by Samantha Doria | Jul 29, 2021 | Featured, NYC, Restaurants
You Dough-Not Want to Miss These Doughnuts This time on Downtown Highlights, we visited Dough, a brioche doughnut shop. Dough started as a small shop in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. Their popularity quickly grew, encouraging the opening of more shops across New York City. Now,...
by Marley Gifford | Jul 29, 2021 | Fashion, Featured
Meet Your Neighborhood Jewelry Co. That’s Putting the Whimsy Back Into Accessorizing Gen Z-ers and millennials know the grip that colorful beaded jewelry had on us in our adolescence. Our fashion identities were measured by how many charm bracelets, necklaces,...
by Dan Metz | Jul 26, 2021 | Culture, Featured, Hotels, News, NYC, Travel
Not everything shut down during the COVID-19 pandemic. While other businesses went into hibernation, Westgate began a metamorphosis. Over the course of the next year, they renovated almost all of their locations, set on a new and improved experience for the eventual...
by Marley Gifford | Jul 26, 2021 | Dining, Featured, NYC, Restaurants
Downtown Highlights Welcome to Downtown Highlights, the series in which we take the opportunity to “highlight” businesses in NYC, like delicious chocolate and or gelato from Venchi. After the tumultuous and crazy year we’ve had, brick and mortar locations have taken a...
by Marley Gifford | Jul 23, 2021 | Culture, Entertainment, Featured, Music, NYC, Theater
Welcoming Jenna Chrisphonte as Director of Civic Alliances As of July 6, The Ronald O. Perelman Performing Arts Center welcomed its new Director of Civic Alliances, Jenna Chrisphonte. She will work under the leadership of the theater’s Artistic Director Bill Rauch and...
by Marley Gifford | Jul 23, 2021 | Dining, Featured, Nutrition, Uncategorized
French Onion Soup, Gluten-Free and Downtown Style Fall is right around the corner, I say reluctantly, with marginally less of a tan than I had at this time last year. As much as I wish not to wish summer away, I am a sucker for fall. I am a cozy sweater fiend, a...
