Tribeca-Civic Center

Neighborhood · Manhattan

Tribeca-Civic Center runs from Canal Street south to City Hall Park, joining Tribeca's former warehouse blocks west of Broadway with the government buildings and courthouses around Foley Square.

  • 0.49 square miles
  • 25,390 residents, 2020 Census
  • 165 street corners
  • 8 subway stations
  • 31 bus routes

Tribeca, short for Triangle Below Canal, got its name in the early 1970s, as artists were settling into lofts in its old warehouses, and four historic districts now protect its streets. City Hall, designed by Joseph Mangin and John McComb, opened in 1812 on the old Commons, a shared pasture in the late 1600s. Nearby, the African Burial Ground National Monument honors the free and enslaved Africans buried there from the mid-1630s to 1795.

Sources: Tribeca (Wikipedia); Civic Center, Manhattan (Wikipedia); City Hall Park (NYC Parks); History & Culture - African Burial Ground National Monument (National Park Service).

Map

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Tribeca-Civic Center borders three areas, and Greenwich Street and West Broadway hold more of its corners than any other street, 19 each of 165.

Street map of Tribeca-Civic Center, Manhattan, outlined among Financial District-Battery Park City, SoHo-Little Italy-Hudson Square and Chinatown-Two Bridges, with its eight subway stations and City Hall Park.SoHo-Little Italy-Hudson SquareChinatown-Two BridgesFinancial District-Battery Park City
  • Tribeca-Civic Center
  • A neighboring area
  • Park
  • A station in the list
  • Another station

Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Subway stations

  • Canal St lines 1
  • Canal St lines A C E
  • Franklin St lines 1
  • Canal St lines J N Q R W Z
  • Chambers St lines 1 2 3 accessible
  • City Hall lines R W
  • Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall / Chambers St lines 4 5 6 J Z accessible
  • Chambers St / Park Place / World Trade Center lines 2 3 A C E

Getting around

Eight subway stations and buses on 31 routes stop in or at the edge of Tribeca-Civic Center.

  • 8 subway stations
  • 2 of them listed by the MTA as fully accessible
  • 6 local bus routes
  • 25 express bus routes

Local bus routes

  • M9
  • M15
  • M20
  • M22
  • M55
  • M103

Express bus routes

  • BM1
  • BM2
  • BM3
  • BM4
  • BxM18
  • QM7
  • QM8
  • QM11
  • QM25
  • QM65
  • SIM1
  • SIM1C
  • SIM2
  • SIM3C
  • SIM4
  • SIM4C
  • SIM7
  • SIM9
  • SIM15
  • SIM32
  • SIM33
  • SIM33C
  • SIM34
  • X27
  • X28

Safety record

Between 2021 and 2025, its corners averaged fewer police-reported crashes than the average Manhattan corner.

  • 1,379 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 8.4 a corner, on average
  • 13.4 the average Manhattan corner
  • 23 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 36 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
15
Accessible pedestrian signals
13
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
13
Turn calming
7
Safety Improvement Projects
1

Camera tickets

In 2025 its corners had more bus-lane camera tickets than school-zone speed or red-light tickets.

  • 0 red-light camera tickets
  • 808 school-zone speed camera tickets at one corner
  • 20,864 bus-lane camera tickets at two corners
Most speed tickets
Canal Street & Laight Street, 808
Most bus-lane tickets
Broadway & Park Row at Barclay Street, 16,416

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 25,390 residents in Tribeca-Civic Center, about 51,800 per square mile.

  • 11,994 homes, 2020 Census
  • 2,371 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 622 residential lots hold buildings from 1895 or earlier, and 88% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

Parks and landmarks

Parkland
16 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
City Hall Park (9.4 acres), Washington Market Park (2.2 acres) and Thomas Paine Park (1.9 acres)
Designated landmarks
The Fleming Smith Warehouse, the Long Distance Building, the Ahrens Building and the New York Life Insurance Building, among others
Historic districts
African Burial Ground & The Commons, Tribeca East, Tribeca North, Tribeca South, Tribeca South Extension and Tribeca West, wholly or partly within Tribeca-Civic Center

Streets and trees

Trees
1,654 in NYC Parks' records, most often thornless honeylocust, London planetree and Japanese zelkova
Street with the most corners
Greenwich Street, with 19 of the area's 165
Height above sea level
From 5 feet at Washington Street & Barclay Street to 40 feet at Park Row & Centre Street
Honorary street names
12 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists ten schools and one library in Tribeca-Civic Center.

Public schools
5
Charter and private schools
5
Library
New Amsterdam Library

Bike share and public art

By the station list of October 3, 2026, 23 bike-share stations stand in Tribeca-Civic Center. The City's public art inventory lists eight works in the area, among them City Hall Park Fountain (1871), Nathan Hale (1893) and Abraham De Peyster (1896).

  • 23 bike-share stations
  • 8 works of public art

Places the City draws by name in this area: Tribeca.

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 467 major felonies at places in Tribeca-Civic Center.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Tribeca-Civic Center

  • 442 major felonies in 2024
  • 2,187 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Tribeca-Civic Center, the NYPD recorded another 102 major felonies.

Police precincts
1st (most of the area), 5th
Major felonies recorded at places in Tribeca-Civic Center, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 266 major felonies at places in Tribeca-Civic Center, against 215 in the same months of 2025.

Sources: the NYPD's Complaint Data Historic, updated April 28, 2026, and Complaint Data Current (Year To Date), updated July 27, 2026, on NYC Open Data. Figures to June 30, 2026.

Street corners

How the figures above are measured: Methodology.