To get a feel for TriBeCa's mix of old and new, go to Duane Park, a slier of green between Hudson and Greenwich streets. Around the Park's picturesque perimeter you'll see the former depots of New York's egg, butter and cheese distribution center wedged between new residential apartments, where the World Trade Center buildings used to guard the skyline like sentinels.

Take a left out of Duane Park and follow Greenwich toward Canal Street. In this main strip restaurants from the affordable ( Yaffa's ) to the expensive (TriBeCa Grill) line the street. Parallel to Greenwich lies Hudson Street, which catches the overflow of fancy restaurants then, in sharp contrast, peters out into still-active warehouses, whose denizens do the same work they have for decades.

West Broadway is one of TriBeCa's main thoroughfares and has a few interesting, if nonessential sites to check out. On its northeast corner with White Street stands a rare remaining Federal-era store, in continuous use since 1809, and now home to the Liquor Store bar. Ladder Company 8, between Varick and North Moore streets, a turn-of-the-nineteenth century brick-and-stone firehouse, is dotted with white stars. The closest firehouse to the World Trade Center, it suffered many casualties on September 11, 2001.

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