Once a 62-acre farm, Tribeca’s historical footprint also includes the Debrosses Street pier, the spot where, in 1775, General George Washington arrived in New York on his way to Boston to take command of the fledgling American Army.

Ninety years later, in 1865, the coffin containing the body of Abraham Lincoln arrived at this spot by ferry from New Jersey to be placed in a glass hearse and to be drawn by six horses across Canal Street and down Broadway to City Hall where over 500,000 people awaited it.