Tribeca

The name Tribeca was invented in the 1970s, short for Triangle Below Canal Street, when artists were moving into its empty warehouses. A century earlier, this was the city’s food warehouse district, where butter, eggs, cheese and coffee arrived by ship and were stored in sturdy brick buildings with iron shutters. You can still see the old loading docks and painted signs. After September 11, 2001, Robert De Niro and his partners founded the Tribeca Film Festival to bring life back downtown, and today the neighborhood is one of the most expensive in the country, home to movie stars and music royalty. This walk takes you through its cobblestone streets, past famous lofts and down to the Hudson.