Picture Lower Manhattan: The 9/11 Memorial
The 9/11 Memorial is powerful, moving, beautiful -- and it may be easier to describe through a camera lens than to put into words. The top photo is...
News Clips: November 7-11, 2011
Downtown Looking Up: The Offices of Wall Street Are Occupied Like It’s 2007!The New York ObserverWall Street may be occupied, but so are the...
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...
Checks & Balances: Exhibit Explores Presidents and American Finance
By Kristin AguileraWhen President George Washington died in 1799, his financial assets included such luxury items as a custom-made chariot, a...
Picture Lower Manhattan: Duck Tales from the Winter Garden
It appears that not all the ducks have begun to fly south for the winter just yet! While Mother Nature is busy deciding whether autumn has actually...
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
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
By Liz BergerLower Manhattan is the city’s oldest—and also newest—neighborhood.It is where George Washington was inaugurated as President in...
Owen for Business
Welcome back to Owen for Business! I’m Michael Owen, and this will be the final installment of Owen for Business. I'm leaving the Alliance to...
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...
