Meaning of Tribeca

Man, I’ve gotten a lot of hits lately for “meaning of tribeca.” What do I look like, Robert DeNiro? Jeez, with the meaning of tribeca here. How do I know what it means? I mean, the words, yeah, it’s “triangle below canal.” That what you’re looking for, pal? Okay. Happy now? But, the meaning of Tribeca? I mean, what it means to be from Tribeca? Get outta here.

Now would be a good moment to recall a time when I was doing election work down in the Howard Beach section of the city, and some city union guys from District Council 37 were ferrying us around, showing us every restaurant where there’d been some famous mob hit or another, and one of the local sites was the basketball court where they used to play with Bobby DeNiro. “Bobby da Horse, dey called him.” Why was that, we asked? “Dunno, just Bobby da Horse. It’s just what we called him.”