Sit and Rest a Minute at the Alliance’s Tables and Chairs

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’re walking around the neighborhood and decide to post up at an inviting plaza full of red outdoor tables and chairs, you’ve got the Alliance to thank. As an amenity to the public, for more than 25 years, we’ve been setting out and maintaining the tables and chairs at Water and Whitehall Plaza, Coenties Slip Plaza, Gouverneur Lane, Albany Plaza and the bump-out on Broad Street by Exchange Place. Lower Manhattan visitors, residents and workers alike are invited to enjoy the outdoor seating from spring until the holiday season, weather permitting (note that this upcoming season, we’ll only be setting tables and chairs at Albany Plaza and Broad Street because of construction). You can even log onto our free wifi and get some work done al fresco — or just online shop, we won’t tell anyone.