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Check Out These Six Spring Additions To Cedar Local’s Cocktail Menu

Check Out These Six Spring Additions To Cedar Local’s Cocktail Menu

With spring in the air and vaccines in Lower Manhattanites’ arms, the mixologists at the neighborhood favorite Cedar Local (25 Cedar Street) wasted...

35 Places To Eat And Drink Within Five Minutes Of Downtown Live

35 Places To Eat And Drink Within Five Minutes Of Downtown Live

Downtown Live kicks off a two-weekend run on Saturday, May 15, with live, in-person performances in unexpected outdoor locations across the...

A List of the Public Bathrooms in Lower Manhattan

A List of the Public Bathrooms in Lower Manhattan

UPDATE, 11/1/2022: An updated list of Lower Manhattan restrooms can be found here!The warmer months have arrived, and we get it: you want to go...

Bar And Restaurant Curfews To Extend To Midnight

Bar And Restaurant Curfews To Extend To Midnight

The city that never sleeps has been a little sleepier over the last year, thanks in part to an 11 p.m. curfew for bars and restaurants amid the...

Bird-Watching At The Battery Returns On Wednesday Mornings

Bird-Watching At The Battery Returns On Wednesday Mornings

With nearly six million vaccinations administered in the city and the weather becoming tolerable on a regular basis, New Yorkers are on the lookout...

Ranked-Choice Voting: How Does It Actually Work?

Ranked-Choice Voting: How Does It Actually Work?

This year’s municipal elections bring with them a major sea change. Not only are we electing a new mayor, but we’ll also be electing a new...

Sign Up For The 9/11 Memorial’s Annual 5K Run/Walk And Community Day

Sign Up For The 9/11 Memorial’s Annual 5K Run/Walk And Community Day

Run or walk in commemoration of the nearly 3,000 lives lost on September 11 with the 9/11 Memorial & Museum, which is hosting its annual...

Devour Luscious Schnitzel at Lower Manhattan’s Destination Austrian Spot Schilling

Devour Luscious Schnitzel at Lower Manhattan’s Destination Austrian Spot Schilling

It seems like every day brings more good news of Downtown bars and restaurants that are once again welcoming in-person visitors. Case in point: the...

A Guide To Chinatown Eats: Where To Feast On Dumplings And Dim Sum Now

A Guide To Chinatown Eats: Where To Feast On Dumplings And Dim Sum Now

Some Chinatown highlights for where you can sit down — or do takeout — and feast on dumplings, dim sum and noodles in our beloved neighboring...

Josh Katz, Explorer-In-Chief, Moves In This Summer

Josh Katz, Explorer-In-Chief, Moves In This Summer

Street photographer Josh Katz — the lucky winner of the Downtown Alliance’s Explorer-in-Chief contest — will take his rightful place as Lower...

Zoom In And Learn How To Make Keste’s Margherita and Montanara Pizzas (Gluten-Free!)

Zoom In And Learn How To Make Keste’s Margherita and Montanara Pizzas (Gluten-Free!)

The next installment in the Downtown Alliance's "Dine Around Downtown: Cooking at Home Edition" comes Thursday, April 22, when Chef Roberto...

Five Mouth-Watering Reasons to Start Summer Early at Blue Smoke

Five Mouth-Watering Reasons to Start Summer Early at Blue Smoke

After a year stuck at home, we’re all a little bit sick of our own cooking, and craving dishes that are just never the same when we make them...