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Culture Events

Downtown TripPicks: July 17-July 24

Trip.com is an innovative planning tool that tailors recommendations for places to stay, eat and play to your specific tastes. It also allows you to share your great experiences with people who have the same interests as you; people in your “tribes.” Trip.com’s TripPicks This Week feature empowers you to discover and take advantage of great events, openings and exhibits throughout the city each week.

Here are some exciting events and sites to check out this week in Downtown New York, courtesy of Trip.com. Visit their website or download the app for more upcoming events.

Spiked Ice Cream

Drinks or ice cream? That’s no longer a difficult either/or choice now that Tipsy Scoop’s first brick-and-mortar Barlour is serving boozy ice cream flavors like red velvet martini, mango margarita sorbet and tequila Mexican “hot” chocolate. Bring your ID and a designated driver.

Where: Tipsy Scoop (Kips Bay), 217 E 26th Street
When: Tuesday-Sunday from 12-10pm

Seedy New York Films

What was New York like in the late 70s? The 44 films being screened at the Film Forum this month show audiences a seedier side of the Big Apple. Don’t miss cult classics like the “Warriors,” “Serpico,” “The Taking Of Pelham One Two Three,” “Midnight Cowboy” and “Marathon Man.” Tickets start at $8

Where: Film Forum (South Village), 208 W Houston Street
When: Through Thursday, July 27th

Shakespeare in the Parking Lot

Nothing beats Shakespeare in the Park, but we think Shakespeare in the Parking Lot from The Drilling Company comes pretty close. We are partial to this neighborhood performance for its creative energy and staging of “All’s Well That Ends Well.” FREE

Where: The Parking Lot behind The Clemente (Lower East Side), 107 Suffolk Street
When: Thursday, Jul. 20-Saturday, Jul. 22 at 7pm

Water Front Taco Festival

Come get those tacos, baby! The Taco Fest will feature 30 local vendors who’ll be serving a variety of unlimited $3 tacos. The fun continues with tequila samplings, a margarita bar, cooking demos, eating contests, live music and wrestling! FREE

Where: Pier 25 (Tribeca), West Street & N Moore Street
When: Saturday, July 22 from 12-6pm

Mark Flood’s “Google Murder Suicide”

Mark Flood’s solo show “Google Murder Suicide” takes a hard look at our complicated relationship with the digital world. The works on display touch on topics of obsession, intrusion and isolation. FREE

Where: Maccarone Gallery (West Village), 630 Greenwich Street
When: Monday-Friday from 10am-6pm (through Friday, Jul. 28)

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Business Living NYC Real Estate

Downtown’s New Park Avenue

Darren Sukenik

Years ago, luxury buyers coming to New York would solely focus on residential properties in Upper Manhattan, especially the East Side’s Park Avenue. 

With the emergence of luxury new developments downtown, this trend is changing drastically. Uptown’s most desired amenity, Central Park, is no longer enough to compare to the architecturally impressive new developments coming to downtown with their high-end, luxury amenities.   

For example, Tribeca’s 111 Murray Street offers free-flowing, lavish social spaces offering residents places to relax and entertain within, including a patisserie, lounge and veranda, private dining room with fully-equipped demonstration kitchen and landscaped private resident’s garden. Residents will also enjoy large amenity spaces that include a 75-foot lap pool, children’s splash pool with interactive water jets, spa with private treatment rooms, saunas, a fitness center with movement studio, a Drybar hair salon, teen arcade, children’s playroom and a media room. Additionally, a carefully-crafted hammam made from slabs of stone will offer a truly authentic warming and relaxation experience steeped in the Turkish tradition.

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New York is experiencing a revolution in the way people live and downtown Manhattan offers buyers modern, intuitive design that improves quality of life. Hudson River Park provides miles and miles of bike, jogging and rollerblading lanes — all unencumbered by dangerous vehicle traffic. Hudson River Park also affords miles of curated riverfront park and recreation, where Pier 25 in Tribeca is a very exciting place to be a kid!

Wide cobble stone streets, vibrant art galleries, sexy restaurants and trendy boutiques create a riveting lifestyle downtown. While Park Avenue has grown stark and enclosed by overarching skyscrapers, West Street offers sweeping views of the city skyline and open-air vistas of the Hudson River.

Older buildings uptown require maintenance and lack convenience. Newly-minted, Ivy Grad start-up gurus are living and working downtown in addition to hip millennial families. The revitalization of Brookfield Place has even attracted the fashion-oriented crowd, with companies like Condé Nast and high-end designers like Hermes Paris moving in next to financial heavy-hitters like Morgan Stanley.

The scene is young and thriving, yet offers older, uptown dwellers a new lease on life where they can be close to their children. It has become a true lifestyle destination and chic, upscale neighborhood. In fact, contracts for downtown properties over $4 million have almost tripled this year, more than any other neighborhood in the city. Pricing is up as well, and steadily-climbing. In 2008, 200 Chambers Street sold at $1,000 per square feet. For 2016, the cost for luxury buildings per square feet has jumped to $3,000, which we are currently seeing at both 30 Park Place and 111 Murray Street. Demand is high — there is simply no other way to live like this in Manhattan. For all of these reasons, everyone wants to live downtown.

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Lifestyle Living

The Top Five Reasons It’s Great To Be A Downtown Parent

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Downtown’s new Lifestyle and Family editor, Denise Courter, outlines the advantages of bringing up little ones in lower Manhattan.

By Denise Courter

Raising kids in New York is exciting and fun, but it also comes with unique challenges, square footage being the most obvious. As a FiDi parent with two toddlers, I am constantly on the hunt for new and exciting activities in FiDi and all of Lower Manhattan. The number one question I get from friends and family is “Why do we raise kids in NYC?” My response has always been “Why not?” I created the FiDi Families website to encourage parents to explore the great neighborhoods that encompass Lower Manhattan. My goal is to keep the families of these great neighborhoods up to date on fun events, new classes, great restaurants, new schools and day- care options, kid stores, etc. Downtown neighborhoods are fabulous, filled with facilities for the whole family, and are easily accessible by foot, stroller, scooter and the subway.

HERE ARE MY FIVE REASONS TO BE A DOWNTOWN PARENT :

1 Convenience!
Groceries, diapers, baby clothes, paper goods, prescriptions, wine, meals can all be delivered, 24/7. If parents are juggling kids, work, schedules and socializing, these conveniences are amazing. Pharmacy delivery can be found in Lower Manhattan, which is great when parents have sick kids and it’s impossible to set foot outside because you have a sick kid and they need TLC. Check out the Downtown Pharmacy or Kings Pharmacy. Some of our favorite online sites include Diapers.com, Soap.com and FreshDirect.com. And don’t forget to order your wine online. There are several retail stores that will deliver for free (just ask). But, if you are juggling kids, schedules and work, ordering online may be the best way to go. Check out one of our favorites, Vintry Wines, which also has a retail location at 230 Murray Street. Shhhhh… wine tastings, too.

2 Parks, Playgrounds and More!

NYC has more than 1,700 parks, playgrounds and recreation facilities across the five boroughs. This type of access means that Downtown kids can grow up with green grass, and parents don’t have to mow the lawn; it’s a win-win! Some of our Downtown favorites include the Imagination Playground, Thames Street Park, Nelson E. Rockefeller Park and Pier 25. Some of our Downtown favorite museums include the Children’s Museum of Art, National Museum of the American Indian and Poets House.

If you would like to know the five reasons it’s great to be a downtown parent, you can read them in DOWNTOWN’s Spring 2014 issue on newsstands now! 

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Events News

Kids of New York Harbor School Help Relaunch the Lettie G. Howard

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Pat Foye, the Executive Director of the Port Authority during his speech on-board the Lettie G. Howard.

Administrators, teachers, students and parents from the Urban Assembly New York Harbor School shared the infectious passion that drives each of them—their love for the sea, with Downtown residents at a special event at Pier 25 on Monday May 12th.

The Urban Assembly New York Harbor School, New York Harbor Foundation and South Street Seaport Museum took part in the event which put a spotlight on the work of the high school students to restore the historic Seaport vessel, the 121-year-old Lettie G. Howard and provide guests with vessel tours.

The Port Authority awarded $50,000 to the New York Harbor Foundation to help fund the restoration of the vessel as an educational exercise, giving the students the chance to get a hands-on experience they won’t ever forget.

The event marked the official launching of the “Two States, One Port,” a joint collaboration among the New York Harbor School, Port Authority and South Street Seaport Museum, with a specific goal of exposing and engaging students in the maritime operations of New York City.

“The future and resiliency of our port operations depend on the expertise of our next generation of maritime managers and leaders,’’ said Port Authority Executive Director Pat Foye. “That’s why we’ve chosen to support this worthwhile program for students so they can serve as future ambassadors for the East Coast’s busiest port.”

The Harbor School opened its doors in September, 2003 as New York City’s only maritime high school and seeks to graduate students equipped with the skills and experience to become tomorrow’s port industry managers. The school’s students cultivated skills in managing the Lettie, as they seek to restore the vessel as an integral curriculum component.

“We are working hard. We want to inspire people,” said Maya Perkins, a happy student of the New York Harbor School.

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The students of the New York Harbor School on board their favorite school project.

“The big take-home message is that we want a tangible and symbolic way to unite this port that is between two states,” said Murray Fisher, co-founder of the New York Harbor School and President of the New York Harbor Foundation.

But this wasn’t the only message Fisher wanted to pass on about the program. “This port cannot be just about commerce and it can’t be just about nature,” he said. “It’s a harbor. And a harbor includes the commercial human element and the natural estuary element. It needs to be a place where we have continuing flourishing commerce in the port but then also have flourishing wild life and that the ecosystem gets stronger at the same time. That’s the really hard work of managing this port. And you have to train young people for it.”

And with the training came a valuable history lesson, along with others about teamwork.

“The Lettie G. Howard is a very special historic vessel with a very important role to play in the lives of these young people,”  said South Street Seaport Museum Interim President Captain Jonathan Boulware. “There are lessons learned aboard a sail training vessel that are not easily learned anywhere else: unique teamwork and leadership lessons. It’s a good program for the students, a good one for the vessel, and exemplifies the very best in maritime education, a critical theme for the Seaport Museum.”

From now on Lettie G. Howard will be used for education purposes. When  additional funding is secured, the school plans on utilizing the vessel for events such as Chesapeake Bay and Gloucester Schooner Days at the end of August, where students will sail the vessel alongside other schools from up and down the East Coast.

Purchased by the South Street Seaport Museum in 1968, Lettie — a 125-foot-long Gloucester fishing schooner — was designated a national historic landmark in 1989 and served as the sail-training vessel of Harbor School, traveling throughout the Port of New York and New Jersey and along the East Coast from 2003 to 2010.

-Xavi Ocaña.

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The Letti G. Howard vessel is put back in service with help from the kids from The Urban Assembly New York Harbor School .