaza and the Canal Street Station at 350 Canal Street.

Education

Tribeca and Lower Manhattan generally have a higher rate of college-educated residents than the rest of the city . 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. 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. 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%. Additionally, 96% of high school students in Tribeca and Lower Manhattan graduate on time, more than the citywide average of 75%.

Schools

The New York City Department of Education operates the following public schools nearby: * PS 150 (grades PK-5) * PS 234 Independence School (grades K-5)

Libraries

The

New York Public Library The New York Public Library (NYPL) is a public library system in New York City. With nearly 53 million items and 92 locations, the New York Public Library is the second largest public library in the United States (behind the Library of Congress ...

(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. 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 Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) is a green building certification program used worldwide. Developed by the non-profit U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), it includes a set of rating systems for the design, construction ...

-certified branch.

Notable people

Edward Albee Edward Franklin Albee III ( ; March 12, 1928 – September 16, 2016) was an American playwright known for works such as ''The Zoo Story'' (1958), '' The Sandbox'' (1959), ''Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'' (1962), '' A Delicate Balance'' (1966) ...

(1928-2016), playwright * Laurie Anderson (born 1947), artist *

Arman Arman (November 17, 1928 – October 22, 2005) was a French-born American artist. Born Armand Fernandez in Nice, France, Arman was a painter who moved from using objects for the ink or paint traces they leave (''cachets'', ''allures d'objet'') to ...

(1928-2005), artist * Karole Armitage (born 1954) dancer and choreographer * Robert Ashley (1930-2014), composerSmith, Steve
"An Opera Full of Secrets From a Master of the Opaque"
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'', January 14, 2007. Accessed April 30, 2017. "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." * Bill Barrett (born 1934), artist * Paul Bettany (born 1971), actorDavid, Amrk
"Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly On the Move Again"
''

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'', January 14, 2012. Accessed July 19, 2016. "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." * Kate Betts (born 1964), fashion journalist. *

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(born 1981), singer / songwriterStaff
"In the News: Inside Beyoncé and Jay Z’s Apartment"
''Tribeca Citizen'', November 26, 2014. Accessed April 30, 2017. "Internet mavens have identified two artworks in the video for Beyoncé’s new single 7/11, which was filmed inside the Tribeca apartment the R&B superstar shares with her husband." *

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(born 1982), actress.Keil, Jennifer Gould
"Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel score huge discount on NYC penthouse"
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'', May 31, 2017. Accessed July 23, 2017. "The penthouse at star-studded 443 Greenwich — a former book- binding factory in Tribeca — was on the market for $27.5 million. Timberlake (left) and his actress wife, Jessica Biel bought it, however, for $20.18 million through Just US 1 LLC, according to city property records." * Robert Bingham (1966-1999), writer. *

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(born 1949), artist * Eric Bogosian (born 1953), actor. * Edward Burns (born 1968), actor *

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(born 1969), singer / songwriter * Jennifer Connelly (born 1970), actress * Daniel Craig (born 1968), actor * Billy Crystal (born 1948), actor and comedianBernard, Sarah
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''. Accessed April 30, 2017. "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." *

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(born 1943), actor, producer and director * Carroll Dunham (born 1949), painter * Lena Dunham (born 1986), actress, writer, producer and director best known for the

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series '' Girls''. *

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(born 1964), radio personality * Kyle Eastwood (born 1968), jazz bass musician * The Edge (born 1961), musician and songwriter best known as the lead guitarist, keyboardist and backing vocalist of U2 *

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and

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TV reality star. *

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(born 1953), author and psychotherapist, integrating both

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's and

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's approaches to trauma, who writes about their interplay.Williams, John
"When a Therapist Puts Buddhism Into Practice"
''

'', January 18, 2018. Accessed December 10, 2019. "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." * Marisol Escobar (1930-2016), sculptor, (deceased) *

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(born 1946), sculptor * Savannah Guthrie (born 1971), broadcast journalist and attorney who is a main co-anchor of the

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morning show '' Today'' *

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* Mariska Hargitay *

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(1937-2020), painter and sculptor * Peter Hermann *

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* Bob Holman, poet and poetry activist *

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* Chanel Iman * Michael Imperioli *

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(born 1969), rapper and businessman * Richard Jefferson *

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, arts administrator * Harvey Keitel * Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy ''(deceased)'' *

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''(deceased)'' * Daniel Kessler *

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(born 1947), artist *

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* Jodi Long *

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(born 1952), film and television producer. * Chris Martin (born 1972), musician, singer, songwriter, record producer and philanthropist. *

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* Shane McMahon * Debra Messing * Taylor Momsen *

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(1931-2019), novelist. *

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* Casey Neistat *

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(born 1972), actress, singer and food writerCohen, Michelle
"Combine Gwyneth Paltrow’s Tribeca penthouse with downstairs loft for the ultimate duplex"
6sqft, September 22, 2016. Accessed July 23, 2017. "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." * Richard Parsons (born 1948), former CEO of

* Jean Passanante *

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* Mike Piazza * Amy Poehler (born 1971), actress, comedian, director, producer and writer. * Jane Pratt (born 1962), founding editor of '' Sassy'' and ''

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'' * Rammellzee (1960-2010), visual artist,

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writer and performance artist. * Norman Reedus *

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(born 1936), composer * Roger Rees (1944-2015), actor and director *

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* Kelly Ripa (born 1970), talk show host and television producer. * Nouriel Roubini *

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* Richard Serra * John Shaw (1948-2019), painter and printmaker * Jake Shears (born 1978), singer and songwriter best known as the lead male singer for the band Scissor Sisters. *

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(born 1951), artist * Duncan Sheik (born 1969), singer-songwriter and composer *

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(born 1949), artist, photographer and filmmaker.Browne, Alix
"T Magazine; Living Large"
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'', November 6, 2011. Accessed December 10, 2019. "'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." * Gary Sinise (born 1955), actor, director, musician, producer and philanthropist * Shane Smith (born 1969), journalist and media executive. who is co-founder and Executive Chairman of

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(born 1945), composer * George Steel, musician who was General Manager and Artistic Director of New York City Opera *

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* Michael Stipe * Dominique Strauss-Kahn * Meryl Streep *

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(born 1949), composer, songwriter and pianist * Uma Thurman (born 1970), actress and model *

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(born 1981), singer-songwriter, actor and record producer. * Christy Turlington (born 1969), model, charity-founder / campaigner and filmmaker * Richard Tuttle (born 1941),

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'' TriBeCa'' in 1993 and co-founded the annual

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.

In popular culture

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. In addition, a fictional "Tribeca High School" appears in the '' Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'' episode " Granting Immunity." Local radio station ''

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's'' studio is located here. In the third book of the ''

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'' 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.Stock, Kyle
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, November 21, 2016. Accessed October 16, 2017. "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."

References

External links

Community groups and organizations
Tribeca Film Festival

Tribeca Trust
- a community organization working on historic preservation and public spaces Images and memories
Tribeca in the 1970s
– Early photos of the neighborhood
Tribeca through history
– ''Requiem For A Living City: Notes On A Home In Tribeca'' Neighborhood guides
tribeca.org
– Neighborhood history, dining, shopping, arts and entertainments (maintained by the Tribeca Organization)

– About.com
Tribeca Open Artist Studio Tour (TOAST)

Tribeca Art Night

News and blogs
The Tribeca Trib
– neighborhood newspaper in circulation since 1994
Tribecan
– Daily online magazine dedicated exclusively to Tribeca
Battery Park Blog
- Covering Battery Park City, the Financial District, and Tribeca

- Local news throughout Battery Park City, Tribeca, South Street Seaport and the Financial District
Downtown Express
– Weekly, local newspaper of Lower Manhattan
The Tribeca Citizen
– Online local newspaper covering Tribeca, Battery Park City, the Financial District, and east of Broadway {{DEFAULTSORT:Tribeca Economy of New York City Neighborhoods in Manhattan Warehouse districts of the United States