by DOWNTOWN News | Oct 28, 2025 | Downtown Living, Downtown News, Family
How DOWNTOWN’s Contributing Family & Lifestyle Editor Brianne Manz manages to keep it all together through a hurricane. Happy Halloween week everyone! I feel like I’ve dropped the ball on Halloween this year. The kids are literally going their separate ways,...
by Riya Duddi | Aug 5, 2025 | Downtown Living, Health, NYC, Outdoor
Game. Set. Match. The 10th Annual Brookfield Place Open is in full swing. Over the course of two weeks, the Waterfront Plaza at Brookfield Place will transform into an open-air tennis court with skyline views and programming in partnership with the Tennis Channel....
by DOWNTOWN News | Jul 16, 2025 | Culture, Downtown Living, Downtown News, Outdoor
Reposted with permission from Alliance for Downtown New York. Wagner Park is reopening this summer, and it’s something to sing about. The park, which has been closed since March 2023 for resiliency improvements, will burst back to life on July 29 with a slate of free...
by DOWNTOWN News | Jul 14, 2025 | Business, Downtown Living, Shopping
Photos: BrakeThrough Media The Meatpacking District Management Association (Meatpacking BID) recently unveiled a new promenade on 14th Street between 9th and 10th Avenues, in partnership with the Department of Transportation and other city partners. This ‘third...
by Cade Callen | Oct 2, 2024 | Culture, Dining, Downtown Living, News, NYC
Photos provided courtesy of Dîner en Blanc. Fifth Avenue looks as it usually does in its stolid gray tuxedo before turning a right onto 17th street where I am flanked by an explosion of head to toe, white clad effervescent party goers. With Dîner en Blanc, the party...
by DOWNTOWN News | Aug 19, 2024 | Art, Culture, Downtown Living, NYC
If Patti Smith is the godmother of punk, then Lenny Kaye is its godfather. But he is also a writer, composer, record producer, and the keeper of an encyclopedic knowledge of rock n’ roll. He lives and breathes it, and his timeline coincides with the origins of...
