Archive for the ‘News Clips’ Category

News Clips: December 5-9, 2011

Friday, December 9th, 2011

Shedding an Antiquated Design: ‘Urban Umbrella’ Aims to Replace Unsightly Sidewalk Construction Shelter
The Broadsheet
Yesterday, a new sidewalk shed went on display in front of 100 Broadway, a 24-story building owned by Madison Capital. “With nearly 20 ‘Re: Construction’ public art installations up for viewing below Chambers Street, Lower Manhattan is no stranger to finding innovative ways to recast construction sites as canvases for innovative public art and architecture,” said Alliance for Downtown New York President Elizabeth Berger at the press conference.

WTC Retail Site Among Crop of Downtown NY Venues Expected to Produce Record Sales Retail Traffic
One World Trade Center NYC
When the new retail hubs planned for the area surrounding the World Trade Center site finally come on line, New York brokers say they have the potential to be among the highest producing retail venues in the country.

News Clips: November 28-December 2, 2011

Friday, December 2nd, 2011

Downtown Alliance launches new Connection buses
The Downtown Express
Most of the Downtown Alliance’s fleet of new Connection buses are now circling the streets of Lower Manhattan, transporting riders between the South Street Seaport and Broadway near City Hall.

Showcasing Downtown
The Downtown Express
The Downtown Alliance launched an extensive print and outdoor advertising, direct mail, and promotional campaign showcasing Lower Manhattan this season.

Downtown Alliance launches Lower Manhattan holiday shopping campaign
Travel Blackboard
Alliance for Downtown New York President Elizabeth H. Berger, Department of Consumer Affairs Commissioner Jonathan Mintz and J & R Chief Executive Officer Rachelle Friedman officially kicked off the 2011 Holiday Shopping season in Lower Manhattan.


News Clips: November 21-25, 2011

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011

Shuttle Launch:Downtown Connection Fleet Has That New Bus Smell
The Broadsheet
The long-promised new fleet of Downtown Connection shuttle buses, which ferry Downtown residents and workers around the southern tip of Manhattan free of charge, arrived earlier this week.

News Clips: November 7-11, 2011

Friday, November 11th, 2011

Downtown Looking Up: The Offices of Wall Street Are Occupied Like It’s 2007!
The New York Observer
Wall Street may be occupied, but so are the commercial spaces surrounding it, according to a new report to be released tomorrow by the Downtown Alliance.

News Clips: September 12-16, 2011

Friday, September 16th, 2011

DOWNTOWN Magazine’s “App Of The Week”: Downtown Alliance App
Downtown Magazine
The Alliance for Downtown New York launched a mobile app on Friday, August 26th. The app, available in iTunes, has many features and was very useful in helping to notify Lower Manhattan residents with important information about Hurricane Irene several weeks ago.

Lower Manhattan resurgent
Real Estate Weekly
As president of the Downtown Alliance, the largest business improvement district in the United States, Elizabeth Berger has been one of Lower Manhattan’s biggest advocates.

Elizabeth Berger/President of the Downtown Alliance
Our Town Downtown
The Downtown Alliance, the Business Improvement District (BID) for Lower Manhattan, is a powerhouse of information and statistics. We sat down with Downtown Alliance President Elizabeth Berger to discuss their State of Lower Manhattan report and the BID’s work.

Rising from Ground Zero
PBS Nightly Business Report
The rebuilding and redevelopment of the World Trade Center site will continue well beyond this 10-year anniversary. But as Suzanne Pratt reports, the surrounding neighborhood is also evolving in some surprising ways.

Lower Manhattan Real Estate, Then and Now
AOL
To locals, Lower Manhattan is the buzz of Wall Street, the sights of Battery Park City and the heart of New York counter-culture. Over the past decade, the Downtown Alliance has tracked the area’s dramatic transformation.

News Clip: Downtown Manhattan Has Robust Recovery From Devastating Attacks

Friday, September 9th, 2011

NY 1

In a recent report, the Downtown Alliance found that found that while not all the jobs lost on 9/11 have come back, Downtown Manhattan is now home to 130 more businesses, and it’s not just Wall Street firms.

News Clip: Ten reasons why Lower Manhattan might be the city’s top new neighborhood

Friday, September 9th, 2011

The Daily News

Solely in place to further the growth of Lower Manhattan, the Downtown Alliance is the strongest “business improvement district” in the United States. Its promotion of the neighborhood as a commercial, residential and cultural destination has helped turn this once quiet part of Manhattan into a 24-hour wonderland.

News Clip: After 9/11, Financial District Less Dominated By Finance

Friday, September 9th, 2011

The Huffington Post

The Financial District has transformed in the decade since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, which initially turned the downtown area into a scene of devastation and turmoil. New businesses and residents have moved in, imbuing a neighborhood once dominated by finance with a new measure of diversity.  From 2002 to 2010, the share of workers downtown employed in finance, insurance and real estate dropped from 33 percent to 28 percent, according to data from the Alliance for Downtown New York.

In name, the neighborhood is still the Financial District.  But experts say the city’s financial center of gravity has moved elsewhere.

News Clip: One Sept. 11 Lesson: A Little Bit of War Goes a Long Way

Thursday, September 8th, 2011

Business Week

There’ve been nine anniversaries of 9/11, each with a variable mixture of grief and pride. A report by the Downtown Alliance rejoices that “Lower Manhattan is Back—and Better Than Ever.”

News Clip: Assembly speaker hails downtown’s renewal

Thursday, September 8th, 2011

Crain’s New York Business

The greatest symbol of downtown’s transformation since the Sept. 11 attacks is not the Fulton Street Transit Center or the tenants flocking to the World Trade Center, according to state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver. It’s the school that opened Thursday morning in lower Manhattan.