Downtown News

It'll be magic time once again Thursday, Dec. 3, as Mayor Jacques Roy and the city of Alexandria usher in the holiday season with the annual Holiday Magic Downtown.

Deutschebank NEW YORK CITY-One year ago to the month, the Borough of Manhattan Community College's 15-floor reminder of 9/11's horrors stood stubbornly shrouded with its protective netting at Barclay Street and West Broadway.

Ron Burbick grew up near here and grew rich here. Then, in retirement, he grew restless here.

New Haven's newest clothing store - and first vegan fashion shop - will offer shoes made from recycled flat screen TVs.

Kellie B. Gormly can be reached via e-mail or at 412-320-7824. On Saturday, Pittsburghers can head to the streets of Downtown and enjoy a 29-year tradition: The colorful parade that winds through the heart of town.

Flat Rock Playhouse's new holiday musical, "It Happened One Christmas," will make its world premiere, Wednesday, Dec.

Broadway star Brian Stokes Mitchell will sing with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir on its popular Christmas concerts.

When New York dancer-choreographer Carrie Ahern had a falling out with the academics whoa d offered to support her work, the market came to the rescue: Capstone Equities provided free rehearsal space in an underground bank vault near the New York Stock Exchange .

As reported here earlier this month, the State Department of Environmental Conservation held a public hearing in lower Manhattan on November 10 on its proposal to permit hydraulic fracturing for natural gas in the heart of New York City's water supply.

A A The Big Apple Long referred to as the center of American business, New York is a melting pot of cultures and landscapes.

The Laurie Beechman Theatre, located within The West Bank Caf , is pleased to continue our Friday night soiree, THE AFTER PARTY.

The tough economy is hitting everyone. It is impacting budgets and local business, but we found more business owners are taking a chance downtown.

New York City office workers who got carried away during the Yankees victory parade Friday apparently began tossing files and documents out the window when they couldn't get their hands on confetti.

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.