Downtown News – COVID 19

Downtown News – COVID 19

Downtown Alliance Opens Pearl Street As Part of City-Wide Open Streets  Beginning on Saturday, May 23, the Alliance for Downtown New York, the nonprofit business improvement district for Lower Manhattan, is partnering with the Department of Transportation to bring the...
Blake Charleton Keeps It Fresh

Blake Charleton Keeps It Fresh

By Alice Teeple Photos by Alice Teeple What sounds blare from passing cars as you walk down the street? The wham-boom of eardrum-shattering bass. Monotonous mumble rap. The prefab autotune wasteland beckoning erstwhile partygoers. The dreamy music of Blake Charleton...
Downtown’s Areppas Survival Guide

Downtown’s Areppas Survival Guide

Photo credit Oleg March A second Areppas restaurant has opened in Downtown Manhattan. We at Downtown are offering our readers an Areppas survival guide to help you celebrate. What are arepas? Every culture has its flatbread food. If you’ve heard anyone argue whether...
Artist To Watch: Natalie Clark

Artist To Watch: Natalie Clark

Natalie Clark By Alice Teeple Scene: Hot August night, secret location in SoHo.  A hundred people sit on the floor, eagerly awaiting the show. A petite, raven-haired woman enters the room with a merry wave and vermillion red smile.  She thumps her guitar,...

UP AND AWAY

TWA Hotel – Landing Soon MCR and MORSE Development are reigniting the magic of Eero Saarinen’s landmarked 1962 TWA Flight Center at JFK Airport, restoring and reimagining it as a first-class hotel. The former Trans World Flight Center, which opened in 1962 in the...
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