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A Dozen Reasons Why Lower Manhattan is the Place to Be

A Dozen Reasons Why Lower Manhattan is the Place to Be

There are certain things about Lower Manhattan most New Yorkers know: It’s a global center of commerce. It has narrow, winding streets, unlike...

Fall Community Planting Day

Fall Community Planting Day

Hundreds of community volunteers joined New York City Council Member Margaret Chin to plant tulips at Bowling Green Saturday during the third annual...

Meet a New Downtown Merchant: Carpenter Tan

Meet a New Downtown Merchant: Carpenter Tan

190 Front Street347-669-2662www.carpentertans.comThere are more than 850 branches of this chain in China, Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, Malaysia and...

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...