Editing Tribeca (section)

==Name==
Tribeca is one of a number of neighborhoods in New York City whose names are [[syllabic abbreviation]]s or [[acronyms]], including [[SoHo, Manhattan|SoHo]] (South of [[Houston Street]]), [[NoHo, Manhattan|NoHo]] (North of Houston Street), [[Nolita]] (North of [[Little Italy]]), [[NoMad]] (North of [[Madison Square]]), [[DUMBO]] (Down Under the [[Manhattan Bridge]] Overpass), and [[BoCoCa]], the last of which is actually a collection of neighborhoods ([[Boerum Hill]], [[Cobble Hill, Brooklyn|Cobble Hill]], and [[Carroll Gardens]]).

[[File:Textile Building, Tribeca Historic District (15 October 2005).jpg|thumb|left|[[Textile Building (Manhattan)|Textile Building]] (1901) in the Tribeca Historic District]]
The name "Tribeca" was coined in the early 1970s and originally applied to the narrower area bounded by Broadway and Canal, Lispenard, and Church Streets, which appears to be a triangle on city planning maps. Residents of this area formed the TriBeCa Artists' Co-op in filing legal documents connected to a 1973 zoning dispute.<ref name=NYT2001/> An April 1976 article in ''[[The New York Times]]'' described that residents had used such names as "Lo Cal" and "So So" for the neighborhood, and that the [[New York City Department of City Planning|City Planning Commission]] had established the name and that it covered "Canal Street on the north, Barclay Street on the south, West Street, and Broadway on the east".<ref>[[Grace Glueck|Glueck, Grace]]. [https://www.nytimes.com/1976/04/30/archives/new-jersey-weekly-art-people-the-names-only-soso-but-loftrich.html "Art People"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240220223344/https://www.nytimes.com/1976/04/30/archives/new-jersey-weekly-art-people-the-names-only-soso-but-loftrich.html |date=February 20, 2024 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', April 30, 1976. Accessed February 20, 2024. "It's called TriBeCa, though nobody's wild about the name. That's City Planning Commission short talk for Triangle Below Canal Street, but those who live there have other designations for it—Lo Cal, Washington Market, the Lower West Side or even SoSo (for South of Soho). Larger than SoHo in area, TriBeCa lies next to the financial district, a triangle (really a trapezoid) bounded by Canal Street on the north, Barclay Street on the south, West Street, and Broadway on the east."</ref> According to a local historian, the name had been misconstrued by the newspaper reporter as applying to a much larger area, which is how it came to be the name of the current neighborhood.<ref name=NYT2001>{{Cite news |last=Schneider |first=Daniel B. |date=September 2, 2001 |title=F.Y.I. |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/02/nyregion/fyi-960330.html |access-date=June 9, 2023 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=January 31, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230131003051/https://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/02/nyregion/fyi-960330.html |url-status=live }}</ref>