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Shopping & Dining for the Holidays

Shopping & Dining for the Holidays

Lower Manhattan has arrived as one of the most dynamic and successful live-work communities in the world, which means there is no better place to...

Art at Hive Explores Fragile Balance Between Creativity and Fiscal Fitness

Art at Hive Explores Fragile Balance Between Creativity and Fiscal Fitness

For a year and a half the walls of the Hive have remained colorful, yet bare.  We always hoped to have local artists display their work, but the...

Greening Bowling Green

Greening Bowling Green

More than 30 Con Edison employees and contractors teamed up with the Alliance for Downtown New York for the fourth annual Fall Community Planting Day...

Futures and Options Rings the NYSE Closing Bell

Futures and Options Rings the NYSE Closing Bell

Yesterday was a big day for Futures and Options, the New York City youth career-readiness nonprofit launched by the Downtown Alliance. Stephen...

Putting Down Roots Here? Join Us at Bowling Green

Putting Down Roots Here? Join Us at Bowling Green

By Liz BergerLower Manhattan is the city’s oldest—and also newest—neighborhood.It is where George Washington was inaugurated as President in...

Geranium Lovers Occupy Bowling Green Park!

Geranium Lovers Occupy Bowling Green Park!

The rain held off yesterday and nearly 4,000 Bowling Green Park geraniums found themselves in the arms of thousands of Lower Manhattan residents and...

A League of Their Own

A League of Their Own

The Downtown Soccer League formally kicked off the fall season this weekend with the reopening of the new turf field in Battery Park City. In...

THE POST-9/11 TRIUMPH OF LOWER MANHATTAN

THE POST-9/11 TRIUMPH OF LOWER MANHATTAN

By Liz BergerLower Manhattan is back—and better than ever.On September 11, 2001, the worst terrorist attack ever on American soil took 2,752 ...

Downtown Alliance Launches New Public Art in Shadow of 4 WTC

Downtown Alliance Launches New Public Art in Shadow of 4 WTC

Art lovers can now "walk" to "work" in Lower Manhattan. Only a few blocks from the international installation Walking Men 99™ is the newest...

Downtown Alliance Launches New iPhone App

Downtown Alliance Launches New iPhone App

After relaunching its website earlier this year, the Downtown Alliance  created its first-ever iPhone app  called Downtown NY.  It’s available...

Wi-Fi Meandering Part III

Wi-Fi Meandering Part III

This is the third and final part of my Wi-Fi meandering to check out the status of our Wi-Fi hotspots and to make sure they were all in good shape.We...

The State of Lower Manhattan a Decade Later

The State of Lower Manhattan a Decade Later

The eyes of the world are on Lower Manhattan as we near the 10th anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center. And what they will see is...