That schedule is not expected to change under a new contract, though the city is studying how much more traffic the downtown heliport could handle, said Patricia Ornst, the director of aviation for the Economic Development Corporation.
FOR all the people who clog the sidewalks, it is at times tough to do much more than crawl through downtown Flushing, the epicenter of the Asian community in Queens.
Google co-founder Sergey Brin rides the subway, just like the rest of us, but when he does, he's wearing Google Glass and presumably seeing much more about the dreary downtown 3 train interior than his fellow passengers thanks to his magic augmented reality powers.
Downtown is much more alluring than uptown — but maybe that's because I was raised downtown.
In recent years, economic development efforts have attracted almost a billion dollars in private investment to New Rochelle's downtown, with much more on the way.
None of the neighborhoods that define the city's culture, like Georgetown, Adams Morgan (save for a very few oases), Dupont Circle, Capitol Hill, or Downtown, offer much more than really expensive drinks to the tunes of Hoobastank and Velvet Shitvolver, a veritable Applebee's culture that gives us the shudders.
I found the old Downtown area, so much more engaging than the the Strip.
In the past decade, she's transplanted herself into the much more austere realm of New York's downtown dance scene.
Just imagine how much more vibrant that part of the downtown would be, with that building used to its capacity.
Now, downtown holds not much more than three pawn shops, an espresso bar that plays Christian soft rock and the headquarters for the Carpet and Rug Institute, a trade group.
