Friday, September 28, 2007
Downtown New York Stages Cultural Festival Born After 9/11
VOA News: "Summer in New York is a season of outdoor festivals, and although summer is mostly over, one arts festival continues to the end of September. The River to River Festival was founded in 2001 to lift the downtown economy following the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The name refers to the Hudson and East Rivers that meet at the lower tip of Manhattan, an area that encompasses Wall Street, Battery Park, City Hall, the former site of the World Trade Center, and the South Street Seaport."
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I've been to this festival and it really is a great place to be around that time. I'm a little tired of hearing about different organizations that were founded to help "restore the economy" or whatever after September 11th but I can say first hand that this festival really did bring the area back and it was the way Valerie Lewis mentioned; nobody even knew they could get downtown. It was an amazing revival though it has died down a lot in the past year or two.
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