TriBeCa

LOCATION

Lower Manhattan. TriBeCa is a triangular-shaped area located below Canal Street. It is flanked by Broadway to the East, by the Hudson River to the West and by Chambers Street to the South. To the north lies SoHo, to the east - Chinatown, to the south - the Word Trade Center area and Battery Park City.

CHARACTER AND FEEL

Packed with A-list celebrities and successful execs, TriBeCa today is miles away from the artist haven it was in the 1970's. But its streets and buildings are full of character and one might say the neighborhood today deservedly ranks as one of New York's "coolest".

APARTMENTS & REAL ESTATE

With that said, there are a handful of "conventional" rental apartment buildings in the area as well, although a lot fewer than in neighboring Battery Park City.

Condo-wise, both conversion buildings and new developments (which often try to mimick the architectural style of the surrounding area) have apartments with multi-million dollar price tags.

For buyers not intimidated by board reviews, several co-op buildings (e.g. 80 Warren, 55 Hudson, 135 Hudson, 530 Canal, 56 Warren, 474 Greenwich, 44 Lispenard, 288 West, 76 Laight, 57 Walker, 36 White, 158 Chambers) exist as well, although the vast majority of TriBeCa residential buildigns are condos.

Selected Rental Buildings

• 111 Worth Street (TriBeCa)
  A 24-hour concierge building with 4 elevators, a garden view laundry, a health club and an outdoor deck.
• 88 Leonard Street (TriBeCa) {4 available apts}
  A modern high-rise doorman building.
• The Saranac (95 Worth Street, TriBeCa)
  A rent-stabilized building constructed in 2000
• TriBeCa Abbey (aka 121 Reade) (121 Reade Street, TriBeCa) {4 available apts}
  10-story building in TriBeca, the winner of a design award (1998). Many apartments feature terraces, duplex and triplex layouts.
• Tribeca Tower (105 Duane Street, TriBeCa) {1 available apt}
  A 52-story full-service luxury apartment building.

See all TriBeCa Rental Apartment Buildings (8 buildings)

Selected No-Fee Rental Listings

• $4,525 1-Bedroom at Tribeca Tower available 02/Jul/2009 posted 01/Jul/2009.
• $2,250 1-Bedroom at TriBeCa Abbey (aka 121 Reade) available 02/Jul/2009 posted 01/Jul/2009.
• $2,300 Studio at 88 Leonard Street available 02/Jul/2009 posted 23/Jun/2009.

See all TriBeCa No Fee Rental Apartments (9 total)

Condo & Co-op Buildings

• 101 Warren Street (TriBeCa)
  Mixed use property with condos and rentals which occupies nearly an entire city block. The 46-foot podium with two floors houses retail space, a low- and mid-rise block along....
• 114-116 Hudson Street (TriBeCa)
  Historic red brick cast iron 1887 building combined with a new seven-story glass and metal curtain wall structure.
• One York Street (1 York Street, TriBeCa)
  A modern condo built from the base of a traditional 19th century TriBeCa building. The newly added top seven floors contain 15 glass-walled penthouses.

See all TriBeCa Condo Apartment Buildings (25 buildings)

• The Powell Building (105 Hudson Street, TriBeCa)
  Pre-war building with 24 offices and 16 Residential lofts.

See our list of TriBeCa Co-op Apartment Buildings

DEMOGRAPHICS

Population: about 20,000. Mostly rich people with a taste for loft living - Wall Streeters, the independently wealthy crowd, famous entertainers (Robert DeNiro, Isabella Rossellini, and many others have apartments in this neighborhood). TriBeCa is more slightly less densely populated than the rest of Manhattan.

HISTORICAL NOTES

In the 1970's and 1980's TriBeCa's vast industrial spaces attracted artists and other "creatives" pretty much in the same way SoHo did and at approximately the same time.

Gentrification began and the population soared from a few hundred people in the mid-seventies to over 20,000 in 2003. With new residents came the new prices. Today, TriBeCa is anything but affordable.

SAFETY

The area is safe, but is not very densely populated and some streets may be deserted at night. The 1st precinct is located near the heart of the neighborhood.

NAME ORIGINS

LINKS AND RESOURCES

• 1st precinct