How To Do A Virtual Secret Santa

How To Do A Virtual Secret Santa

Due to the very-much-ongoing pandemic, in-person holidays are effectively canceled this year. The CDC has urged Americans to stay home, and with the...

‘Our High-End Whiskeys Are Selling Like Never Before’: Financial District Wine & Liquor Is Ready to Deliver Your Holiday Libations

‘Our High-End Whiskeys Are Selling Like Never Before’: Financial District Wine & Liquor Is Ready to Deliver Your Holiday Libations

It’s been a big year for liquor across the city, between pandemic-forced home bars, news-related stress drinking and skyrocketing post-election...

Get Free Masks at the Manhattan Youth Downtown Community Center

Get Free Masks at the Manhattan Youth Downtown Community Center

If you’re in need of some masks, the Manhattan Youth Downtown Community Center will be handing them out for free this week and next. Stop in front...

‘You Kind-Of Get Used to These Situations’: How O’Hara’s Continues to Survive in the COVID Era

‘You Kind-Of Get Used to These Situations’: How O’Hara’s Continues to Survive in the COVID Era

In 1992, O’Hara’s Pub survived a devastating fire that necessitated a six-and-a-half-month-long gut renovation. In 2001, the attacks on September...

‘A Great Option For Bringing People Together’: City Blossoms On Pivoting To Virtual Floral Design Classes During COVID

‘A Great Option For Bringing People Together’: City Blossoms On Pivoting To Virtual Floral Design Classes During COVID

If you’re in search of winter lockdown activities besides obsessively watching and rewatching the Princess Diana episodes of “The Crown” (not...

Give Thanks to Essential Workers This Year. You’re Going to Need Them.

Give Thanks to Essential Workers This Year. You’re Going to Need Them.

The 7 p.m. clap is long gone, overwhelmed by the protests for racial justice that took over the city this summer. In 2020 time, it feels like ages...

Testing, Flu Shots, Staying Home: How to Have a Safe, Healthy Holiday Season

Testing, Flu Shots, Staying Home: How to Have a Safe, Healthy Holiday Season

You’ve seen the headlines by now: we’re entering the high-risk holiday season just as COVID-19 cases are spiking all around the country....

Where To Find Free Grab-And-Go Meals In Lower Manhattan

Where To Find Free Grab-And-Go Meals In Lower Manhattan

With temperatures dropping and COVID-19 cases rising as New York City enters its second wave of the pandemic, New Yorkers shouldn’t also have to...

58 Ways To Support Lower Manhattan Businesses This Holiday Season

58 Ways To Support Lower Manhattan Businesses This Holiday Season

Holidays are a little different this year, with many people forgoing big family celebrations in favor of smaller, home-based events. All the more...

Lace Up Your Skates: Brookfield Place’s Ice Skating Rink Is Back for the Holidays

Lace Up Your Skates: Brookfield Place’s Ice Skating Rink Is Back for the Holidays

Don’t let the unseasonably summery weather fool you, for the holiday season has one of the city’s best socially-distanced perks: outdoor ice...

Warm Up With A Hot Plate Of Chicken Tikka Masala At Bombay’s Indian Restaurant

Warm Up With A Hot Plate Of Chicken Tikka Masala At Bombay’s Indian Restaurant

Like most eateries Downtown, Bombay’s Indian Restaurant (60 Pearl Street) typically relies on a steady stream of foot traffic from nearby office...

Salon DeLouie Is Still Here for Your Pre-Holiday Hair Styling

Salon DeLouie Is Still Here for Your Pre-Holiday Hair Styling

Salon DeLouie has been operating in the neighborhood for seven years, offering up cuts and colors to the busy workers of Lower Manhattan through good...