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TRIBECA, BATTERY PARK
It's the city's new comeback kid and Battery Park - Better than Before is this neighborhood's new mantra. Residential occupancy rates, which dropped to 60 percent immediately following 9/11, have soared to 96 percent -- higher than they were on September 10, 2001.
The speedy resettlement of Battery Park is a testament to New Yorkers' desire to live here. Covering more than ninety acres at the southernmost tip of Manhattan, Battery Park is a neighborhood filled with generous stretches of green, treelined streets and picture postcard views of the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island and Governor's Island. Residents enjoy the quiet calm of this self-contained neighborhood-without-the-Manhattan-feel that seems more suburban than urban - and its super with or without children. Residents enjoy waterfront walks, biking along the esplanade and the chance to explore the galleries and restaurants of nearby Tribeca.
Open-air concerts at the South Street Seaport and the Winter Garden at the World Financial Center along with boats that sail off to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. The new Ritz-Carlton, Castle Clinton National Monument, the newly dedicated Irish Hunger Memorial - and in fall 2003, the Museum of Jewish Heritage will open the new East Wing.
Running west from the Hudson River to Broadway north of Vesey Street is TriBeCa. A vibrant mix of residential and commercial living, it 's luxury high-rise apartments and spacious lofts alongside cast-iron architecture found on the warehouse-lined streets that beg for entertaining on the grandest scale. Locals love living among all the galleries, top restaurants and cool celebs like Harvey Keitel, Robert DiNiro and Mariah Carey who call this neighborhood home. It's safe, it has great schools and it's no more than 15 minutes from Midtown.
Basically every top restaurant in town is here like Nobu on Hudson and Montrachet on West Broadway. Food shopping is fun at Bazzini's on Greenwich Street (DiNiro shops there) and Dean & DeLuca on Broadway and Prince. Cool celebs and heirloom tomatoes aside, TriBeCa is peopled mostly by professionals in their 'forties and up' including a lot of families due in part to P.S. 234.
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