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Year: 2022

Lower Manhattan’s African Burial Ground Celebrates the Black Experience This Juneteenth

Lower Manhattan’s African Burial Ground Celebrates the Black Experience This Juneteenth

Sunday, June 19, marks Juneteenth, a day to commemorate the effective end of slavery in the United States. To honor this day, on June 18 the National...

Three Shows for Three Weeks: “Downtown Stories” Tickets Are Now on Sale

Three Shows for Three Weeks: “Downtown Stories” Tickets Are Now on Sale

Experience the city in a new light: En Garde Arts and the Downtown Alliance are presenting “Downtown Stories,” a series of three shows that are...

Thanks to Everyone for Coming to Dine Around Downtown!

Thanks to Everyone for Coming to Dine Around Downtown!

A big thank-you to everyone who came out and supported the restaurants that participated at Dine Around Downtown. Also: A round of applause to the 35...

The China Institute Wants to Introduce You to Some “Damn Good Chinese Food”

The China Institute Wants to Introduce You to Some “Damn Good Chinese Food”

Mark your calendars for June 15, when author and East Wing Snack Shop dumpling king Chris Cheung sits down with LUCKYRICE entrepreneur Danielle Chang...

The Brand-New Wall Street Hotel Has Old-School Lower Manhattan Appeal

The Brand-New Wall Street Hotel Has Old-School Lower Manhattan Appeal

Pearl Street just got a pearl of a new place to stay: The Wall Street Hotel just opened this month, giving visitors a chance to bask in old Financial...

10 Tasty Ice Creams to Cool You Downtown

10 Tasty Ice Creams to Cool You Downtown

Enjoying a cone or cup of excellent ice cream is an appropriate decision for any day, especially when perusing Lower Manhattan’s streets in June....

Discover the “Other Side of Wall Street” With the Black Gotham Experience

Discover the “Other Side of Wall Street” With the Black Gotham Experience

If you’re an armchair history buff who enjoys learning while taking in the great outdoors, a Lower Manhattan institution has a great offering: the...

To Celebrate Pride Month, Crank Up the Downtown Alliance’s Latest Spotify Playlist

To Celebrate Pride Month, Crank Up the Downtown Alliance’s Latest Spotify Playlist

Now’s your chance to blast some Janelle Monae the next time you’re wandering through Stone Street on your lunch break. To celebrate New York’s...

Meet the Local Business Owners Who Inspired “Downtown Stories”

Meet the Local Business Owners Who Inspired “Downtown Stories”

Weaving together history, fact and fiction, playwright Rogelio Martinez’s “Sidewalk Echoes”—running June 8-25 as part of the “Downtown...

Dine Around Downtown: Five Mocktails For When You Want to Wet Your Whistle

Dine Around Downtown: Five Mocktails For When You Want to Wet Your Whistle

For those of you rubbing your bellies in anticipation of the 35 restaurants heading to Fosun Plaza on June 7 — a perfect way to spend an afternoon...

A New Fraunces Tavern Exhibit Will Recreate America’s First Executive Offices

A New Fraunces Tavern Exhibit Will Recreate America’s First Executive Offices

Everyone knows Fraunces Tavern was an important site during the Revolutionary War, with George Washington among its famous patrons. What you might...

“There Isn’t Going to be a Cheap and Easy Solution”: LM Live Panel on How to Combat the Threat of Climate Change

“There Isn’t Going to be a Cheap and Easy Solution”: LM Live Panel on How to Combat the Threat of Climate Change

As we prepare for what meteorologists predict will be an unusually hot and hurricane-heavy summer, LM Live's second monthly Women's Breakfast, held...