''The Tribeca Trib'' is a monthly newspaper and website covering Lower Manhattan. Named after the community where it started, the ''Tribeca Trib'' covers all

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neighborhoods below Canal Street, including

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, the Financial District, the Seaport/Civic Center and

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. Its monthly print edition is available in stores, banks, restaurants, residential buildings and distribution boxes in Lower Manhattan; an online version is updated throughout the month

History

Carl Glassman, a photojournalist and writer, had long harbored a fantasy to take over a small-town newspaper. In September 1994, he and his wife April Koral, a freelance writer, founded the ''Tribeca Trib''. The couple had moved to the Lower Manhattan neighborhood in 1979. In the beginning, Glassman served as sole reporter, photographer and layout person while Koral sold ads and oversaw production. For the first issues, they also delivered the paper themselves, using a borrowed van. The paper’s circulation grew from 7,000 to 15,000 and expanded its coverage to include much of

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below

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, including the Financial District,

, and the

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and Civic Center areas. Over the years it has garnered many awards from the

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and New York Press Association, including the NNA's highest award, for General Excellence, in 2009. It has also been recognized for its coverage of the Lower Manhattan community after the

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. The ''New York Times'' called it "the newspaper that has long helped make a community out of the neighborhood." By 1996, the paper was being quoted in ''

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'' and the ''

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''. Since, it has also been quoted by the''

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'', ''

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''.

References

External links

''The Tribeca Trib''

"Facebook page"

"''Tribeca Trib'' Candidate Q&A : Part 1 of 3"

Carl Glassman, ''

'', July 14, 1996 {{DEFAULTSORT:Tribeca Trib, The Newspapers established in 1994 Newspapers published in New York City