Miscellaneous
Picture Downtown
A colleague recently was asking around trying to figure out how much of what we consider Lower Manhattan (below Chambers Street) is built on...
Picture Downtown
Not sure what movie this filming was for, but it makes for a sweet Picture Downtown imho. Got a favorite picture of Downtown? Send it to...
Picture Downtown
Check out this shot of the Brooklyn Bridge circa 1888. Trains went over the bridge from its opening until 1948. Incidentally, the bridge shares a...
Celebrating Downtown
Every year, on the first Saturday after the New Year, I gather my friends for a dinner. Not to celebrate times past, or the start of something new,...
Bee Careful What You Wish For
This is just my second blog post on the Downtown Diary and already I'm revealing my deepest, darkest secrets. I'm really into weather. I mean:...
Battery Gardens
Do you ever have trouble making up your mind about where to eat? If so, let me suggest Battery Gardens as an exceptional and often forgotten location...
Picture Downtown
Congratulations to the winner of the Super Bowl. Whoever you are (can you tell this was written before the game was played?) your parade will not be...
Picture Downtown
Looking for a "sign" of progress? Oh, that's rich. The W Hotel at 123 Washington Street just put up the signage for the restaurant that will occupy...
Construction Update – 1 WTC
Steel installation for One World Trade Center has reached the 20th floor equivalent level, raising the tower to 200 feet above street level, The ...
February at the Hive
We were so thrilled here at the Hive to be included in a feature by the New York Times City Room Blog on the coworking movement in NYC. You can...
