Stories from the district.
Long-form pieces, neighborhood history, and the people behind the galleries.
Before the artists, Tribeca sold cloth.
For a century these blocks were one of America's great textile marketplaces. Then distribution changed, the merchants left, and the last family to hold on sold their warehouse for millions.
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The collector at 60 White.
Lio Malca met Keith Haring once, in 1989, and spent thirty-five years believing in him. Now his Haring show, nightclub and all, fills a cast-iron building on White Street.
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The filmmakers of 368 Broadway.
The Safdies, Catfish, Lena Dunham and Casey Neistat all came up in one building on lower Broadway. The real reason is quieter than the legend: a family that kept the studios cheap for thirty years.
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How Tribeca became the gallery district.
Cast-iron warehouses, the artists who took them in the 1970s, the September 11th aftermath, and the slow southward migration that turned a quiet downtown neighborhood into the most concentrated gallery district in New York.
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