This is a departure from recent Instagram Tribeca roundups in that these photos were all taken by other people. / 1 comment
The details that give Tribeca so much of its character are slowly being cleaned up and smoothed out. Savor them while you can. / 2 comments
When quotation marks are obviously not quoting something, they come off as scare quotes—as if the subject is not what it seems to be. And that can be amusing. / 7 comments
Do you ever slow down and look at the patterns, details, textures, and scars that give Tribeca its character? Take W. Broadway, for example....
Every now and then, the camera refuses to focus, and I find the result transfixing. / 2 comments
Many of Jane Freeman's photos from the 1980s and 1990s were taken at locations I've been unable to identify. Feel free to weigh in, but please don't just toss out a guess. / 19 comments
By this time every summer, Mother Nature starts reclaiming what's rightly hers. / 4 comments
In the last post in the then-and-now series of Jane Freeman's photos from the 1980s, we take a look at lower Greenwich Street, where the changes have been among the most dramatic. / 4 comments
Fifty years ago, Governor Nelson Rockefeller signed the Battery Park City Authority Act—the first step in a long process of building a neighborhood from the ground (or water) up. Historical photos show how it happened. / 4 comments
It's hard to imagine now the state of decay that much of Greenwich Street—prime Tribeca these days—was in three decades ago. Lucky for us, Jane Freeman was taking photos.... / 11 comments
I am very much for the opening of legal shops that responsibly sell these products. As a parent, the proliferation... — TriRes / Neighbors on Duane Park are organizing against cannabis shop
I've lived here since 1977 and also agree completely with the original poster. — mulciber / Neighbors on Duane Park are organizing against cannabis shop
My mom took me there in the 70s to buy me a sailor dress. Not sure what the occasion was.... — Native / Lable Horowitz, who opened Church Street Surplus in 1971, dies at 87
The reason there is such a push for legal cannabis dispensaries is they pay landlords a premium for their space.... — Dwight / Neighbors on Duane Park are organizing against cannabis shop
Speaking of ties, during the 80's and until recent years Canal Surplus seemed, among other things, to specialize in knitted... — John Willenbecher / Lable Horowitz, who opened Church Street Surplus in 1971, dies at 87
Thanks, guys! — Tribeca Citizen / Lable Horowitz, who opened Church Street Surplus in 1971, dies at 87
I am from Tribeca and agree with Mary 100%. — J / Neighbors on Duane Park are organizing against cannabis shop