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Mess Around Downtown: January 12, 2011

Mess Around Downtown: January 12, 2011

Welcome back to Mess Around Downtown!The time has come that I, The Mess, retire from my retail beat. No longer will I walk the streets of Lower...

Meet Our Staff: Joseph Timpone

Meet Our Staff: Joseph Timpone

Joseph Timpone is no stranger to Business Improvement Districts. His work with them began at the New York City Department of Sanitation before he...

Mulching in Lower Manhattan

Mulching in Lower Manhattan

It was a brisk, winter's day, but that didn't deter hundreds of Lower Manhattanites from taking part in the Downtown Alliance's annual MulchFest in...

Winter in Bowling Green

Winter in Bowling Green

It was only a few months ago when the Downtown Alliance hosted a Fall Community Planting Day in Bowling Green, and hundreds of folks turned out to pitch in. Well, a visit this weekend shows that things are holding up well, and so we cannot wait until the Spring thaw so we can get to work and watch thousands of tulips crop up. This weekend, we took a peek inside and saw that the ornamental kale that we planted is looking good. We cannot wait until Spring!

We Saw Lower Manhattan as an Opportunity Not Just to  Continue —   But to Start Something New

We Saw Lower Manhattan as an Opportunity Not Just to Continue — But to Start Something New

By Matt PellowskiMatt Pellowski is writer, director and producer at Red Line Studios in Lower ManhattanRunning a film production studio and post ...

Picture Downtown

Picture Downtown

Walking around during my lunch break yesterday,  I came across this group of tourists at the Bull on Bowling Green. It’s a small reminder of how...

Picture Lower Manhattan

Picture Lower Manhattan

Walking around during my lunch break yesterday,  I came across this group of tourists at the Bull on Bowling Green. It’s a small reminder of how...

A New Year’s Toast for Lower Manhattan

A New Year’s Toast for Lower Manhattan

By Liz BergerNew Year’s is a time to consider the past and make resolutions for the future, a time of reflection and dreaming, reckoning and...

Just Recycle Those Old Gadgets! Here’s an Easy Way to Do It

Just Recycle Those Old Gadgets! Here’s an Easy Way to Do It

By Caroline KruseCaroline Kruse is Development Director at the Lower East Side Ecology CenterIt may have been you, or maybe it was a friend of...

Just Recycle Those Old Gadgets! Here's an Easy Way to Do It

Just Recycle Those Old Gadgets! Here's an Easy Way to Do It

By Caroline KruseCaroline Kruse is Development Director at the Lower East Side Ecology CenterIt may have been you, or maybe it was a friend of...

Meet a Downtown Resident: Courtroom Artist Elizabeth Williams

Meet a Downtown Resident: Courtroom Artist Elizabeth Williams

Elizabeth Williams, one of New York City’s premier courtroom artists, is  a Lower Manhattan resident, second vice president of the 1st Precinct...

Digging Out Broad Street

Digging Out Broad Street

Crews were out in force on Monday morning in Lower Manhattan,  shoveling snow, salting sidewalks and keeping the neighborhood safe for workers,...