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Down in the Tube Station at Midnight "Down in the Tube Station at Midnight" was the second single taken from the album All Mod Cons by The Jam. Released on 21 October 1978 it charted at #15 and was backed by a cover of a Who song So Sad About Us and The Night, written by Bruce Foxton.
Down in the Valley Down in the Valley is a movie starring Edward Norton, Evan Rachel Wood, David Morse and Rory Culkin. The film made its debut at the Cannes Film Festival on May 13, 2005, and made its limited theatrical release in North America in May 2006.
Down in the Valley (opera) Down in the Valley is an opera by composer Kurt Weill and librettist Arnold Sungaard, initially composed and conceived for the radio1945. It is an American Folk Opera- using famous American tunes to carry the story (a few being Down in the Valley, The Lonesome Dove, Hop Up, My Ladies) and connected by original choral music.
Down In A Mirror: A Second Tribute To Jandek Down In A Mirror: A Second Tribute To Jandek is a tribute album compiled by Moscow, PA-based independent record label Summersteps Records, released as a follow-up to the label's first Jandek tribute, Naked In The Afternoon. As with Naked In The Afternoon, Down In A Mirror features cover versions of songs by the reclusive avant-folk/blues singer/songwriter Jandek.
Down on Barney's Farm Down on Barney's Farm is the 10th episode in season 1 in the Barney and Friends television show which airs on PBS. The episode features Bob West as the voice of Barney, West was featured on the show from 1992 - 2001.
Down payment The term "down payment" is used in the context of large, expensive purchases, such as those of cars and houses, whereby a loan is required to make the full payment. The down payment is the initial upfront portion of the payment, usually given in cash.
Down Periscope Down Periscope is a 1996 comedy movie starring Kelsey Grammer as the captain of a rust-bucket submarine (called the USS Stingray) who is fighting for his career. Rob Schneider provides comic support as the uptight executive officer, and Lauren Holly as the Navy's first female submarine crewmember.
Down Rodeo "Down Rodeo" was a single by Rage Against the Machine, which appears on their Evil Empire album. The lyrics appear to deal with the social inequality between the rich and poor of America, and the possibility of an armed reaction by someone from a poorer background.
Down Senior Football Championship The Down Senior Football Club Championship is an annual Gaelic Athletic Association club competition between the top Down Clubs. The winners of the Down Championship qualify to represent their county in the Ulster Club Championship and in turn, go on to the All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship.
Down Senior Hurling Championship The Down Senior Hurling Club Championship is an annual Gaelic Athletic Association club competition between the top Down Clubs. The winners of the Down Championship winners qualify to represent their county in the Ulster Club Championship and in turn, go on to the All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship.
Down Street tube station Down Street, also known as Down Street (Mayfair), was a station of the London Underground's Piccadilly Line which closed in 1932. During World War II it was used as an air-raid shelter, notably by Winston Churchill and his War Cabinet.
Down the Tiny Steps Down the Tiny Steps are a Glasgow-based folk rock band. The band consists of Jonnie Common (Vocals / Guitar / Synth / Writer), Ben Robb (Drums), Gav Crawford (Percussion / Vocals), Craig Rankine (Synth / Vocals), Alasdair MacDougal (Bass), Graham Norris (Lead Guitar / Vocals).
Down the World Down the World - Mervil's Ambition is a Final Fantasy IV-like RPG game where the player takes the role as Mervil as he tries to become the most successful man in his world. During the course of the game, he fights rough monsters, goes on perilous quests, and becomes tougher as he acquires stronger equipment and fights evil forces.
Down to a Sunless Sea David Graham's Down to a Sunless Sea is a post-apocalyptic fiction novel about a planeload of people during the ultimate worldwide disaster. It explores the issues involved in a world without energy, gone mad, that crosses the line into nuclear holocaust.
Down to Earth (TV series) Down to Earth was an American fantasy situation comedy series that ran on Superstation TBS from 1983 to 1987. It was produced by Procter & Gamble Productions and was the superstation's first original series.
Down to Earth (UK TV series) Down to Earth is a TV series on BBC One. The original series was first broadcast in 2000, starring Pauline Quirke as Faith Addis, and Warren Clarke as her husband Brian, as a couple who start a new life on a Devon farm.
Down to the Bone (band) Down to the Bone is an acid jazz group led by DJ Stuart Wade, who formed the band with Chris Morgans (who has now left) in 1996. The group is very popular in the UK, where they are "hailed as the kings of UK jazz groove.
Down to the Countryside Movement The Down to the Countryside Movement (literally "Up to the mountains and down to the villages") was a political movement in the People's Republic of China in the late 1960s and early 1970s. As a result of the anti-bourgeois thinking prevalent during the Cultural Revolution, Mao Zedong declared that privileged urban youths should be sent to mountainous areas or farming villages, in order that they could learn from the workers and farmers there.
Down to the Roots Organic Homesteading Magazine Down to the Roots Organic Homesteading Magazine is a Canadian magazine founded in 2005 and published out of British Columbia, Canada four times a year. It is currently circulated in 40 US States, 5 Provinces in Canada and 8 countries worldwide.
Down The Line Down The Line is a British radio comedy broadcast on BBC Radio 4, which satirises populist radio phone-in shows. The show is a spoof following the tradition of the like of BBC Radio 4's Knowing Me, Knowing You...
Down There on a Visit Through the marginal success of his first novel, All the Conspirators, Christopher Isherwood becomes something of a literary rockstar. Immersing himself in sexual experimentation, alcohol, and raucous company across Europe and North America, Isherwood's hedonism pauses briefly for a dalliance with eastern mysticism.
Down These Mean Streets Down These Mean Streets is the autobiography of Piri Thomas, a Latino of Puerto Rican and Cuban descent who grew up in El Barrio (aka Spanish Harlem), a section of Harlem that has a large Puerto Rican population. In the book, we watch Piri as he goes through the first few decades of his life, lives in poverty, joins and fights with street gangs, faces racism (in both New York and the South), suffers through heroin addiction, gets involved in crime, and ends up in prison.
Down To Nothing Down To Nothing (or DTN) are a straight edge, hardcore punk band based out of Richmond, Virginia. Since their inception in 2000, DTN have toured all over the United States and Europe gaining more fans day by day.
Down Your Way Down Your Way was a BBC radio series which ran from 29th December 1946 to 1992, originally on the Home Service and then on BBC Radio 4, usually broadcast on Sundays. It visited towns around the United Kingdom, spoke to residents and played their choice of music.
Down-With-Imperialism Union The Down-With-Imperialism Union, or DIU, was founded on October 17 1926 by Kim Il-sung, in Huadian City, Jilin Province, China, in order to fight against Japanese imperialism and promote Marxism-Leninism. It is considered by North Korea to be the roots and foundation of its ruling party, the Workers' Party of Korea.
Downblouse A downblouse is a form of voyeurism enjoyed by those who are attracted to women, in which they seek a view of a woman's breasts down her shirt or blouse, particularly when she is bending over without regard for the fact that her shirt is loose around her neck. To the voyeur, downblousing is often considered most successful when the breasts being viewed turn out to be bare; i.
Downburst A downburst is a column of sinking air that is capable of producing damaging straight-line winds of over 150 mph (240 km/h), often producing damage similar to, but distinguishable from tornadoes. This is because the physical properties of a downburst are completely opposite that of a tornado.
Downcounty Consortium The Downcounty Consortium (DCC) is a group of five high schools that rising middle-schoolers in a select part of Montgomery County, Maryland choose from to attend for high school education. These high schools are Albert Einstein High School, John F.
Downcutting Downcutting, also called erosional downcutting or downward erosion is a geological process that deepens the channel of a stream or valley by removing material from the stream's bed or the valley's floor. How fast downcutting occurs depends on the stream's base level, which is the lowest point to which the stream can erode.
Downdrift In phonetics, downdrift is the cumulative lowering of pitch over time due to interactions among tones in a tonal language. It is distinct from the general lowering of the pitch during prosodic contours of a tonal or non-tonal language.
Downeaster The Downeaster is a 116-mile (187 km) passenger train route operated by Amtrak, connecting North Station in Boston, Massachusetts to Portland, Maine. In fiscal year 2006, it was Amtrak's fastest growing service, with overall ridership up 22.
Downed opponent A downed opponent (also called a grounded opponent) refers to a combatant that is on the ground, as compared to a combatant that is in a standing position. This commonly implies that the downed combatant is lying on the ground, but can technically refer to any position in which anything except the soles of the combatants feet are touching the ground.
Downend air crash The Downend air crash occurred on November 6, 1957 when a prototype Type 301 Bristol Britannia aircraft, G-ANCA, crashed in woods near Overndale Road in Downend Village on its landing approach at Filton airport during a test flight.
Downend Comprehensive School Downend School has a Technology College Status and was former comprehensive school in Downend a suburban village in South Gloucestershire. The school is Mixed gender Non Denominational religion and has recently a undergone a transfer from a split site school to a single site school on Westerleigh Road, Downend.
Downers Grove North Downers Grove North High School, or DGNHS, and locally referred to as "North," is a public four year high school located near the corner of Main Street and Ogden Avenue in Downers Grove, Illinois, a western suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. It is part of Community High School District 99, which also includes Downers Grove South High School.
Downers Grove South Downers Grove South High School, or DGS, and locally referred to as "South," is a public four-year high school located at the corner of Dunham Road and 63rd Street in Downers Grove, Illinois, a western suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. It is part of Community High School District 99, which also includes Downers Grove North High School.
Downes v. Bidwell Downes v. Bidwell, , was a case in which the United States Supreme Court decided whether United States territories were subject to the provisions and protections of the United States Constitution This question is sometimes stated as "does the Constitution follow the flag?
Downfall (band) Downfall was a ska and punk band from the Bay Area formed by Tim Armstrong, Matt Freeman, Dave Mello, Pat Mello, and Jason Hammon following the break-up of Operation Ivy in 1989 and pre-dating Armstrong's and Freeman's wider recognition in Rancid. They performed three shows at Gilman over a period of three months: one of these shows was recorded.
Downfield Sixth Form Downfield Sixth Form is a sixth-form college, and mainly consists of Years 12 and 13 from Marling School, and SHS students. Downfield is also part of the Stroud Post 16 Consortium which includes Archway School and Stroud College.
Downham Downham is a district spanning the boundary between the London Borough of Lewisham and the London Borough of Bromley. The dominant feature of the area is the Downham Estate built by the London County Council during the late 1920s.
Downham Market Downham Market, also known simply as Downham, is a town and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It lies on the River Great Ouse, some 20 km south of the town of King's Lynn, 60 km west of the city of Norwich and the same distance north of the city of Cambridge.
Downhaul The downhaul is a line which is part of the rigging on a sailboat; it applies downward force on a spar or sail. The most common downhaul on a modern sailboat is attached to the spinnaker pole, although the term is also commonly applied to the cunningham on the mainsail.
Downhere downhere is a Juno, Dove, and Covenant Award winning Christian Rock (melodic alt-rock) band from Canada. They have released three albums to date, with the third being Wide-Eyed And Mystified, which was released on May 23, 2006.
Downhill bike A downhill bike (also known as a downhill mountain bike) is a full suspension bicycle designed for mountain biking, particularily for very steep, rocky trails. Unlike a typical mountain bike, durability and stability are the most important design features, at the cost of heavier weights than lighter, more versatile, cross-country bikes.
Downhill Battle Downhill Battle is a non-profit organization based in Worcester, Massachusetts. It launched in August 2003 and argues that the four major recording labels have an oligopoly that is bad for both musicians and music culture.
Downhill creep Downhill creep, or commonly just creep, is the slow progression of rock and soil down a low grade slope; it can also refer to slow deformation of such materials as a result of prolonged pressure and stress. The rate of soil creep down a slope depends on the steepness of the slope itself - the steeper the slope, the faster the creep.
Downhill cycling Downhill cycling (DH) is a gravity-assisted time trial mountain biking event. Riders race against the clock, starting at intervals that can vary from 30 seconds to three minutes-depending on the stage of the competition.
Downhill folding Downhill folding, a key prediction of the energy landscape theory, is a process in which there is no free energy barrier between the unfolded state and the folded state. It is predicted to occur under conditions of extreme native bias, i.
Downing Site The Downing Site is a major site of the University of Cambridge, located in the centre of the city, on Downing Street & Tennis Court Road, adjacent to Downing College. The Downing Site is the larger and newer of two city-centre science sites of the university (the other is the New Museums Site).
Downing Stadium Downing Stadium was a 22,000 seat football stadium in the city of New York. Built in 1934 on Randall's Island in the East River as a WPA project, it served as the home stadium of the New York Stars of the WFL in 1974, and the New York Cosmos of the NASL in 1975.
Downing Street Downing Street is the famous street in central London which contains the buildings that have been, for over two hundred years, the official residences of two of the most senior British cabinet ministers, the First Lord of the Treasury, an office held by the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and the Second Lord of the Treasury, an office held by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The most famous address in Downing Street is 10 Downing Street, the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury—and thus, in modern times, the residence of the Prime Minister, since the two roles have been filled by the same person.
Downing Street Declaration The Downing Street Declaration was a joint declaration issued on December 15, 1993 by the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, John Major and Albert Reynolds, the Taoiseach (prime minister) of the Republic of Ireland. It affirmed the right of the people of Northern Ireland to self-determination, and that the province would be transferred to the Republic of Ireland from the United Kingdom if and only if a majority of its population was in favour of such a move.
Downing Street memo The "Downing Street memo" (occasionally DSM, or the "Downing Street Minutes"), sometimes described by critics of the Iraq War as the "smoking gun memo", contains an overview of a secret 23 July 2002 meeting among United Kingdom Labour government, defence and intelligence figures, discussing the build-up to the war—including direct reference to classified United States policy of the time. It clearly states that, "Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD.
Downingia Downingia is a genus of 13 annual plants native to western North America and Chile. Commonly known as "calicoflowers", they are notable for forming mass displays of small but colorful blooms around vernal pools.
Downingtown High School Downingtown High School is a secondary school located in Downingtown, Pennsylvania. Population growth in the burgeoning Downingtown Area School district forced the original Downingtown High School to split into two campuses: Downingtown High School East Campus and Downingtown High School West Campus.
Downingtown, Pennsylvania Downingtown is a borough in Chester County, Pennsylvania, 33 miles (53 km) west of Philadelphia. Downingtown has been in existence since the early 1700's and boasts a number of historic buildings and structures.
Downlands Countryside Management Project The Downlands Countryside Management Project is a partnership between several London and Surrey local authorities set up to manage an area of countryside of 130 km² across the south of Outer London, with four main aims:
Downley Downley is a village in Buckinghamshire, England. It is the principal centre of population of the 4,768 (as at 2001) residents of Downley Parish Council and is located high in the Chiltern Hills], overlooking the [[town of High Wycombe.
Download (band) Download is an electronic music group formed by Dwayne Goettel and cEvin Key of Skinny Puppy during 1994. The initial lineup also included Off and Gone's Phil Western and Mark Spybey of Dead Voices on Air, but has since been particularly fluid, with Key and Western being the only constant members after Goettel's death.
Download manager A download manager is a computer program designed to download files from the Internet, unlike a web browser, which is mainly intended to browse webpages on the World Wide Web (with file downloading being of secondary importance).
Download This Song "Download This Song" is a track from The Graduate album by MC Lars and features Jaret Reddick of Bowling for Soup. The lyrics of the song are based on the book, The Future of Music: Manifesto for the Digital Music Revolution (ISBN 0-87639-059-9) by Dave Kusek and Gerd Leonhard.
Downloadable Conditional Access System Downloadable Conditional Access System or DCAS is a proposal advanced by CableLabs for secure software download of a specific Conditional Access client (computer program) which controls Digital Rights Management (DRM) into a OCAP-compliant host consumer media device. The National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA) proposes that DCAS be used as a substitute for physical CableCARDs, a standard also created by CableLabs for which products began appearing in August, 2004.
Downlode Downlode is a fictional city in British comic 2000 AD's story Sinister Dexter.Created by Dan Abnett and David Millgate It is sprawled across late 21st centurty Central Europe "like a hit and run victim".
Downpatrick (UK Parliament constituency) Downpatrick was a former United Kingdom Parliament constituency, in Ireland, returning one MP. It was an original constituency represented in Parliament when the Union of Great Britain and Ireland took effect on 1 January, 1801.
Downrange Downrange is the horizontal distance travelled by a spacecraft, or the spacecraft's horizontal distance from the launch site. More often, it is used as an adverb or adjective specifying the direction of that travel being measured in a horizontal direction.
Downrigger A downrigger is a device used in fishing by the trolling method which places a lure down th the desired depth. A downrigger consists of a fishing rod-like device suspending a cannonball (large weight) by a steel cable (generally stainless steel).
Downs Preparatory School Founded in 1894Official website, and originally set on the Clifton Downs, the Downs School is a popular preparatory school feeding public schools throughout the South and the Midlands. It is currently located in an Elizabethan country house near Wraxall in North Somerset.
Downs-Thomson paradox Downs-Thomson paradox, also referred to as the Pigou-Knight-Downs paradox, states that the equilibrium speed of car traffic on the road network is determined by the average door-to-door speed of equivalent journeys by (rail-based or otherwise segregated) public transport.
Downscaling Global climate models (GCMs) are run at coarse spatial resolution (typically of the order 50,000 km²) and are unable to resolve important sub-grid scale features such as clouds and topography. As a result GCMs can’t be used for local impact studies.
Downside, New South Wales Downside is a farming community in the central east part of the Riverina and situated about 15 kilometres north west from Wagga Wagga and 24 kilometres south east from Coolamon. It has a population within a 7 kilometre radius of approximately 1432 people.
Downsize DC Foundation Downsize DC (formerly known as the American Liberty Foundation) is a non-partisan organization which aims to limit the size of government in the United States through awareness and petitioning government. It was founded by two-time Libertarian presidential candidate Harry Browne, his former campaign staff members Perry Willis and Jim Babka, and former National Chair of the Libertarian Party Steve Dasbach.
Downstate New York Downstate New York is a term for the southeasternmost portion of New York State, United States, in contrast to Upstate New York. It should be noted that the term "Downstate New York" has significantly less currency than its counterpart term "Upstate New York", and the Downstate region is often not regarded as one cohesive unit but rather thought of as being divided into the units which make it up - New York City, Long Island, and the northern suburbs of New York City (consisting of Westchester County, Rockland County, etc.
Downstep (phonetics) In phonetics, downstep is a phonemic or phonetic downward shift of tone between the syllables or words of a tonal language. It is best known in the languages of West Africa, but the pitch accent of Japanese (a non-tonal language) is quite similar to downstep in Africa.
Downstream (bioprocess) The downstream part of a bioprocess refers to the part where the cell mass from the upstream are processed to meet purity and quality requirements. Downstream processing is usually divided into three main sections, a capture section, a purification section and a polishing section.
Downstream (computer science) In information technology, downstream refers to the transfer speed (usually that of an internet connection) by which data can be sent from the server to the client. The process by which downstream is utilized is known as downloading.
Downstream (oil industry) The downstream oil sector is a term commonly used to refer to the refining of crude oil, and the selling and distribution of products derived from crude. Such products include gas, petrol, diesel and other kinds of fuel.
Downstream processing Downstream processing refers to the recovery and purification of biosynthetic products, particularly pharmaceuticals, from natural sources such as animal or plant tissue or fermentation broth, including the recycling of salvageable components and the proper treatment and disposal of waste. It is an essential step in the manufacture of pharmaceuticals such as antibiotics, hormones (e.
Downstream QoS Downstream QoS (see Qos) is a technology innovation that enhances VoIP calls by improving the clarity of incoming voice. When data floods the caller's downstream Internet-access line, Downstream QoS can throttle incoming data to ensure time-sensitive voice traffic gets through promptly to the listener.
Downsview Downsview is an area in the north end of Toronto, Ontario, Canada and also the name of a Toronto Transit Commission subway station in the area (see Downsview (TTC)). Downsview was originally a farm located in the 1870's near the present-day intersection of Keele Street and Wilson Avenue.
Downsville, Wisconsin Downsville is an unincorporated community in the Town of Dunn, in Dunn County, Wisconsin; the town government of Dunn is located in the area. Founded at a crossing of the Red Cedar River in 1855, the community is home to about 200 people.
Downtempo Downtempo (or Downbeat) is a laid-back electronic music style. Often the name chill out music is used to refer to songs demonstrative of the genre, but those names also refer to other styles of music, and downtempo encompasses a wider variety of styles than those terms alone would indicate.
Downtime Downtime refers to a period of time or a percentage of a timespan that a machine or system (usually a computer server) is offline or not functioning, usually as a result of either system failure (such as a crash) or routine maintenance. The opposite is uptime.
Downtime (Doctor Who) Downtime is a motion picture spin-off of the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was released direct-to-video and produced by the independent production company Reeltime Pictures.
Downtown In American and Canadian cities, the term downtown refers to the heart of a city, which is usually the city's central business district. This is by analogy with its coinage in New York City, where downtown was first used to refer to the original town on southern tip of the island of Manhattan.
Downtown (Athens) Downtown Athens in Athens, Georgia is generally considered to be the area bounded on the north by Prince Avenue, Dougherty Street and North Avenue; on the South by Broad Street and the University of Georgia campus; on the West by Milledge Avenue; and on the East by Foundry Street.
Downtown (owarai) Downtown (ă€ă‚¦ăłă‚żă‚¦ăł) is a Japanese comedy duo (kombi) consisting of Hitoshi Matsumoto (松本人志) and Masatoshi Hamada (浜田雅功). Downtown is probably the most influential kombi to come from Yoshimoto KĹŤgyĹŤ, and is arguably the most popular kombi in Japan today.
Downtown (song) "Downtown" is a pop song composed by Tony Hatch following a first-time visit to New York City. It was his original intention to present it to The Drifters, but when British singer Petula Clark heard the incomplete tune, she proposed that if he could write lyrics to match the quality of the melody, she would be interested in recording it.
Downtown (Vancouver) Downtown Vancouver is the term used to describe the southeastern portion of the peninsula in the north-central part of Vancouver proper. It is the business, commercial, cultural, and entertainment centre of the city and also of the Greater Vancouver Regional District.
Downtown Albuquerque Downtown Albuquerque is the central business district of Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is where a large number of the city's highrise buildings are located, as well as being the center of government and business for the region.
Downtown Art Space Downtown Art Space was an Artist Run Initiative (ARI) started in 2002 in an abandoned 1980's dodgem car rink in Adelaide, South Australia by artists Andrew Best, Bridget Currie, Louise Flaherty, Chris Flanagan and Viv Miller. It conducted many exhibitions in this first site, focusing mainly on the exhibition of video, performance, and other then neglected media.
Downtown Berkeley (BART station) Downtown Berkeley BART is a Bay Area Rapid Transit station located on Shattuck Avenue, between Allston Way and Addison Street in Downtown Berkeley, California. Signs in the station itself read simply "Berkeley," but BART schedules and maps label the station "Downtown Berkeley.
Downtown Berkeley, California Downtown Berkeley is the central district of the city of Berkeley, California, centered around the intersection of Shattuck Avenue and Center Street, and extending north to Hearst Avenue, south to Dwight Way, west to Martin Luther King Jr. Way, and east to Oxford Street.
Downtown Bernalillo (Rail Runner station) Downtown Bernalillo is a station-to-be on the New Mexico Rail Runner Express commuter rail line. A delay in track acquisition has pushed back the opening date for this station to sometime in Early 2007(possibly January).
Downtown Brooklyn Downtown Brooklyn is the third largest central business district in New York City (following Midtown Manhattan and Lower Manhattan), and is located in the northwestern section of the borough of Brooklyn. The numerous office buildings including the Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower and 4 MetroTech Center in the district give the area its own skyline distinct from Manhattan's.
Downtown Burbank (Metrolink station) The Burbank Metrolink Station, sometimes referred to as the Burbank Transportation Center, is a Metrolink rail station near downtown Burbank, California. It is served by Metrolink's Antelope Valley Line to Lancaster and Ventura County Line to Montalvo, Ventura and both terminating at Los Angeles Union Station.
Downtown Campbell (VTA) Downtown Campbell (VTA) is a Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority light rail station, located in downtown Campbell. Downtown Campbell station contains one island platform, and marks the beginning of a double-track section which continues to the end of line, Winchester station in western Campbell.
Downtown Cleveland Downtown Cleveland is the central business district of the City of Cleveland and Northeast Ohio. Reinvestment in the area in the mid-1990s spurred a rebirth that continues to this day, with over $2 billion in capital projects slated to involve the downtown area over the next few years.
Downtown Core The Downtown Core is an urban planning area in the south of the city-state of Singapore. The Downtown Core surrounds the mouth of the Singapore River and southeastern portion of its watershed, and is part of the Central Area, Singapore's central business district.
Downtown Crossing Downtown Crossing is a shopping district in Boston, Massachusetts, located due south of the Boston Common and west of the Financial District. It features large department stores -- at one time including the flagship stores of both the Filene's and Jordan Marsh chains (a large Macy's department store replaced Jordan Marsh's Downtown Crossing location in 1996 following the merger between the chains; the Filene's store closed in 2006, when the chain was acquired by Macy's and the Filene's name was phased out) -- as well as restaurants, music stores, souvenirs, general retail establishments, and many street vendors.
Downtown Dallas Downtown Dallas is the main central business district of Dallas, Texas (USA), located in the geographic center of the city. The area officially termed 'downtown' is bounded by the downtown freeway loop: made up on the east by I-345 (although known and signed as the northern terminus of I-45 and the southern terminus of US 75 (Central Expressway)), on the west by I-35E, on the south by I-30, and on the north by Spur-366 (Woodall Rodgers Freeway).
Down in the Valley Down in the Valley is a movie starring Edward Norton, Evan Rachel Wood, David Morse and Rory Culkin. The film made its debut at the Cannes Film Festival on May 13, 2005, and made its limited theatrical release in North America in May 2006.
Down in the Valley (opera) Down in the Valley is an opera by composer Kurt Weill and librettist Arnold Sungaard, initially composed and conceived for the radio1945. It is an American Folk Opera- using famous American tunes to carry the story (a few being Down in the Valley, The Lonesome Dove, Hop Up, My Ladies) and connected by original choral music.
Down In A Mirror: A Second Tribute To Jandek Down In A Mirror: A Second Tribute To Jandek is a tribute album compiled by Moscow, PA-based independent record label Summersteps Records, released as a follow-up to the label's first Jandek tribute, Naked In The Afternoon. As with Naked In The Afternoon, Down In A Mirror features cover versions of songs by the reclusive avant-folk/blues singer/songwriter Jandek.
Down on Barney's Farm Down on Barney's Farm is the 10th episode in season 1 in the Barney and Friends television show which airs on PBS. The episode features Bob West as the voice of Barney, West was featured on the show from 1992 - 2001.
Down payment The term "down payment" is used in the context of large, expensive purchases, such as those of cars and houses, whereby a loan is required to make the full payment. The down payment is the initial upfront portion of the payment, usually given in cash.
Down Periscope Down Periscope is a 1996 comedy movie starring Kelsey Grammer as the captain of a rust-bucket submarine (called the USS Stingray) who is fighting for his career. Rob Schneider provides comic support as the uptight executive officer, and Lauren Holly as the Navy's first female submarine crewmember.
Down Rodeo "Down Rodeo" was a single by Rage Against the Machine, which appears on their Evil Empire album. The lyrics appear to deal with the social inequality between the rich and poor of America, and the possibility of an armed reaction by someone from a poorer background.
Down Senior Football Championship The Down Senior Football Club Championship is an annual Gaelic Athletic Association club competition between the top Down Clubs. The winners of the Down Championship qualify to represent their county in the Ulster Club Championship and in turn, go on to the All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship.
Down Senior Hurling Championship The Down Senior Hurling Club Championship is an annual Gaelic Athletic Association club competition between the top Down Clubs. The winners of the Down Championship winners qualify to represent their county in the Ulster Club Championship and in turn, go on to the All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship.
Down Street tube station Down Street, also known as Down Street (Mayfair), was a station of the London Underground's Piccadilly Line which closed in 1932. During World War II it was used as an air-raid shelter, notably by Winston Churchill and his War Cabinet.
Down the Tiny Steps Down the Tiny Steps are a Glasgow-based folk rock band. The band consists of Jonnie Common (Vocals / Guitar / Synth / Writer), Ben Robb (Drums), Gav Crawford (Percussion / Vocals), Craig Rankine (Synth / Vocals), Alasdair MacDougal (Bass), Graham Norris (Lead Guitar / Vocals).
Down the World Down the World - Mervil's Ambition is a Final Fantasy IV-like RPG game where the player takes the role as Mervil as he tries to become the most successful man in his world. During the course of the game, he fights rough monsters, goes on perilous quests, and becomes tougher as he acquires stronger equipment and fights evil forces.
Down to a Sunless Sea David Graham's Down to a Sunless Sea is a post-apocalyptic fiction novel about a planeload of people during the ultimate worldwide disaster. It explores the issues involved in a world without energy, gone mad, that crosses the line into nuclear holocaust.
Down to Earth (TV series) Down to Earth was an American fantasy situation comedy series that ran on Superstation TBS from 1983 to 1987. It was produced by Procter & Gamble Productions and was the superstation's first original series.
Down to Earth (UK TV series) Down to Earth is a TV series on BBC One. The original series was first broadcast in 2000, starring Pauline Quirke as Faith Addis, and Warren Clarke as her husband Brian, as a couple who start a new life on a Devon farm.
Down to the Bone (band) Down to the Bone is an acid jazz group led by DJ Stuart Wade, who formed the band with Chris Morgans (who has now left) in 1996. The group is very popular in the UK, where they are "hailed as the kings of UK jazz groove.
Down to the Countryside Movement The Down to the Countryside Movement (literally "Up to the mountains and down to the villages") was a political movement in the People's Republic of China in the late 1960s and early 1970s. As a result of the anti-bourgeois thinking prevalent during the Cultural Revolution, Mao Zedong declared that privileged urban youths should be sent to mountainous areas or farming villages, in order that they could learn from the workers and farmers there.
Down to the Roots Organic Homesteading Magazine Down to the Roots Organic Homesteading Magazine is a Canadian magazine founded in 2005 and published out of British Columbia, Canada four times a year. It is currently circulated in 40 US States, 5 Provinces in Canada and 8 countries worldwide.
Down The Line Down The Line is a British radio comedy broadcast on BBC Radio 4, which satirises populist radio phone-in shows. The show is a spoof following the tradition of the like of BBC Radio 4's Knowing Me, Knowing You...
Down There on a Visit Through the marginal success of his first novel, All the Conspirators, Christopher Isherwood becomes something of a literary rockstar. Immersing himself in sexual experimentation, alcohol, and raucous company across Europe and North America, Isherwood's hedonism pauses briefly for a dalliance with eastern mysticism.
Down These Mean Streets Down These Mean Streets is the autobiography of Piri Thomas, a Latino of Puerto Rican and Cuban descent who grew up in El Barrio (aka Spanish Harlem), a section of Harlem that has a large Puerto Rican population. In the book, we watch Piri as he goes through the first few decades of his life, lives in poverty, joins and fights with street gangs, faces racism (in both New York and the South), suffers through heroin addiction, gets involved in crime, and ends up in prison.
Down To Nothing Down To Nothing (or DTN) are a straight edge, hardcore punk band based out of Richmond, Virginia. Since their inception in 2000, DTN have toured all over the United States and Europe gaining more fans day by day.
Down Your Way Down Your Way was a BBC radio series which ran from 29th December 1946 to 1992, originally on the Home Service and then on BBC Radio 4, usually broadcast on Sundays. It visited towns around the United Kingdom, spoke to residents and played their choice of music.
Down-With-Imperialism Union The Down-With-Imperialism Union, or DIU, was founded on October 17 1926 by Kim Il-sung, in Huadian City, Jilin Province, China, in order to fight against Japanese imperialism and promote Marxism-Leninism. It is considered by North Korea to be the roots and foundation of its ruling party, the Workers' Party of Korea.
Downblouse A downblouse is a form of voyeurism enjoyed by those who are attracted to women, in which they seek a view of a woman's breasts down her shirt or blouse, particularly when she is bending over without regard for the fact that her shirt is loose around her neck. To the voyeur, downblousing is often considered most successful when the breasts being viewed turn out to be bare; i.
Downburst A downburst is a column of sinking air that is capable of producing damaging straight-line winds of over 150 mph (240 km/h), often producing damage similar to, but distinguishable from tornadoes. This is because the physical properties of a downburst are completely opposite that of a tornado.
Downcounty Consortium The Downcounty Consortium (DCC) is a group of five high schools that rising middle-schoolers in a select part of Montgomery County, Maryland choose from to attend for high school education. These high schools are Albert Einstein High School, John F.
Downcutting Downcutting, also called erosional downcutting or downward erosion is a geological process that deepens the channel of a stream or valley by removing material from the stream's bed or the valley's floor. How fast downcutting occurs depends on the stream's base level, which is the lowest point to which the stream can erode.
Downdrift In phonetics, downdrift is the cumulative lowering of pitch over time due to interactions among tones in a tonal language. It is distinct from the general lowering of the pitch during prosodic contours of a tonal or non-tonal language.
Downeaster The Downeaster is a 116-mile (187 km) passenger train route operated by Amtrak, connecting North Station in Boston, Massachusetts to Portland, Maine. In fiscal year 2006, it was Amtrak's fastest growing service, with overall ridership up 22.
Downed opponent A downed opponent (also called a grounded opponent) refers to a combatant that is on the ground, as compared to a combatant that is in a standing position. This commonly implies that the downed combatant is lying on the ground, but can technically refer to any position in which anything except the soles of the combatants feet are touching the ground.
Downend air crash The Downend air crash occurred on November 6, 1957 when a prototype Type 301 Bristol Britannia aircraft, G-ANCA, crashed in woods near Overndale Road in Downend Village on its landing approach at Filton airport during a test flight.
Downend Comprehensive School Downend School has a Technology College Status and was former comprehensive school in Downend a suburban village in South Gloucestershire. The school is Mixed gender Non Denominational religion and has recently a undergone a transfer from a split site school to a single site school on Westerleigh Road, Downend.
Downers Grove North Downers Grove North High School, or DGNHS, and locally referred to as "North," is a public four year high school located near the corner of Main Street and Ogden Avenue in Downers Grove, Illinois, a western suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. It is part of Community High School District 99, which also includes Downers Grove South High School.
Downers Grove South Downers Grove South High School, or DGS, and locally referred to as "South," is a public four-year high school located at the corner of Dunham Road and 63rd Street in Downers Grove, Illinois, a western suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. It is part of Community High School District 99, which also includes Downers Grove North High School.
Downes v. Bidwell Downes v. Bidwell, , was a case in which the United States Supreme Court decided whether United States territories were subject to the provisions and protections of the United States Constitution This question is sometimes stated as "does the Constitution follow the flag?
Downfall (band) Downfall was a ska and punk band from the Bay Area formed by Tim Armstrong, Matt Freeman, Dave Mello, Pat Mello, and Jason Hammon following the break-up of Operation Ivy in 1989 and pre-dating Armstrong's and Freeman's wider recognition in Rancid. They performed three shows at Gilman over a period of three months: one of these shows was recorded.
Downfield Sixth Form Downfield Sixth Form is a sixth-form college, and mainly consists of Years 12 and 13 from Marling School, and SHS students. Downfield is also part of the Stroud Post 16 Consortium which includes Archway School and Stroud College.
Downham Downham is a district spanning the boundary between the London Borough of Lewisham and the London Borough of Bromley. The dominant feature of the area is the Downham Estate built by the London County Council during the late 1920s.
Downham Market Downham Market, also known simply as Downham, is a town and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It lies on the River Great Ouse, some 20 km south of the town of King's Lynn, 60 km west of the city of Norwich and the same distance north of the city of Cambridge.
Downhaul The downhaul is a line which is part of the rigging on a sailboat; it applies downward force on a spar or sail. The most common downhaul on a modern sailboat is attached to the spinnaker pole, although the term is also commonly applied to the cunningham on the mainsail.
Downhere downhere is a Juno, Dove, and Covenant Award winning Christian Rock (melodic alt-rock) band from Canada. They have released three albums to date, with the third being Wide-Eyed And Mystified, which was released on May 23, 2006.
Downhill bike A downhill bike (also known as a downhill mountain bike) is a full suspension bicycle designed for mountain biking, particularily for very steep, rocky trails. Unlike a typical mountain bike, durability and stability are the most important design features, at the cost of heavier weights than lighter, more versatile, cross-country bikes.
Downhill Battle Downhill Battle is a non-profit organization based in Worcester, Massachusetts. It launched in August 2003 and argues that the four major recording labels have an oligopoly that is bad for both musicians and music culture.
Downhill creep Downhill creep, or commonly just creep, is the slow progression of rock and soil down a low grade slope; it can also refer to slow deformation of such materials as a result of prolonged pressure and stress. The rate of soil creep down a slope depends on the steepness of the slope itself - the steeper the slope, the faster the creep.
Downhill cycling Downhill cycling (DH) is a gravity-assisted time trial mountain biking event. Riders race against the clock, starting at intervals that can vary from 30 seconds to three minutes-depending on the stage of the competition.
Downhill folding Downhill folding, a key prediction of the energy landscape theory, is a process in which there is no free energy barrier between the unfolded state and the folded state. It is predicted to occur under conditions of extreme native bias, i.
Downing Site The Downing Site is a major site of the University of Cambridge, located in the centre of the city, on Downing Street & Tennis Court Road, adjacent to Downing College. The Downing Site is the larger and newer of two city-centre science sites of the university (the other is the New Museums Site).
Downing Stadium Downing Stadium was a 22,000 seat football stadium in the city of New York. Built in 1934 on Randall's Island in the East River as a WPA project, it served as the home stadium of the New York Stars of the WFL in 1974, and the New York Cosmos of the NASL in 1975.
Downing Street Downing Street is the famous street in central London which contains the buildings that have been, for over two hundred years, the official residences of two of the most senior British cabinet ministers, the First Lord of the Treasury, an office held by the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and the Second Lord of the Treasury, an office held by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The most famous address in Downing Street is 10 Downing Street, the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury—and thus, in modern times, the residence of the Prime Minister, since the two roles have been filled by the same person.
Downing Street Declaration The Downing Street Declaration was a joint declaration issued on December 15, 1993 by the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, John Major and Albert Reynolds, the Taoiseach (prime minister) of the Republic of Ireland. It affirmed the right of the people of Northern Ireland to self-determination, and that the province would be transferred to the Republic of Ireland from the United Kingdom if and only if a majority of its population was in favour of such a move.
Downing Street memo The "Downing Street memo" (occasionally DSM, or the "Downing Street Minutes"), sometimes described by critics of the Iraq War as the "smoking gun memo", contains an overview of a secret 23 July 2002 meeting among United Kingdom Labour government, defence and intelligence figures, discussing the build-up to the war—including direct reference to classified United States policy of the time. It clearly states that, "Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD.
Downingia Downingia is a genus of 13 annual plants native to western North America and Chile. Commonly known as "calicoflowers", they are notable for forming mass displays of small but colorful blooms around vernal pools.
Downingtown High School Downingtown High School is a secondary school located in Downingtown, Pennsylvania. Population growth in the burgeoning Downingtown Area School district forced the original Downingtown High School to split into two campuses: Downingtown High School East Campus and Downingtown High School West Campus.
Downingtown, Pennsylvania Downingtown is a borough in Chester County, Pennsylvania, 33 miles (53 km) west of Philadelphia. Downingtown has been in existence since the early 1700's and boasts a number of historic buildings and structures.
Downlands Countryside Management Project The Downlands Countryside Management Project is a partnership between several London and Surrey local authorities set up to manage an area of countryside of 130 km² across the south of Outer London, with four main aims:
Downley Downley is a village in Buckinghamshire, England. It is the principal centre of population of the 4,768 (as at 2001) residents of Downley Parish Council and is located high in the Chiltern Hills], overlooking the [[town of High Wycombe.
Download (band) Download is an electronic music group formed by Dwayne Goettel and cEvin Key of Skinny Puppy during 1994. The initial lineup also included Off and Gone's Phil Western and Mark Spybey of Dead Voices on Air, but has since been particularly fluid, with Key and Western being the only constant members after Goettel's death.
Download manager A download manager is a computer program designed to download files from the Internet, unlike a web browser, which is mainly intended to browse webpages on the World Wide Web (with file downloading being of secondary importance).
Download This Song "Download This Song" is a track from The Graduate album by MC Lars and features Jaret Reddick of Bowling for Soup. The lyrics of the song are based on the book, The Future of Music: Manifesto for the Digital Music Revolution (ISBN 0-87639-059-9) by Dave Kusek and Gerd Leonhard.
Downloadable Conditional Access System Downloadable Conditional Access System or DCAS is a proposal advanced by CableLabs for secure software download of a specific Conditional Access client (computer program) which controls Digital Rights Management (DRM) into a OCAP-compliant host consumer media device. The National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA) proposes that DCAS be used as a substitute for physical CableCARDs, a standard also created by CableLabs for which products began appearing in August, 2004.
Downlode Downlode is a fictional city in British comic 2000 AD's story Sinister Dexter.Created by Dan Abnett and David Millgate It is sprawled across late 21st centurty Central Europe "like a hit and run victim".
Downpatrick (UK Parliament constituency) Downpatrick was a former United Kingdom Parliament constituency, in Ireland, returning one MP. It was an original constituency represented in Parliament when the Union of Great Britain and Ireland took effect on 1 January, 1801.
Downrange Downrange is the horizontal distance travelled by a spacecraft, or the spacecraft's horizontal distance from the launch site. More often, it is used as an adverb or adjective specifying the direction of that travel being measured in a horizontal direction.
Downrigger A downrigger is a device used in fishing by the trolling method which places a lure down th the desired depth. A downrigger consists of a fishing rod-like device suspending a cannonball (large weight) by a steel cable (generally stainless steel).
Downs Preparatory School Founded in 1894Official website, and originally set on the Clifton Downs, the Downs School is a popular preparatory school feeding public schools throughout the South and the Midlands. It is currently located in an Elizabethan country house near Wraxall in North Somerset.
Downs-Thomson paradox Downs-Thomson paradox, also referred to as the Pigou-Knight-Downs paradox, states that the equilibrium speed of car traffic on the road network is determined by the average door-to-door speed of equivalent journeys by (rail-based or otherwise segregated) public transport.
Downscaling Global climate models (GCMs) are run at coarse spatial resolution (typically of the order 50,000 km²) and are unable to resolve important sub-grid scale features such as clouds and topography. As a result GCMs can’t be used for local impact studies.
Downside, New South Wales Downside is a farming community in the central east part of the Riverina and situated about 15 kilometres north west from Wagga Wagga and 24 kilometres south east from Coolamon. It has a population within a 7 kilometre radius of approximately 1432 people.
Downsize DC Foundation Downsize DC (formerly known as the American Liberty Foundation) is a non-partisan organization which aims to limit the size of government in the United States through awareness and petitioning government. It was founded by two-time Libertarian presidential candidate Harry Browne, his former campaign staff members Perry Willis and Jim Babka, and former National Chair of the Libertarian Party Steve Dasbach.
Downstate New York Downstate New York is a term for the southeasternmost portion of New York State, United States, in contrast to Upstate New York. It should be noted that the term "Downstate New York" has significantly less currency than its counterpart term "Upstate New York", and the Downstate region is often not regarded as one cohesive unit but rather thought of as being divided into the units which make it up - New York City, Long Island, and the northern suburbs of New York City (consisting of Westchester County, Rockland County, etc.
Downstep (phonetics) In phonetics, downstep is a phonemic or phonetic downward shift of tone between the syllables or words of a tonal language. It is best known in the languages of West Africa, but the pitch accent of Japanese (a non-tonal language) is quite similar to downstep in Africa.
Downstream (bioprocess) The downstream part of a bioprocess refers to the part where the cell mass from the upstream are processed to meet purity and quality requirements. Downstream processing is usually divided into three main sections, a capture section, a purification section and a polishing section.
Downstream (computer science) In information technology, downstream refers to the transfer speed (usually that of an internet connection) by which data can be sent from the server to the client. The process by which downstream is utilized is known as downloading.
Downstream (oil industry) The downstream oil sector is a term commonly used to refer to the refining of crude oil, and the selling and distribution of products derived from crude. Such products include gas, petrol, diesel and other kinds of fuel.
Downstream processing Downstream processing refers to the recovery and purification of biosynthetic products, particularly pharmaceuticals, from natural sources such as animal or plant tissue or fermentation broth, including the recycling of salvageable components and the proper treatment and disposal of waste. It is an essential step in the manufacture of pharmaceuticals such as antibiotics, hormones (e.
Downstream QoS Downstream QoS (see Qos) is a technology innovation that enhances VoIP calls by improving the clarity of incoming voice. When data floods the caller's downstream Internet-access line, Downstream QoS can throttle incoming data to ensure time-sensitive voice traffic gets through promptly to the listener.
Downsview Downsview is an area in the north end of Toronto, Ontario, Canada and also the name of a Toronto Transit Commission subway station in the area (see Downsview (TTC)). Downsview was originally a farm located in the 1870's near the present-day intersection of Keele Street and Wilson Avenue.
Downsville, Wisconsin Downsville is an unincorporated community in the Town of Dunn, in Dunn County, Wisconsin; the town government of Dunn is located in the area. Founded at a crossing of the Red Cedar River in 1855, the community is home to about 200 people.
Downtempo Downtempo (or Downbeat) is a laid-back electronic music style. Often the name chill out music is used to refer to songs demonstrative of the genre, but those names also refer to other styles of music, and downtempo encompasses a wider variety of styles than those terms alone would indicate.
Downtime Downtime refers to a period of time or a percentage of a timespan that a machine or system (usually a computer server) is offline or not functioning, usually as a result of either system failure (such as a crash) or routine maintenance. The opposite is uptime.
Downtime (Doctor Who) Downtime is a motion picture spin-off of the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was released direct-to-video and produced by the independent production company Reeltime Pictures.
Downtown In American and Canadian cities, the term downtown refers to the heart of a city, which is usually the city's central business district. This is by analogy with its coinage in New York City, where downtown was first used to refer to the original town on southern tip of the island of Manhattan.
Downtown (Athens) Downtown Athens in Athens, Georgia is generally considered to be the area bounded on the north by Prince Avenue, Dougherty Street and North Avenue; on the South by Broad Street and the University of Georgia campus; on the West by Milledge Avenue; and on the East by Foundry Street.
Downtown (owarai) Downtown (ă€ă‚¦ăłă‚żă‚¦ăł) is a Japanese comedy duo (kombi) consisting of Hitoshi Matsumoto (松本人志) and Masatoshi Hamada (浜田雅功). Downtown is probably the most influential kombi to come from Yoshimoto KĹŤgyĹŤ, and is arguably the most popular kombi in Japan today.
Downtown (song) "Downtown" is a pop song composed by Tony Hatch following a first-time visit to New York City. It was his original intention to present it to The Drifters, but when British singer Petula Clark heard the incomplete tune, she proposed that if he could write lyrics to match the quality of the melody, she would be interested in recording it.
Downtown (Vancouver) Downtown Vancouver is the term used to describe the southeastern portion of the peninsula in the north-central part of Vancouver proper. It is the business, commercial, cultural, and entertainment centre of the city and also of the Greater Vancouver Regional District.
Downtown Albuquerque Downtown Albuquerque is the central business district of Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is where a large number of the city's highrise buildings are located, as well as being the center of government and business for the region.
Downtown Art Space Downtown Art Space was an Artist Run Initiative (ARI) started in 2002 in an abandoned 1980's dodgem car rink in Adelaide, South Australia by artists Andrew Best, Bridget Currie, Louise Flaherty, Chris Flanagan and Viv Miller. It conducted many exhibitions in this first site, focusing mainly on the exhibition of video, performance, and other then neglected media.
Downtown Berkeley (BART station) Downtown Berkeley BART is a Bay Area Rapid Transit station located on Shattuck Avenue, between Allston Way and Addison Street in Downtown Berkeley, California. Signs in the station itself read simply "Berkeley," but BART schedules and maps label the station "Downtown Berkeley.
Downtown Berkeley, California Downtown Berkeley is the central district of the city of Berkeley, California, centered around the intersection of Shattuck Avenue and Center Street, and extending north to Hearst Avenue, south to Dwight Way, west to Martin Luther King Jr. Way, and east to Oxford Street.
Downtown Bernalillo (Rail Runner station) Downtown Bernalillo is a station-to-be on the New Mexico Rail Runner Express commuter rail line. A delay in track acquisition has pushed back the opening date for this station to sometime in Early 2007(possibly January).
Downtown Brooklyn Downtown Brooklyn is the third largest central business district in New York City (following Midtown Manhattan and Lower Manhattan), and is located in the northwestern section of the borough of Brooklyn. The numerous office buildings including the Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower and 4 MetroTech Center in the district give the area its own skyline distinct from Manhattan's.
Downtown Burbank (Metrolink station) The Burbank Metrolink Station, sometimes referred to as the Burbank Transportation Center, is a Metrolink rail station near downtown Burbank, California. It is served by Metrolink's Antelope Valley Line to Lancaster and Ventura County Line to Montalvo, Ventura and both terminating at Los Angeles Union Station.
Downtown Campbell (VTA) Downtown Campbell (VTA) is a Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority light rail station, located in downtown Campbell. Downtown Campbell station contains one island platform, and marks the beginning of a double-track section which continues to the end of line, Winchester station in western Campbell.
Downtown Cleveland Downtown Cleveland is the central business district of the City of Cleveland and Northeast Ohio. Reinvestment in the area in the mid-1990s spurred a rebirth that continues to this day, with over $2 billion in capital projects slated to involve the downtown area over the next few years.
Downtown Core The Downtown Core is an urban planning area in the south of the city-state of Singapore. The Downtown Core surrounds the mouth of the Singapore River and southeastern portion of its watershed, and is part of the Central Area, Singapore's central business district.
Downtown Crossing Downtown Crossing is a shopping district in Boston, Massachusetts, located due south of the Boston Common and west of the Financial District. It features large department stores -- at one time including the flagship stores of both the Filene's and Jordan Marsh chains (a large Macy's department store replaced Jordan Marsh's Downtown Crossing location in 1996 following the merger between the chains; the Filene's store closed in 2006, when the chain was acquired by Macy's and the Filene's name was phased out) -- as well as restaurants, music stores, souvenirs, general retail establishments, and many street vendors.
Downtown Dallas Downtown Dallas is the main central business district of Dallas, Texas (USA), located in the geographic center of the city. The area officially termed 'downtown' is bounded by the downtown freeway loop: made up on the east by I-345 (although known and signed as the northern terminus of I-45 and the southern terminus of US 75 (Central Expressway)), on the west by I-35E, on the south by I-30, and on the north by Spur-366 (Woodall Rodgers Freeway).
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