Editing Tribeca (section)

=== Early history ===
The area now known as Tribeca was farmed by Dutch settlers to [[New Amsterdam]], prominently [[Roeliff Jansen Kill#Roeliff Jansen|Roeleff Jansen]]  (who obtained the land patent, called Dominie's Bouwery, from [[Wouter van Twiller]] in 1636) and his wife Anneke Jans who later married [[Everardus Bogardus]]. The land stayed with the family until 1670 when the deed was signed over to Col. [[Francis Lovelace]]. In 1674 the Dutch took possession of the area until the English reclaimed the land a year later. In 1674, representing the [[James II of England|Duke of York]], [[Edmund Andros|Governor Andros]] took possession of the land.<ref>{{cite web |title=A Dutchwoman's Farm; The Hon. James W. Gerard on the Anneke Jans Bogardus Claims. |website=The New York Times |date=May 7, 1879 |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/svc/tmach/v1/refer?pdf=true&res=9803E1DE133EE63BBC4F53DFB3668382669FDE |access-date=March 15, 2019}}</ref>

Tribeca was later part of the large tract of land given to [[Trinity Church (Manhattan)|Trinity Church]] by [[Anne, Queen of Great Britain|Queen Anne]] in 1705. In 1807, the church built [[St. John's Chapel (New York City)|St. John's Chapel]] on [[Varick Street]] and then laid out [[St. John's Park]], bounded by Laight Street, Varick Street, [[Ericsson Place]], and [[Hudson Street (Manhattan)|Hudson Street]]. The church also built [[Hudson Square]], a development of brick houses that surrounded the park, which would become the model for [[Gramercy Park]]. The area was among the first residential neighborhoods developed in New York City beyond the city's colonial boundaries, and remained primarily residential until the 1840s.<ref name=enc-nyc />

Several streets in the area are named after [[Anthony Lispenard Bleecker]] and the Lispenard family. Beach Street was created in the late 18th century and was the first street on or adjacent to the farm of Anthony Lispenard Bleecker, which was just south of what is now [[Canal Street (Manhattan)|Canal Street]]; the name of the street is a corruption of the name of Paul Bache, a son-in-law of Anthony Lispenard.<ref>{{cite streetbook}}, p.26</ref><ref>{{cite naming |page=43}}</ref> Lispenard Street in Tribeca is named for the Lispenard family,<ref name="cite naming|page=45">{{cite naming |page=45}}</ref> and [[Bleecker Street]] in [[NoHo, Manhattan|NoHo]] was named for Anthony Lispenard Bleecker.<ref name="cite naming|page=45" />