The “Triangle below Canal”, which was virtually uninhabited less than twenty years ago, has become one of the hottest real estate areas in Manhattan. A similar history to SoHo, TriBeCa was originally inhabited when the rent in SoHo became too high for the struggling artists. With a similar building makeup (low-rise cast iron buildings with large windows and interior walls) TriBeCa quickly became the interest of professionals and businesses alike.

Although TriBeCa is home to artists, celebrities and industrial types, Scarlet Johansson recently purchased a luxury loft in TriBeCa; it is also the ideal place for family living. With fewer tourists than SoHo, but with the similar building layouts and spacious designs, families have found SoHo to be the perfect blend of convenience, location and with top public elementary school p.s. 234 on the corner of Chambers and Greenwich streets, there is one more reason to live in TriBeCa.

TriBeCa has also enjoyed a recent revitalization in part thanks to movie star Robert DeNiro who brought the TriBeCa Film Center to fruition and took part in the TriBeCa grill on the ground floor of the same building.

Other Neighborhoods in Tribeca: Soho, Little Italy, Bowery, Chinatown