GREENSTREET

Leonard St And W. Broadway And Broadway

Manhattan

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This text is part of Parks’ Historical Signs Project and can be found posted within the park.

What was here before?
This park falls within the Tribeca West Historic district, designated in 1991 and distinguished by its many late 19th-century loft and warehouse buildings built for the purposes of light manufacturing, storage and food processing. In 1919, the widening and extension of Varick Street created this triangular space at Varick’s intersection with West Broadway and Franklin Street. At that time the neighborhood of the West Ward, as it was known, was mainly a working-class Irish community. By the late 20th century, it had transformed into a fashionable, upscale locale, renamed Tribeca (TRIangle BElow CAnal Street) by developers.

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