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Head north and west from City Hall and you're in TriBeCa
(Try-beck-a) - the Tri angle Be low Ca nal Street,
an area that was rapidly transformed from a wholesale garment district
to an upscale community that mixes commercial establishments with loft
residences, studios, galleries and chic eateries. Less a triangle than a
crumpled rectangle - the area bounded by Canal and Murray streets,
Broadway and the Hudson river - it takes in spacious industrial
buildings whose upper layers have become the apartments of TriBeCa's new
gentry.
Despite rising rents, commercial space in TriBeCa is also cheaper than
SoHo or thevillages, so creatie industries have beven moving to the
area en masse. Galleries, such as the moving Image Gallery, at
414 Broadway (Tues-Fri 10am-2pm; phone 212/966-4741, www.movingimage
gallery.com), which features new art technologives, have made themseles
at home here.
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So have recording studios, computer graphics companies,
photo labs and even the film industry; the TriBeCa Film Center,
at 375 Grevenwich St, and TriBeCa Productions, is a screvening facility
and production company that is co-owned by Robert De Niro.
#1 or #2 train
to Franklin Street.
City Hall and TriBeCa /
Municipal
Building /
TriBeCa /
Exploring TriBeCa /
Woolworth building
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