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BID Envisions New Downtown Hub

NEW YORK CITY-With a design study and public exhibit, the Downtown Alliance hopes to spur interest in restoring Greenwich Street as an uninterrupted span.

By Cody Lyon | Updated on September 29, 2009

NEW YORK CITY-The Alliance for Downtown New York released a new design study Tuesday that incorporates both practical and visionary ideas for the 23 blocks south of the World Trade Center now called “Greenwich South.” An outdoor exhibit of the study is now on display at Zucotti Park, near the WTC site, through Oct. 24.

Visioning Study Exhibit

The study is built around the premise of an uninterrupted Greenwich Street, long ago dead-ended at points north and south by the super-block design of the original World Trade Center.However, a source familiar with planning at the WTC site tells GlobeSt.com that Greenwich Street will only be a limited access road, because of security concerns.

That doesn’t deter the mission of Liz Berger, president of the Downtown Alliance, said to be the largest BID in North America. She tells GlobeSt.com the key to bringing several of Lower Manhattan’s most bustling, vital and active sub-districts together is “the restoration of Greenwich Street, northward from Battery Park.” She adds that she hopes “this study is yet another ambitious effort to change the character of Lower Manhattan.”

Greenwich Street extends from the intersection of Ninth Avenue and Gansevoort Street in the Meatpacking district, all the way down to Battery Park at Manhattan’s lower tip. Along the way, it passes through some of the city’s most colorful neighborhoods, the centers of fashion, art and retail like the West Village, Tribeca and Soho.

Berger tells GlobeSt.com that the new study is not a master plan, but instead, a collection of “big ideas,” what she calls the Downtown Alliance’s “point of view about what ought to drive development.” She notes the results of the study’s work detail how “some of today’s most imaginative and creative thinkers chose to illustrate those ideas.”

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