Tribeca & Its Architecture

Résumé du livre

Step back in time to a gem of old New York.In the late nineteenth century, Tribeca filled with commercial palaces - factories, showrooms, warehouses, offices - sometimes all in the same building. It ended up one of the greatest concentrations of commercial architecture anywhere in the world. Brick, stone and terracotta combined in myriad styles to create a wonderland of urban delight.Much of this heritage still stands today thanks to massive community effort to preserve the area, a story told in this book. Modern businesses and apartments make old Tribeca new again, as a thriving neighborhood of downtown Manhattan. In this book, take the tour of the neighborhood with Andrew Dolkart, architectural historian and professor at Columbia University whose text here did much to create the historic districts we have today.