Meet a Lower Manhattan Business: SamSara Café
SamSara Café strives to bring the outdoors inside, borrowing on its founders’ love of horticulture and eclectic food. “The menu changes...
New Re:Construction Installation Comes to Historic Chase Manhattan Plaza
It’s a city within a city – in Lower Manhattan.While the renowned Chase Manhattan Plaza undergoes a facelift this year, the Downtown Alliance’s...
Lights On…In Lower Manhattan
By Kelly RushSummer officially has begun, and just in time, we have a renovated playground open for children who aren’t stuck in a hot classroom,...
Open space in the City
By Kelly RushAmong the cracks in the pavement, beyond terraced rows of glass and rebar, sunshine, speckled more from the patterns of buildings than...
Picture Lower Manhattan: Spring into Summer
Ah, the warm weather is just toasting Lower Manhattan today – and tomorrow. So as Spring headed into Summer, we headed out to explore the area and...
Refreshing Deal on a Warm Day
It’s the first day of summer so we’ve secured a nice, cool Downtown Deal for you. Drop by Bennie’s Thai Café today for lunch, mention the...
21st Century Recycling Comes to Lower Manhattan
Whether you are visiting, working, or living in Lower Manhattan, now you can recycle in style.Starting this month, a new high-tech recycling bin is...
River To River® Festival Launches 2012 Summer Season in Lower Manhattan
Philip Glass Ensemble. Trisha Brown Dance Company. Bang on a Can Marathon. Eddie Palmieri. Alarm Will Sound. George Clinton & Parliament...
Water Street Awash in Flags
The sounds of sirens, bagpipes and cheering children enveloped Water Street Thursday afternoon. It was time for Lower Manhattan’s 2012 Flag Day...
Welcome to the City’s Oldest – And Newest – Hotel District
By Liz Berger When I visited the gorgeous new Conrad New York a few weeks ago, I was reminded that though I have lived downtown for 30 years, I have...
