-by Lee J. Stahl, President

In 1985, after graduating from college and on my way to law school, I made a detour and joined my stepfather in his small countertop and cabinetmaking business in Brooklyn, New York.

I remember the first day of work like it was yesterday. After 4 years of books, finals, tests and professors – the first task assigned to me was to wrap a set of cabinets and countertops that I had built and get them ready to ship. My next assignment – drive the truck into Williamsburg to deliver the tops – then back to the shop that afternoon to sweep up before calling it a day.

I remember getting home at 5 and being asleep that night by 6 – that one day seemed like more work to me than the entire collective of my college career. In the four years to come, I would learn how to make cabinets, design kitchens, sell renovations, make a payroll, collect receivables and basically get more of an education in business than all my college courses combined (and I attended a top-25 business school!).

But in May of 1989, my life and the lives of my family changed when my stepfather, on the fishing trip of his life, lost his life in a boating accident off the coast of Costa Rica.

Over the course of the next three years, myself and my mother (she runs our New York City showroom) began the emotional and arduous task of re-building our company into a viable business. In 1992, we were ready to make the next investment in our business – our first showroom in New York City.

A staggeringly large leap of faith given our circumstances, just three years before – but it was successful beyond our greatest expectations. Through our tremendous effort and long hours (as any business owner knows of) – we have built our company into one of the premier design/build firms in New York City.

While we have been making cabinetry for a select clientele over all these years, I identified the need in the marketplace for a truly well-made line of kitchen cabinetry, priced a bit lower than some of the major manufacturers – and delivered in a shorter amount of time.

In 2001 – we made a major capital investment in our company, Tribeca, which involved state- of-the-art machinery in order to carry out and produce my vision of the highest quality kitchen cabinet available.

We launched this product, 20 years of experience in the making, to a tremendous ovation by clients who really understand quality – and demand it in their purchases and don’t want to wait months and months for delivery.

We believe our cabinets are the finest made cabinets anywhere – offered at a price that cannot be competed against at this level – (at least we haven’t seen it yet).

We sincerely thank you for your interest in Tribeca and we hope to serve your high–end cabinetry needs in the near future.