Downtown Roundup

Monday, March 3, 2014

Fitch: Detroit Plan of Adjustment Does Not Impair DDA Bondholders

The Detroit Emergency Manager's Plan of Adjustment reinforces Fitch's perspective that Downtown Development Authority bondholders are adequately insulated from Detroit's bankruptcy filing.

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... The newly elected city-money-minder and former Manhattan borough president stopped by The Brookyln Paper's Downtown office last week to hold forth about his plans and propositions and chief among them was turning the borough into a hub for high-tech ...

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POLITICS: Stringer tell! The Brooklyn Paper sits down with the new comptroller

Sunday, March 2, 2014

"City as Canvas: Graffiti Art from the Martin Wong Collection" opens in New York City

... cars and station walls, to colorful paintings embraced as valuable works of art by collectors and patrons from the Downtown scene of the 1980s. Wong was drawn to the ubiquitous graffiti writing he saw all over New York City when he moved from San ...

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Florida Tourism Loving Miserable Weather Elsewhere in U.S.

One region's cold spell is another tourism region's warm sweet spot. South Florida is making lots of money out of this winter's great migration to its beaches.

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Smithsonian American History Museum: A Photo Diary

... Statue of George Washington. Part of the odd American predilection for depicting its national heroes as Greeks. Downtown Washington DC looks like a Greek and Roman temple complex. A fire engine from the first municipal fire department in the US, ...

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Saturday, March 1, 2014

Winter-weary Americans flock to South Florida; tourism industry rejoices over record numbers

On a bitterly cold day earlier this year, bundled up New Yorkers were greeted by a group of men and women in beach attire - complete with flip flops, sunglasses and bathing suits - in an effort to show them what South Florida's winter looks like.

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