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Downtown Alliance in the News
Scroll down for press releases and Downtown Alliance President Elizabeth H. Berger's monthly Downtown Dialogue columns in the Downtown Express.
A Hive Buzzing with New Media Startups
Crain's New York Business
February 12, 2010
"People do appreciate that it is so much cheaper than renting your own office space in Manhattan," said Elizabeth Berger, president of the Downtown Alliance. "But what they really like is being able to work by themselves with others who are doing the same. They want a community--that hum of activity you hear in an office."
Dining Calendar
The New York Times
February 9, 2010
The Downtown Alliance’s Valentine’s Day culinary walking tour led off another season of Downtown Eats events.
Letter: The 9/11 Trial
The New York Times
February 2, 2010
Real Estate Board of New York President Steven Spinola and Downtown Alliance President Elizabeth H. Berger issued a response to a New York Times editorial that called the outcry over plans to hold the 9/11 trials in Lower Manhattan as "not-in-my-backyard-ism."
Working in the Company of Strangers
The New York Times
February 1, 2010
The Downtown Alliance’s Hive at 55 is one of a handful of coworking spaces that have sprouted up in New York.
9/11 trials will "wreak havoc" on nabe: REBNY
The Real Deal
January 27, 2010
Downtown Alliance chairman Robert R. Douglass and Real Estate Board of New York president Steven Spinola are urging the move of the September 11 attack trial out of Lower Manhattan. "The community has suffered enough," Douglass said.
Greenwich South Study Wins Progressive Architecture Award
Architect Magazine
January 20, 2010
The Downtown Alliance's Greenwich South urban design study poses a single question: What if… ? write Architect's editors. "The question is so simple, yet so integral to the progressive practice of architecture, that we applied it to all the recipients." It reflects "the simple truth that good design is no more or less than intelligent, bold speculation. Asking the right questions can lead to solutions that are worth celebrating."
New York's Architectural Eyesores Become Public Art
Fast Company
January 19, 2010
There's even more reason not to cringe at the cranes and diss the dumpsters: just think of them as public art.
Bringing Some Whimsy to Construction Sites
The New York Times
January 15, 2010
Downtown Alliance president Elizabeth H. Berger is using art to improve daily life. With materials like fencing or construction barriers as a canvas, she said, she hopes to create "a little cheer, whimsy and excitement."
A Better Walk Through the Garage?
Downtown Express
December 11, 2009
Downtown Alliance President Elizabeth H. Berger told Community Board 1 that it's time to make the Battery Tunnel Garage more pedestrian-friendly.
Perfect Paper
The New Yorker
November 16, 2009
Ian Parker accompanies the Downtown Alliance on a 5am confetti delivery run for a Talk of the Town story.
Float Hopes; Parade Brings Extra Business to NYC Merchants
Fox Business.com
November 6, 2009
Downtown Alliance Chief Operating Officer Bill Bernstein discusses how to prepare for a parade that typically involves more than 30 tons of confetti.
NYC Celebrates Pinstripe Glory
The New York Post
November 6, 2009
Downtown Alliance sanitation workers bag confetti for the Yankee victory parade in a New York Post photo.
Unlike Paris, NYC's Free Bikes Survived the Summer
NewYorkology.com
November 3, 2009
Though Paris’ bike sharing program is fraught with theft and vandalism, Lower Manhattan's Bike Around Downtown isn't.
Can "Greenwich South" Revitalize the "Lower West Side"?
Metropolis Magazine
October 1, 2009
The Downtown Alliance has a vision for the 23-block area south of the World Trade Center site, known as Greenwich South.
Filling Downtown's Donut Hole
The Architect's Newspaper
September 20, 2009
The Downtown Alliance's Greenwich South study envisions the long-neglected area as a catalyst for a new "Lower West Side."
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