Want a bite of the Big Apple? Try trendy TriBeCa

New York is packed with fascinating corners but few are more unique and quirkily charming than über-fashionable TriBeCa.

Gaining its name from a description of its location in Lower Manhattan (the Triangle Below Canal Street), this bustling area is bounded by Canal Street, West Street, Courtlandt Alley, Broadway and Chambers Street and was New York’s first residential neighbourhood, with suitable homes being constructed as early as the late 1700s. By the mid 1800s the tone of the area had changed completely and large numbers of store and loft buildings dominated.

TriBeCa is defined by the number of former industrial buildings that have been converted to more fashionable lofts and, during the late 1960s and 1970s, took on much of the overspill from SoHo as artists, attracted by the large creative spaces and Manhattan location, queued up to view property there.

These days TriBeCa is perhaps best known as the birthplace of the internationally renowned TriBeCa Film Festival, founded in 2002 by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff to assist the recovery of Lower Manhattan after the devastation of September 11th 2001. The festival primarily celebrates New York as a world centre of filmmaking and awards annual prizes in a number of categories, including Best Documentary Feature, Best New York Narrative, Best New York Documentary as well as the more usual acting awards.

Perhaps because of the TriBeCa Film Festival, its proximity to all the delights of Manhattan or the fact that Broadway, that legendary street, is a mere amble around the corner, this part of the Big Apple has attracted some truly stellar residents.

While most visitors to the United States of America are aware of the number of celebrities that can be spotted in the environs of Beverly Hills, far fewer people know that to stand in the centre of TriBeCa means being only metres away from Mariah Carey, Robert De Niro, James Gandolfini, Jay-Z, Harvey Keitel, Beyonce, Gwyneth Paltrow, Michael Stipe, Meryl Streep, Justin Timberlake and Kate Winslet.

That’s the joy of TriBeCa – an industrial façade in the beating heart of New York City with a cast list of A-list celebrities.

Rimontgó has a number of properties for sale in TriBeCa, including:

Superbly spacious triplex apartment housing a Keith Haring original mural

Massive four-bedroom apartment with the best views in NYC

Own a piece of New York history with this unique, four-storey townhouse

The ultimate artist’s pad with maximum wall space for hanging those works of art

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