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LOWER MANHATTAN It All Starts Here – Spring 2015

LOWER MANHATTAN It All Starts Here – Spring 2015

2015 is an important year for the Alliance and for Lower Manhattan. Several major transformative projects that we have championed are...

LOWER MANHATTAN It All Starts Here – Spring 2014

LOWER MANHATTAN It All Starts Here – Spring 2014

The opening of the National September 11 Memorial Museum in May was a pivotal and intensely emotional occasion — a mixture of unbearable sadness...

LOWER MANHATTAN It All Starts Here – Fall 2013

LOWER MANHATTAN It All Starts Here – Fall 2013

For the past several years, on this page, you would find a message from the former President of the Alliance for Downtown New York, Elizabeth Berger....

LOWER MANHATTAN It All Starts Here – Spring 2013

LOWER MANHATTAN It All Starts Here – Spring 2013

Spring is in the air in Lower Manhattan! It’s a time for shedding any winter blues and winter clothes and stepping outside to a crisp breeze...

LOWER MANHATTAN It All Starts Here – Winter 2013

LOWER MANHATTAN It All Starts Here – Winter 2013

December 31st will mark my 30th year living below Fulton Street, and I’ve worked here for many of those years as well.

LOWER MANHATTAN It All Starts Here – Fall 2012

LOWER MANHATTAN It All Starts Here – Fall 2012

I just went to my 30th college reunion, yet I still organize my year by the school calendar! Just as I’m settling into Lower Manhattan’s...

LOWER MANHATTAN It All Starts Here – Summer 2012

LOWER MANHATTAN It All Starts Here – Summer 2012

When I visited the gorgeous new Conrad New York last month, I was reminded that though I have lived downtown for 30 years, I have only stayed in a...

LOWER MANHATTAN It All Starts Here – Spring 2012

LOWER MANHATTAN It All Starts Here – Spring 2012

Our mission at the Alliance for Downtown New York is to advance Lower Manhattan as a global model for a 21st century central business district, a...

LOWER MANHATTAN It All Starts Here – Fall 2011

LOWER MANHATTAN It All Starts Here – Fall 2011

The holiday season is one of my favorite times of year, a time to appreciate what’s really important in life: family, friends and community.

LOWER MANHATTAN It All Starts Here – Summer 2011

LOWER MANHATTAN It All Starts Here – Summer 2011

The sun, the harbor, the acres of parkland, two waterfront esplanades and another on the way, eight museums, 18 hotels and one of the city’s...

LOWER MANHATTAN  It All Starts Here  Spring 2011

LOWER MANHATTAN It All Starts Here Spring 2011

As my father used to say, spring is sprung! Finally, the sun is out, the weather is warm(er) and, after what seemed like an endless winter, there are...

DESTINATION DOWNTOWN  Winter 2011

DESTINATION DOWNTOWN Winter 2011

New Year’s is a time to consider the past and make resolutions for the future, a time of reflection and dreaming, reckoning and optimism. As I...