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Year: 2010

Finding Your Way

Finding Your Way

Downtown Alliance provides wayfinding signage around Lower Manhattan

Mess Around Downtown: September 29, 2010

Mess Around Downtown: September 29, 2010

Welcome back to Mess Around Downtown!When you're done working and life is making you hungry, you can always go Downtown. Don't hang around and let...

When’s the Next Bus Arriving?  Downtown Alliance Has the Answer

When’s the Next Bus Arriving? Downtown Alliance Has the Answer

By Liz BergerNo more guessing games or neck-craning.Riders of the Downtown Connection—the Downtown Alliance’s free bus service in Lower...

A Greener, More Efficient Way to Patrol Downtown

A Greener, More Efficient Way to Patrol Downtown

The Alliance for Downtown New York is going where no Business Improvement District has gone before: We’re rolling out electric bikes. The Downtown...

Meet Downtown Alliance Public Safety Supervisor German Rosario

Meet Downtown Alliance Public Safety Supervisor German Rosario

Every day, German Rosario patrols the streets of Downtown, offering directions and guidance, and keeping the peace. And every day, he’s all...

Mess Around Downtown: September 8, 2010

Mess Around Downtown: September 8, 2010

Welcome back to Mess Around Downtown!Hello Downtowners. Even as the sun sets on summer in Lower Manhattan new retailers are settling in to their new...

Heaven in the Harbor

Heaven in the Harbor

By Liz BergerI often think that Lower Manhattan has everything in one square mile, so it should come as no surprise that there is a little bit of...

A Conversation With Re:Construction Artist Richard Pasquarelli

A Conversation With Re:Construction Artist Richard Pasquarelli

There’s a place in Lower Manhattan where the clouds float only a few feet above street level. Walk over to the corner of Barclay and Greenwich...

Meet Downtown Alliance Sanitation Supervisor Carl Homward

Meet Downtown Alliance Sanitation Supervisor Carl Homward

Every day at 4:00 AM, Carl Homward begins his hour-long commute from Canarsie, Brooklyn to Lower Manhattan, where he serves as Sanitation Supervisor...

Go Green With Kermit on the Elevated Acre Thursday Night

Go Green With Kermit on the Elevated Acre Thursday Night

Have you heard?The Muppets are once again taking Manhattan—and the Elevated Acre at 55 Water Street! Thursday night marks the conclusion of the...

Top 10 Things to Learn About Financial Scandals

Top 10 Things to Learn About Financial Scandals

Financial scandals have been making headlines over the last decade, and now they are on public display in Lower Manhattan.  The Museum of American...

Downtown’s Newest Dining Room

Downtown’s Newest Dining Room

Midtown may have Pop-Tarts, but Downtown has a pop-up.Just in time for refreshing fall weather, the New York City Department of Transportation has...