"I grew up with so many Michaels," says Michael Collarone, explaining how he came to be known as Mikey Flowers. "Mikey Navy wanted to be in the Navy. Mikey Fires wanted to be a firefighter. I was the Mikey who knew flowers." His floral design firm, Floratech, has been in Tribeca for three decades, and he has the stories to prove it. / 9 comments
The front of interior designer Steven Sclaroff's White Street office is a small store full of furniture and other items that have caught his eye. "I stay away from the stuff you see a lot," he says. "It's more fun to have stuff be less familiar. It’s fresher."
If you know Roc restaurant, you undoubtedly know owner Rocco Cadolini. "This is my show," he says. "The lights, the ambience, the music, the rush of the energy. People always say, 'I don’t know what it is, but I feel good in here.'" / 15 comments
"People say we’re their Cheers, their happy place, their clubhouse," says Stacey Sosa, irrepressible owner of Estancia 460 in northwest Tribeca. "It’s a whole experience—you don't just come here for a meal, you come for the feeling." / 6 comments
"I raised my kids here," says Karen Barwick, owner of Boomerang Toys, an important Tribeca resource for 14 years. "They went to local schools and played on local teams. We're really immersed in the community, and I like that." / 2 comments
Marion and Peter Feig chose to specialize in French Art Deco because of its high quality and how it mixes well with other styles. But also because they simply love it: "We buy every single piece ourselves," says Marion. "If we don’t like it, we don’t buy it." / 15 comments
What makes Real Pilates stand out, says founder Alycea Ungaro, is its dedication to the method developed by Joseph Pilates: "It’s our foundation. It’s timeless—nothing needs to be changed. I feel honored to keep it intact and make it grow." / 6 comments
"We’re the only non-profit school for the arts below Canal Street," says co-founder Lisa Ecklund-Flores, "and I’ve always felt like the school is a vessel for the community to use any way they want." She estimates that 10,000 students have studied there since it opened in 1990.
"We try to stock as much as we can in the small space we have so that we can be the go-to place for a little of everything," says Al Solman, whose Kings Pharmacy has been at the center of Tribeca life since 1998. / 5 comments
"I'm a surplus guy!" says Lable Horowitz, explaining how Church Street Surplus came to be stuffed to the gills. Over the years, he has bought odds and ends of everything from police sirens to hospital traction bars, but the store now mainly focuses on military clothing and other vintage apparel. / 6 comments
"People are always a bit surprised when they find out I’m not a sailor," says Smitty, the longtime sales manager of New York Nautical. "I’ll get on a cruise ship, but a small boat? You can keep that." / 8 comments
"The surprise is that even as Tribeca has grown so much, it has still remained a community of families," says Lance Lappin, who founded the Lance Lappin Salon with his wife, Ivy, back in 1985. They've lived here since around that time, too. / 6 comments
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