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Downtown Alliance Rolls out Electric Bikes for Public Safety Officers

Downtown Alliance Rolls out Electric Bikes for Public Safety Officers

The Alliance for Downtown New York’s security force is going green—and electric. The Downtown Alliance has introduced four electric...

Downtown Alliance Welcomes Imagination Playground to Lower Manhattan

Downtown Alliance Welcomes Imagination Playground to Lower Manhattan

Mayor Bloomberg and architect David Rockwell joined local officials and a crowd of more than 50 summer campers from around New York City to open...

Alliance for Downtown New York Statement on Port Authority World Trade Center Ratification Vote

Alliance for Downtown New York Statement on Port Authority World Trade Center Ratification Vote

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Board of Commissioners today ratified a series of agreements to ensure full restoration of the entire...

Downtown Alliance Statement on Progress at Fulton Street Transit Center

Downtown Alliance Statement on Progress at Fulton Street Transit Center

The Alliance for Downtown New York today issued the following statement after the Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced that underpinning...

DOWNTOWN DIALOGUE:  The Art of Rebuilding Lower Manhattan

DOWNTOWN DIALOGUE: The Art of Rebuilding Lower Manhattan

“The shapes arise!” Walt Whitman wrote. “Shapes of factories, arsenals, foundries, markets; shapes of the two-threaded tracks of...

Downtown Alliance Sponsors ‘DOWNTOWN EATS’ Food Tour in Lower Manhattan in June

Downtown Alliance Sponsors ‘DOWNTOWN EATS’ Food Tour in Lower Manhattan in June

WHO & WHATThe Alliance for Downtown New York is sponsoring the third event in its series of “DOWNTOWN EATS” food tours on June 27....

DOWNTOWN THIRD THURSDAYS” LECTURE SERIES FEATURES PROMINENT AUTHORS, ARCHITECTS, CIVIC LEADERS EXPLORING LOWER MANHATTAN THEMES

DOWNTOWN THIRD THURSDAYS” LECTURE SERIES FEATURES PROMINENT AUTHORS, ARCHITECTS, CIVIC LEADERS EXPLORING LOWER MANHATTAN THEMES

The Alliance for Downtown New York is proud to announce the schedule for its fifth annual Downtown Third Thursdays lecture series. The series...

Downtown Alliance Statement on Lower Manhattan Energy Program Extension

Downtown Alliance Statement on Lower Manhattan Energy Program Extension

Alliance for Downtown New York President Elizabeth H. Berger issued the following statement today after New York State Governor David A. Paterson...

Community Board 1 Embraces Principles of Downtown Alliance’s Plan to Strengthen

Community Board 1 Embraces Principles of Downtown Alliance’s Plan to Strengthen

The Alliance for Downtown New York today thanked Community Board 1 for supporting its proposal to strengthen the Water Street corridor through...

Downtown Alliance’s Hive at 55 Coworking Facility in Lower Manhattan Celebrates Six-Month Anniversary

Downtown Alliance’s Hive at 55 Coworking Facility in Lower Manhattan Celebrates Six-Month Anniversary

More than 150 budding entrepreneurs celebrated the six-month anniversary of the Hive at 55, the Alliance for Downtown New York’s co-working...

Leasing Activity Jumps in Lower Manhattan As WTC Redevelopment Progresses

Leasing Activity Jumps in Lower Manhattan As WTC Redevelopment Progresses

A report just released by the Alliance for Downtown New York finds that year-to-date leasing activity south of Chambers Street jumped 28 percent from...

TESTIMONY OF THE ALLIANCE FOR DOWNTOWN NEW YORK REGARDING CONSTRUCTION PROGRESS AT THE WORLD TRADE CENTER SITE AND THE FULTON TRANSIT CENTER

TESTIMONY OF THE ALLIANCE FOR DOWNTOWN NEW YORK REGARDING CONSTRUCTION PROGRESS AT THE WORLD TRADE CENTER SITE AND THE FULTON TRANSIT CENTER

Good afternoon Speaker Silver, Chairperson Brennan, Chairperson Brodsky and Chairperson Millman. I am Elizabeth H. Berger, president of the Alliance...