How Does Downtown Stay So Green? Our Horticulture Team! 

It’s our 30th anniversary, and we’re self-celebrating. Over the next few months, we’ll be rolling out 30 stories about 30 of our biggest accomplishments, including everything from our daily public safety and sanitation work, to our small business outreach, to how we helped the neighborhood navigate challenges and even tragedies. You’ll be able to find these stories on our website, as well as in our weekly newsletter, which you can subscribe to here. 

If you spot some beautiful greenery around the neighborhood, or a colorful flower bed that makes you stop in your tracks, chances are, you can thank the Alliance’s horticulture team. The Alliance designs and maintains a variety of seasonal plantings at Bowling Green, Mannahatta Park and Elizabeth H. Berger Plaza. It also oversees seasonal planting designs for light pole baskets along Broadway and Nassau Street. In addition, we maintain over 100 DOT planters by Bowling Green, Albany Plaza, Gouverneur Lane, the NYSE security zone and other locations throughout the district, as well as 23 rectangular planters along Greenwich Street. Our signature Greenwich Street planters add much-needed greenery along the corridor.

Our horticulture team also runs a volunteer program for locals interested in giving back, offering a number of events that help keep our public spaces looking their best. And budding gardeners flock to our annual free plant giveaways, where attendees can grab our Bowling Green plantings repotted in nursery pots — it’s a great way to take a piece of Lower Manhattan home with you!