Downtown News

The downtown holiday season will get a Wicked start Nov. 19 when the cast of the namesake Broadway show serenades the annual tree lighting ceremony.The free performance at Barney Allis Plaza by the traveling company of Wicked is a special wrinkle in the annual City Lights event sponsored by the Downtown Council.

The Weekly Carnage is a Friday round-up of motor vehicle mayhem across the metro region.

Almost indisputably, the mayoral race this year was a desert of big new ideas for New York City.

Central New Yorkers on Saturday will have a chance to see what may be one of the last flyovers by F-16 jets from the New York Air National Guard's 174th Fighter Wing.

The ticker tape will come out for the Yankees to celebrate their World Series title.

The New York Public Library will become the permanent home of the personal papers of Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist E. Annie Proulx and Hilary Knight, the artist who drew the iconic character Eloise he co-created with author Kay Thompson.

The U.S. Coast Guard is offering online broadcasts of public meetings on a proposed rulemaking for ballast water discharge standards.

Being a book-lover herself, GO Girl is no stranger to Brooklyn's literary scene.

The Supreme Court will not hear a case brought by property owners who are slated to lose their land to make room for Bruce Ratner's Atlantic Yards project - but the property owners say they will take their case through New York State's court system, which has traditionally not been sympathetic to property owners in eminent domain cases.

Stagehands at New Yorka s largest downtown dance venue voted yesterday to join the same union that represents workers on Broadway and at such venues as Carnegie Hall .

Homeless men ate breakfast last week at the site of a proposed $6.1 million park planned at the southwest corner of Harbor Drive and Pacific Highway.

Late Night Theatre at Beowulf Alley, 11 South 6th Avenue, Downtown between Broadway and Congress, presents Athene by Michael Fenlason.

Residents of Tribeca's 6 Varick Street are up in arms against New York Law School , which has been keeping the lights on 24/7 since the spring.

TODAY through-Sun. Oct. 18, CLE: 3rd Annual Empire City Invitational Mock Trial International high school mock trial tournament.

"I think every hotel has a psyche." That was Jason Pomeranc, who, as co-founder of Thompson Hotels, has fashioned himself New York's innkeeper to the image-conscious. Last Friday afternoon, he arrived promptly to his newish hotel in New York, the 100-room Smyth Tribeca at 85 West Broadway, dressed for the part: rumpled and rough shaven, dark hair ...

Last Thursday night mayoral candidate Bill Thompson braved the wind and rain to join residents of Hudson Square and North TriBeCa neighborhoods to rally against the Department of Sanitation's planned garbage-truck garage on Spring Street and Washington Street on the lower west side.

At the end of a dark passageway at the Port Authority Bus Terminal, almost 50 artworks have suddenly parked in a bright, spare gallery.

Our Downtown Lunch man Daniel Krieger is taking some time off , so Ia m turning to a couple of new Downtown Lunchers to pick up the slack.A The past few weeks youa ve been treated to Luncha er Kevina s thoughts on deli ramen and bourbon chicken.

STAR MAGIC: THE SECOND GENERATION is what longtime Noe Valleyan Robert Hanfling is calling the space he has rented from Elisa Ining in front of her venerable Health Spa at 4028 24th Street.

Whether you're visiting New York City soon or live there and want to do some sightseeing, consider taking a tour of New York City's prestigious churches.