The phrase "about downtown" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing topics, events, or locations related to the downtown area of a city.
Example: "The meeting will focus on the new developments about downtown and their impact on local businesses."
Alternatives: "regarding downtown" or "concerning downtown".
But developers have recently begun to buzz about Downtown Brooklyn.
I was out and about downtown in Jakarta yesterday and spoke to a number of people who all seemed to know about it, all seemed to be equally outraged.
"The only thing I used to know about downtown Detroit was Tigers games," says Davenport, 30, who moved from tiny Williamston, near Lansing, about six weeks ago to take a job as office manager in the Broderick Tower, an elegant 34-story tower on Woodward Avenue that is being converted into luxury apartments.
"Today, everyone is doomsday about downtown," Mr. Rosen said.
Yet hours before the game, as fans milled about downtown, the Canucks' primary concern was Luongo.
So we held the review of Guy's American Kitchen & Bar and I wrote a piece about downtown Manhattan instead.
The much talked-about downtown historical zone is being transformed for the next Olympiad in 2004.
That formula has certainly worked for Simonez Wolf, who started Madame Wong's in March and within weeks created one of the most talked-about downtown parties.
Brainard was a well-known man-about-downtown in New York in the 1960's and 70's.
The new retrospective of Walter Robinson's bright, brushy realist paintings is a blessed event for fans of the storied bohemian artist, art journalist, and man-about-downtown.
It's been almost a year since Marlborough Chelsea tapped actor, artist, curator and man-about-downtown Leo Fitzpatrick to bring his very particular curatorial sensibilities from the street (via his alternative space Home Alone co-run with Nate Lowman) to the upper echelons of the New York gallery world with his own Marlborough Chelsea space, The Viewing Room.
