by Jeff Simmons | May 21, 2020 | Events, Featured, NYC
At a time when many New Yorkers are struggling to make ends meet, the nonprofit The Alliance for Positive Change is hosting a virtual event on July 30 to support its vital food and nutrition programs, which provide free meals to New Yorkers living with HIV/AIDS and...
by Downtown Magazine | Apr 2, 2020 | Dining, Doctors, Featured, Living, News, NYC, Restaurants
Our essential workers need fuel for their long, grueling shifts in NYC’s hospitals. We recognize three restaurants donating their time and efforts to help those who help us. Brooklyn Chop House (150 Nassau St.) in FiDi is making food deliveries to their...
by Alice Teeple | Mar 20, 2020 | Culture, Featured, Music
Today Johnny Dynamite (Whiner, Ashjesus) releases Wannabe, a dreamy, 80s-infused B-side from his 2020 album Heartbroken. Wannabe is ethereal and transcendent: a welcome, if melancholic motif for these chaotic times. It fits right at home in a veil-straddling David...
by Dan Metz | Nov 4, 2019 | Culture, Events, Featured
Photos by Eddy Garay Barktoberfest 2019 is over; everybody won. Well, we all got to see adorable dogs in great costumes, but only some of those dogs won prizes. Over the course of the evening, ten top dogs won nine prizes for their puppy parents. It was a tough...
by Downtown Magazine | Oct 2, 2019 | Events, Featured, News, Sports
After 10 hours of rowing around Manhattan, participants of Rocking the Boat’s “Rocking Manhattan” event on September 28th said they were ready for more. The 30-mile row in hand-made boats is a fundraiser for Rocking the Boat, a Bronx-based program. The $440,000 raised...
