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Year: 2016

Downtown Alliance Adds Seaport Drop-Off Stop  To FREE Bus Service The Downtown Connection

Downtown Alliance Adds Seaport Drop-Off Stop To FREE Bus Service The Downtown Connection

The Alliance for Downtown New York has extended the route of The Downtown Connection, Lower Manhattan's free bus service, with the addition of a...

Robert Douglass, Founding Chairman of the Alliance for Downtown New York and Civic Champion, Dies at 85

Robert Douglass, Founding Chairman of the Alliance for Downtown New York and Civic Champion, Dies at 85

The Alliance for Downtown New York mourns the loss of Founding Chairman Robert Douglass today. In addition to his seminal role as the Alliance's...

Third Quarter Lower Manhattan Leasing Activity  Led by Recommitting Tenants

Third Quarter Lower Manhattan Leasing Activity Led by Recommitting Tenants

Lower Manhattan's third quarter commercial real estate activity continued a local year-long trend with current tenants choosing to expand or move...

Young Professionals Shape Lower Manhattan’s Transformation

Young Professionals Shape Lower Manhattan’s Transformation

Lower Manhattan's young professional residents, a community of 30,000 people between the ages of 18-44, 70 percent of whom are millennials...

Private Sector Employment Reaches New Peak in Lower Manhattan; Up for Sixth Consecutive Year

Private Sector Employment Reaches New Peak in Lower Manhattan; Up for Sixth Consecutive Year

Private sector employment climbed to more than 232,200 employees as of the end of 2015, marking the sixth consecutive year of growth and the highest...

Downtown Alliance Kicks Off Game On! Block Party Series with  NYC Football Club, CompleteBody, DJ Hesta Prynn + More

Downtown Alliance Kicks Off Game On! Block Party Series with NYC Football Club, CompleteBody, DJ Hesta Prynn + More

The Alliance for Downtown New York kicks off the third annual Game On! block party series on Wednesday, July 13 with games, drinks and music taking...

Downtown Alliance Enlists 34 Lower Manhattan Restaurants   For GET LOW 2016 Deals

Downtown Alliance Enlists 34 Lower Manhattan Restaurants For GET LOW 2016 Deals

The Downtown Alliance is teaming up with 34 Lower Manhattan restaurants to kick off the third annual GET LOW campaign on Tuesday, June 21.  The...

Downtown Alliance Expands Public Wi-Fi To Cover Entirety Of Lower Broadway Corridor – Battery To Barclay St.

Downtown Alliance Expands Public Wi-Fi To Cover Entirety Of Lower Broadway Corridor – Battery To Barclay St.

The Alliance for Downtown New York has completed the latest phase of its ongoing Wi-Fi network expansion, adding more than 800,000 square feet, and a...

Downtown Alliance Brings 1,000+ Plants to Bowling Green

Downtown Alliance Brings 1,000+ Plants to Bowling Green

New York City's oldest public park Bowling Green got a horticultural makeover this past week as the Alliance for Downtown New York introduced...

Dine Around Downtown Showcases 45-Plus Lower Manhattan Restaurants on 28 Liberty Plaza

Dine Around Downtown Showcases 45-Plus Lower Manhattan Restaurants on 28 Liberty Plaza

Fosun Property and the Alliance for Downtown New York are pleased to co-present the “Dine Around Downtown” food festival, one of Lower...

U.S. Congressman Jerrold Nadler Stresses Importance of Securing Lower Manhattan Resiliency

U.S. Congressman Jerrold Nadler Stresses Importance of Securing Lower Manhattan Resiliency

At this morning’s Downtown-Lower Manhattan Association (D-LMA) annual meeting, Congressman Jerrold Nadler addressed the importance of continued...

Alliance for Downtown New York to Raise Minimum Wage for Entire Division of Uniformed Service Employees

Alliance for Downtown New York to Raise Minimum Wage for Entire Division of Uniformed Service Employees

The Alliance for Downtown New York today announced that all of the organization’s employees will receive a base wage of at least $15 an hour....