South Street Seaport Welcomes Artion Gallery with Carmen Molina’s “Undercurrents” Photo Exhibition
By: Kayla BakenArtion is a family-owned gallery that started in Greece, and over the last 25 years, it has won a dominant role in American, European...
With neighbors working together, Downtown’s future is not so stormy
By Catherine McVay Hughes and Elizabeth H BergerThe last two weeks have proven again that the worst of Mother Nature cannot defeat Lower Manhattan.We...
South Street Seaport Museum Working To Reopen After Hurricane Sandy
In Susan Henshaw Jones’ words, Hurricane Sandy dealt the South Street Seaport Museum a “body blow.” The entire Seaport area was flooded and...
Compass Pointing Towards Art and Life in the Early 19th Century
Speaking of the spread of information, perhaps the most interesting part of the exhibit was the “Social Networking” display. As a frequent...
Meet a Lower Manhattan Business: SamSara Café
SamSara Café strives to bring the outdoors inside, borrowing on its founders’ love of horticulture and eclectic food. “The menu changes...
Lights On…In Lower Manhattan
By Kelly RushSummer officially has begun, and just in time, we have a renovated playground open for children who aren’t stuck in a hot classroom,...
Open space in the City
By Kelly RushAmong the cracks in the pavement, beyond terraced rows of glass and rebar, sunshine, speckled more from the patterns of buildings than...
River To River® Festival Launches 2012 Summer Season in Lower Manhattan
Philip Glass Ensemble. Trisha Brown Dance Company. Bang on a Can Marathon. Eddie Palmieri. Alarm Will Sound. George Clinton & Parliament...
Celebrate Cinco de Mayo
Lower Manhattan may not be famous for its Mexican heritage, but it knows how to celebrate when the occasion demands. In honor of Cinco de Mayo on...
Picture Lower Manhattan: One Seaport Plaza
A tree bends its branches toward One Seaport Plaza on a windy day in early April. The tree’s white blossoms are so thick they could be mistaken for...
