Head north and west from City Hall and you're in TriBeCa (Try-beck-a) - the Tri angle Be low Ca nal Street, an area that was rapidly transformed from a wholesale garment district to an upscale community that mixes commercial establishments with loft residences, studios, galleries and chic eateries. Less a triangle than a crumpled rectangle - the area bounded by Canal and Murray streets, Broadway and the Hudson River - it takes in spacious industrial buildings whose upper layers have become the apartments of TriBeCa's new gentry.
Despite rising rents, commercial space in TriBeCa is also cheaper than SoHo or the Villages, so creative industries have been moving to the area en masse. Galleries, such as the Moving Image Gallery , at 414 Broadway (Tues-Fri 10am-2pm; tel 212/966-4741, www.movingimage gallery.com), which features new art technologies, have made themselves at home here. So have recording studios, computer graphics companies, photo labs and even the film industry; the TriBeCa Film Center , at 375 Greenwich St, and TriBeCa Productions, is a screening facility and production company that is co-owned by Robert De Niro.
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