by Dan Metz | Sep 10, 2019 | Culture, Featured, Movies
Poster courtesy of HBO I was ten years old on September 11th, 2001. It was a big day of firsts for me. It was, for example, the first time that I experienced a feeling of unreality surrounding an unbelievable moment. I was, however, very young and 130 miles away,...
by Dan Metz | Sep 8, 2019 | Culture, Entertainment, Events, Featured, Music
Members of Kid Le Chat and Blac Rabbit pose with Dustin Pittman, Downtown editors, and Downtown’s CEO. All photographs by Alice Teeple On Friday, September 6th, bands took the stage as part of the 2019 World Trade Center Music Festival. Bands like Kid Le...
by Downtown Magazine | Sep 3, 2019 | Culture, Events, Featured, Living, Music
Photo by Silverstein Properties It’s been 18 years since September 11th and Lower Manhattan is stronger than ever. Our World Trade Center shines like a proud beacon for all the world to see. This year WTC Silverstein Properties and Downtown Magazine have...
by Dan Metz | Aug 31, 2019 | Culture, Featured, Movies
I’m Leaving Now Four hundred years ago we were introduced to Don Quixote, an adventurer who fled the mundane world for imagined battles with wizards and giants. From the opening of “I’m Leaving Now,” it is clear that directors Lindsey Cordero and Armando Croda...
by Lucy Dondero | Aug 31, 2019 | Art, Culture, Featured, Music, Theater
MAGGIE BOEPPLE A graduate of Brooklyn College, Boepple joined The Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center (PAC@WTC) in 2012 as President/Director, following a distinguished international career in public service, administration, and government relations....
by Alice Teeple | Aug 29, 2019 | Culture, Featured, Music
Fire, to destroy all you’ve done. Fire, to end all you’ve become. The Amazon is ablaze, the West Village is so thick with humidity you can practically chew the air. The time is ripe for those queued outside Le Poisson Rouge to descend underground, and bear...
