Downtown ''Downtown'' is a term primarily used in North America by English speakers to refer to a city's sometimes commercial, cultural and often the historical, political and geographic heart. It is often synonymous with its central business distric ...

is the central business district of a city. Downtown or Down Town may also refer to:

Places

* Downtown, Rotherhithe, an area in London *

Downtown (Nevada gaming area) "Downtown Las Vegas Area" is the name assigned by the Nevada Gaming Control Board NGCB which includes the Downtown Las Vegas area casinos and the Stratosphere Tower which is located from Fremont Street. The city of Las Vegas uses the term Downt ...

, a neighborhood of Las Vegas *

Downtown (Washington, D.C.) Downtown is a neighborhood of Washington, D.C., as well as a colloquial name for the central business district in the northwest quadrant of the city. It is the fourth largest central business district in the United States. Historically, the Downto ...

, a neighborhood of Washington, D.C.

Film and television

* ''Downtown'' (film), a 1990 American comedy * '' Downtown: A Street Tale'', a 2004 American drama film * ''Downtown'' (1986 TV series), an American crime drama * ''Downtown'' (1999 TV series), an American animated series * "Downtown" (''American Dad!''), a 2020 TV episode

Music

Albums

* ''Downtown'' (Marshall Crenshaw album), 1985 * ''Downtown'' (Petula Clark album) or the title song (see below), 1965 * '' Downtown: Life Under the Gun'', an EP by August Alsina, or the title song, 2013

Songs

* "Downtown" (Anitta and J Balvin song), 2017 * "Downtown" (Crazy Horse song), or "Come On Baby Let's Go Downtown", 1971 * "Downtown" (Kids of 88 song), 2010 * "Downtown" (Lady Antebellum song), 2013 * "Downtown" (Lloyd Cole song), 1990 * "Downtown" (Macklemore & Ryan Lewis song), 2015 * "Downtown" (Neil Young song), 1995 * "Downtown" (Peaches song), 2006 * "Downtown" (Petula Clark song), written by Tony Hatch, 1964 * "

Down Town "Down Town" was a 1987 release by The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu (better known as The KLF). The song is gospel music driven by house music rhythms, incorporating a sample of Petula Clark's 1964 single "Downtown". Origins In 1987, Bill Drummond ...

", by the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, 1987 * "Down Town" / "Yasashisa ni Tsutsumareta Nara", by Maaya Sakamoto, covering the 1975 song by Sugar Babe (see below), 2010 * "Downtown", by Eraserheads from ''

Sticker Happy ''Sticker Happy'' (stylized in lowercase as ''sticker happy'') is the fifth studio album of the Filipino rock band Eraserheads. It was released under BMG Records (Pilipinas) Inc. on September 11, 1997. Produced by longtime collaborator Robin Riv ...

'', 1997 * "Downtown", by Gotthard from '' Gotthard'', 1992 * "Downtown", by Icona Pop from ''

Icona Pop Icona Pop ( ) is a Swedish electropop duo which formed in 2009, with electro house and indie pop music influences. Its two members, Caroline Hjelt (born 8 November 1987) and Aino Jawo (born 7 July 1986), grew up in Stockholm and create what the ...

'', 2012 * "Downtown", by

Kep1er Kep1er (; ) is a South Korean girl group formed through the Mnet reality survival competition show ''Girls Planet 999'' in 2021 and managed by Swing Entertainment and Wake One Entertainment. The group is composed of nine members: Kim Chae-hyun, ...

from ''Troubleshooter,'' 2022 * "Downtown", by Majical Cloudz from ''

Are You Alone? ''Are You Alone?'' is the fourth and final studio album from Canadian pop duo Majical Cloudz, released on October 16, 2015, on Matador Records. The album was nominated for a Juno Award in 2016. Critical reception ''Are You Alone?'' received l ...

'', 2015 * "Downtown", by

One 2 Many One 2 Many was a short-lived Norwegian-Swedish band consisting of Dag Kolsrud (keyboard instrument, keyboards), Camilla Griehsel (singing, vocals) and Jan Gisle Ytterdal (guitar). Formed in 1987, the band released their first and only album ''Mi ...

, 1988 * "Downtown", by SWV from '' It's About Time'', 1993 * "Downtown", by Toh Kay from '' You By Me: Vol. 1'', 2010 * "Down Town", by Sugar Babe, a band featuring Tatsuro Yamashita, 1975 * "Skid Row (Downtown)", from the musical '' Little Shop of Horrors'', 1982

Other

* Downtown music, a category of American music that originated in downtown Manhattan in the 1960s *

Downtown Music Holdings Downtown Music Holdings is a global independent rights management and music services company. Based in New York City, it has been composed of five divisions: Downtown Music Services, Fuga, Songtrust, Adrev and CD Baby. All divisions live under the ...

, a global independent rights management and music services company * Downtown Radio, a radio station based in Northern Ireland * Downtown Records, an American record label

People

Fred Brown (basketball) Fred Brown (born August 7, 1948), nicknamed "Downtown Freddie Brown", is an American former professional basketball player. A guard from the University of Iowa, he played 13 seasons ( 1971–1984) in the NBA, all with the Seattle SuperSonics. ...

(born 1948), American basketball player *

Downtown Julie Brown Julie Dorne Brown, better known as Downtown Julie Brown, is an English-born actress, television personality, SiriusXM DJ and former MTV VJ. Brown is best known as the host of the television music show ''Club MTV'', which ran from 1987 until 19 ...

(born 1963), English-born actress, DJ and VJ * Downtown (owarai), the Japanese comedy duo of Masatoshi Hamada and Hitoshi Matsumoto

Transportation

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, a mass transit line in Singapore ** Downtown MRT station, a station on the Downtown line * Downtown station (HART), a planned Honolulu Rail Transit station *

Downtown station (Capital MetroRail) Downtown (or Downtown-Convention Center) is a Capital MetroRail commuter rail station in Austin, Texas. It is located in Downtown Austin at the corner of Fourth and Neches Street behind the Austin Convention Center. It is the current southern t ...

, Austin, Texas

Other uses

* Downtown (G.I. Joe), a fictional character in the G.I. Joe universe *

Downtown Hotel The Downtown Hotel is an establishment at Second Avenue and Queen Street in Dawson City, Yukon, Canada. It contains 59 rooms. History Contrary to popular belief, the current hotel structure wasn't built in the late 1890s gold rush, because great ...

, Dawson City, Yukon, Canada * ''Down Town'' (magazine), a Greek weekly * Downtown, in

basketball terminology Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appr ...

, the area of the court beyond the three-point line * Downtown, a subgroup of the organized Ultras group Horde Zla * ''Downtown'', a 1994 novel by

Anne Rivers Siddons Anne Rivers Siddons (born Sybil Anne Rivers, January 9, 1936 – September 11, 2019) was an American novelist who wrote stories set in the southern United States. Early years The only child of Marvin and Katherine Rivers, she was born in Atlanta ...

* ''Downtown'', a 1990 novel by

Ed McBain Evan Hunter, born Salvatore Albert Lombino,(October 15, 1926 – July 6, 2005) was an American author and screenwriter best known for his 87th Precinct novels, written under his Ed McBain pen name, and the novel upon which the film ''Blackbo ...