Tribeca's History

Here is a photo of the Long Company Warehouse (1910) at the intersection of Washington and Murray Streets. We are looking south (to the left slightly) to Washington Market.   Note the fine cobblestones and streetcar tracks.  Is that a McCormick spice sign above the left wagon?  The owner of Long’s was a self-made entrepreneur […]

Here we see an image of New York Hospital, dating from the early 1800′s.   It occupied a 5 acre lot bounded by Worth, Broadway, Duane, and Church Street.  The hospital complex included a “lunatic asylum” of 80 beds seen on the far left.  The hospital board found the commercialization of the Broadway frontage impossible […]

In the top photo we see the elegant Washington Market building of 1880 at the corner of Vesey and West Streets.   It was built on the site of a traditional market that had been there since 1770.  Washington Market was the largest produce market in the country and the epicenter of an international agricultural […]

Independence Plaza and Washington Market Park are now where this astonishingly beautiful block once was, razed by idiotic urban renewal policies.