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80 NE W Y ORK CIT Y & THE MID-A TLANTIC REGION
t TriBeCa buildings are stretched out
over a fiveblock area. The finest
Map C4. S of Houston St, N of
Chambers St, & W of Lafayette St to are those at 72–76, the “King”
Hudson River. q Spring St, Canal St, and 28–30, the “Queen.” A 19th
Franklin St, Chambers St. century American innovation,
cast iron was cheaper than either
The neighborhood named for stone or brick and allowed
its geographic shape, TRIangle decorative elements to be
BElow CAnal, once consisted prefabricated in foundries from
mostly of abandoned ware molds and used as building
houses. Then Robert de Niro set façades. The area was threatened
up his TriBeCa Film Center in a with demolition in the 1960s,
converted coffee warehouse, and but was saved by the protests
now the annual TriBeCa Film of the many artists living and
Festival in the spring draws crowds working in its then lowrent
and celebrities alike, and features former warehouses.
a superb range of films, from The Singer Building on Original furnishings in East Village’s
foreign flicks to blockbusters. Broadway was built by Ernest Merchant’s House Museum
TriBeCa is now one of New Flagg in 1904. This ornate
York’s most elite neighbor 12story building, adorned vintage boutiques and
hoods, with stylish restaurants, with wroughtiron balconies independent movie houses.
hip hotels, art galleries, cafés, and graceful arches painted in The sixstory Cooper Union
and big lofts occupied by striking dark green, was an was set up in 1859 by Peter
celebrity residents. office and warehouse for the Cooper, a wealthy industrialist
Singer sewing machine who built the first US steam
company. Morrison Hotel locomotive and founded New
y SoHo Historic Gallery, from SoHo's artistic York’s first free, nonsectarian
District past, still features fine art, and coeducational college.
music, and photography from Its Great Hall was inaugurated
Map C4. S of Houston St. Greene the 1940s. SoHo’s streets are in 1859 by Mark Twain, and
Street: q Canal St, Spring St,Prince St. lined with trendy cafés, Abraham Lincoln delivered his
restaurants, shops, and chic “Right Makes Might” speech
The largest concentration of designer boutiques. It is also the there in 1860.
castiron architecture in the city’s favorite Sunday brunch The 1832 Merchant’s House
world survives in SoHo, a former andbrowse neighborhood. Museum, a remarkable Greek
industrial district. The neighbor Revival brick townhouse, is a
hood comprises nearly 150 E Morrison Hotel Gallery time capsule of a vanished way
buildings and roughly covers 24 Prince St. Tel (212) 9418770. of life. It was bought by
the area from Houston Street Open 11am–6pm Mon–Thu, Seabury Tredwell, a wealthy
south to Spring Street and from 11am–7pm Fri & Sat, noon–6pm Sun. merchant, and remained in the
West Broadway to the east, ∑ morrisonhotelgallery.com family until 1933.
around Crosby Street. Its heart One of New York’s oldest
is Greene Street; 50 castiron churches, the 1799 St. Mark’s-
u East Village in-the-Bowery is located on
East 10th Street. Governor Peter
Map D4. 14th St to Houston St.
q Astor Place. Stuyvesant and his descendants
are buried here.
Prominent New Yorkers, The Englishstyle Tompkins
such as Peter Stuyvesant, Square Park was the site of
the Astors, and the America’s first organized labor
Vanderbilts, lived in this demonstration in 1874, the
fomer Dutch enclave until main gathering place during
1900, when they moved the neighborhood’s hippie era
uptown. Thereafter, it was and, in 1988, an arena for violent
home to German, Jewish, riots when the police tried to
Irish, and Ukrainian evict the homeless who had
immigrants. In the 1960s occupied the grounds.
the East Village became a
haven for hippies, and this E Merchant’s House Museum
is the place where punk 29 E 4th St. Tel (212) 7771089.
rock was born. Today, the Open noon–8pm Thu, noon–5pm Fri–
East Village is home to Mon. & 8 Photography without
numerous bohemian cafés flashes allowed.
The “Queen,” SoHo Historic District and lively restaurants, ∑ merchantshouse.com
For hotels and restaurants in this region see pp122–4 and pp125–7
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