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Mess Around Downtown: October 18, 2010

Mess Around Downtown: October 18, 2010

Welcome back to Mess Around Downtown!Happy Autumn Downtowners! Well, it's official, Downtown retail has gone to the dogs. Read on below to find out...

Thousands Adopt Geraniums in Bowling Green Park

Thousands Adopt Geraniums in Bowling Green Park

Thousands of Lower Manhattan residents, workers and visitors showed up yesterday in Bowling Green Park to take home a free plant as the Alliance for...

Museum of American Finance to Display 18-Karat-Gold Monopoly Set

Museum of American Finance to Display 18-Karat-Gold Monopoly Set

What’s solid gold, covered with hundreds of precious gemstones, fun to play with and making its way to Lower Manhattan this week?  The world’s...

A Joyous First Year for Poets House in Battery Park City

A Joyous First Year for Poets House in Battery Park City

By Lee BriccettiOur first year in our new home in Battery Park City was a bustling, joyous debut, and it has given Poets House the momentum to plan...

Finding Your Way

Finding Your Way

Downtown Alliance provides wayfinding signage around Lower Manhattan

Mess Around Downtown: September 29, 2010

Mess Around Downtown: September 29, 2010

Welcome back to Mess Around Downtown!When you're done working and life is making you hungry, you can always go Downtown. Don't hang around and let...

When’s the Next Bus Arriving?  Downtown Alliance Has the Answer

When’s the Next Bus Arriving? Downtown Alliance Has the Answer

By Liz BergerNo more guessing games or neck-craning.Riders of the Downtown Connection—the Downtown Alliance’s free bus service in Lower...

A Greener, More Efficient Way to Patrol Downtown

A Greener, More Efficient Way to Patrol Downtown

The Alliance for Downtown New York is going where no Business Improvement District has gone before: We’re rolling out electric bikes. The Downtown...

Meet Downtown Alliance Public Safety Supervisor German Rosario

Meet Downtown Alliance Public Safety Supervisor German Rosario

Every day, German Rosario patrols the streets of Downtown, offering directions and guidance, and keeping the peace. And every day, he’s all...

Mess Around Downtown: September 8, 2010

Mess Around Downtown: September 8, 2010

Welcome back to Mess Around Downtown!Hello Downtowners. Even as the sun sets on summer in Lower Manhattan new retailers are settling in to their new...

Heaven in the Harbor

Heaven in the Harbor

By Liz BergerI often think that Lower Manhattan has everything in one square mile, so it should come as no surprise that there is a little bit of...

A Conversation With Re:Construction Artist Richard Pasquarelli

A Conversation With Re:Construction Artist Richard Pasquarelli

There’s a place in Lower Manhattan where the clouds float only a few feet above street level. Walk over to the corner of Barclay and Greenwich...