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Tribeca, the neighborhood of Manhattan roughly the triangle below Canal Street made up of Canal, West, and West Broadway, is probably Manhattan's capital of brick-faced streets. Most of them have escaped the city's notice and await the next water main break to be asphalted.

Straight out of a Hopper painting is desolate Collister Street, east of Greenwich and south of Laight. Most likely it was an alley originally serving stables in the region. The street is named for Thomas Collister, sexton of Trinity Church in the late 1700s, and first turns up on city records in 1818*; some of these stones may be the originals! *Information from The Street Book by Henry Moscow, © 1978 Hagstrom Maps HOME | LAMPS | SUBWAYS & TRAINS | ADS | TROLLEYS | SIGNS | COBBLESTONES | STREET SCENES | YOU'D NEVER BELIEVE YOU'RE IN NYC | LINKS | ALLEYS | NECROLOGY E-mail me at erpietri@earthlink.net!

Greenwich Street, in the vicinity of Canal, is a barely two-lane Belgian-blocked thoroughfare. In the vicinity of the Independence Plaza, about five blocks ahead, it expands to an asphalted major artery. Unmentioned by any map, this short, dead-end chunk of Washington Street is on Harrison Street, just west of Greenwich. Washington Street used to extend from Battery Place all the way to 14th Street without a break. Parts of Washington Street were replaced by the massive World Trade Center complex in 1970. The later construction of Independence Plaza broke up Washington Street even further. The beautiful Federal-style houses date from the early 1800s and were restored in 1975; they are now landmarked.