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10 Parties to Ring in the New Year Downtown

10 Parties to Ring in the New Year Downtown

Shimmy your way into 2023 at any one of the blowouts taking place in the neighborhood. From sit-down dinners to casual eats, from all-night parties...

27 Lower Manhattan Movie Locations You Should Know

27 Lower Manhattan Movie Locations You Should Know

It might be a cliché, but NYC really is everybody's favorite movie setting. That's especially true for us at the Downtown Alliance, and what began...

“DEI Is Everyone’s Job”: Women’s Breakfast Tackles Diversity, Equity, Inclusion in the Workplace

“DEI Is Everyone’s Job”: Women’s Breakfast Tackles Diversity, Equity, Inclusion in the Workplace

Diversity, equity and inclusion have rapidly become top policy priorities in the workplace. But beyond the Instagram black squares and Notes app...

A Holiday Cocktail Bar Is Coming to Brookfield Place — and So Is Santa

A Holiday Cocktail Bar Is Coming to Brookfield Place — and So Is Santa

Here’s your chance to drink seasonal cocktails under 640 twinkling lanterns, and help out a good cause in the process. Brookfield Place is all...

About Those Curbside Containers That You’ve Seen Around the Neighborhood

About Those Curbside Containers That You’ve Seen Around the Neighborhood

Trash bags on the sidewalks have been an ongoing issue in our district and citywide. They block pedestrian traffic. They can get a little pungent....

Keep This Holiday Season Lit With a Visit to Wisdom Candles and More

Keep This Holiday Season Lit With a Visit to Wisdom Candles and More

There are few holiday gifts as simple and effective as a candle. Loved by moms, friends, roommates and cravers of a cozy home, it’s an impulse buy...

Where to Celebrate Hanukkah in Lower Manhattan

Where to Celebrate Hanukkah in Lower Manhattan

Six events where you and your family can observe this year’s Festival of Lights below Chambers Street. 1. Hanukkah on Ice at Pier 17The Seaport...

McNally Jackson Book Talk Uncovers the “Raw Deal” Behind the Meat Industry

McNally Jackson Book Talk Uncovers the “Raw Deal” Behind the Meat Industry

Among all the many other ways the meat industry is failing us, from environmental destruction to animal- and human-rights abuses, here’s one more...

A Holiday Cocktail Special From “Dine Around Downtown: Cooking at Home Edition”

A Holiday Cocktail Special From “Dine Around Downtown: Cooking at Home Edition”

Zoom in and join Rocco DiSpirito for a holiday cocktail special as he live-streams with head bartender Cameron Winkelman of Manhatta. To celebrate...

Tell All the Jean-Georges Fans That the Tin Building Is Open Seven Days

Tell All the Jean-Georges Fans That the Tin Building Is Open Seven Days

For months, champions of Jean-Georges Vongerichten anticipated the opening of the Tin Building (96 South Street). The famed chef's multi-floor foodie...

Four Winter Villages That’ll Transport You to the North Pole

Four Winter Villages That’ll Transport You to the North Pole

You might have noticed all the holiday cheer already being spread throughout the neighborhood, but one perennial activity that cannot be overlooked...

Rest in Peace, Robert Simko (1954–2022)

Rest in Peace, Robert Simko (1954–2022)

Robert Simko, publisher of Lower Manhattan’s longrunning community-news outlet The Broadsheet, died earlier this month at the age of 68. Since...