Downtown Ithaca Alliance (aka Ithaca Downtown Partnership) Reviews

It's a beautiful scenic place to walk n stay.. loving it..

I love this place!!
So very quaint
Smalltown Ithaca, N.Y. where there is so much to do!!!!



All there in Ithaca Commons!!!

Fun! Love all the shops! Places like these are treasures!

There is a eclectic variety of local shops, restaurants and even a movie theatre. High quality local goods and art for sale. There is a fun playground, places to sit and small artistic sculptures.

awesome area for shopping and restaurants in a great college town

Many of the stores are not vacant but it seems new businesses are moving in. Could see this area as a great tourist attraction if given the right attention

Atmospere, places to eat,.lively crowd, music in the street

Sell and trade clothes at Trader K's. A great second hand clothes store.

Best place for kids to run around. Also have a small play area for kids.

Quiet place, student atmosphere and refreshing: Ithaca, NY

Lots of places to shop & eat or just people watch. Always parking available nearby.

small pedestrian mall with local (not-chain) shops and restaurants.

Cool public art, scale model of the solar system that's also a nice short walk, some very good restaurants, great people watching.

Tons of places to go and hang out, whether you're in the mood for a restful coffee kava break, some ill-advised post hangover Waffle Frolic, or just shopping.

I love the commons! Plenty to see and do, with lots of shops and restaurants!

This was a very quiet and clean little area of shops with a playground for my child to play on. I also noticed they have a lot of cameras which I appreciate, especially because there was a man begging for money while showing people some kind of surgical or scar thing on his chest or stomach. Aside from the homeless person who wanted to expose parts of his body, the place was pretty neat and had some great shops.

Sceptical but satisfied. The Commons were recently renovated and the renovation took to long and was way over budget but results are good. I think it has done great things for the downtown. At night the Commons are now well lit and feel safe. There should be more outside restaurant seating incorporated like you see in Burlington, VT or any European city.

Oops - just wrote my narrative for this on rating for the shops at Ithaca mall. This place alphas the great indie movie theatre, cute crafts and gift shops and Co-working space. Near Cornell campus. Parking nearby too.

Ithaca is such a cool little spot to hangout. Somewhere between a college town and a small town

Open community planning, accessibility of a few bars and shops for 4 out of 5

Awesome downtown common area with no vehicle traffic. Tons of shops and even a little playground for kids.

Awesome shops, awesome location (Ithica is gorges!)

This place is great. There is so many restaurant options. Nice little part of town to take a walk

Please finish the construction site and bring back the kid's playground asap. Thanks.

Crowded, expensive, trendy, college students, not my idea of a good time . . . . And this is my home town. Don't get me wrong, LOVE the Library and Sunny Days store!

This place used to be called The Commons. Now any common folk are scarce to be found. Wealth and gentrification are taking over to the detriment of everyone else in the community. They spent 15 million dollars renovating this pedestrian mall for the 3rd or 4th time in my life time. Then they gave massive tax abatements for 2 huge, luxury housing developments that no one from this community can reasonably afford. All so wealthy hipsters can walk to $12 cocktail establishments and call themselves "sustainable". The only place worth going to down here is Autumn Leaves Used book store. Use the rear entrance and avoid the stink of "Downtown Ithaca".

Came while out here visiting for my cousins wedding, I ve never been to Ithaca before and have only heard great things. It lived up to my expectations for sure. We walked around for the afternoon. It s very cute, and all the shops and restaurants look cool. The streets are really clean, i would love to go back sometime.

The commons looks beautiful but the only place you can afford for everybody are the pizzerias everything else is so expensive

Cool pedestrian mall with a variety of retail stores and restaurants.

It's definitely a nice place there are way to many vape shop though

Great place to just walk around and visit cute shops

Construction is finished. Sigh.

Edit: Construction is NOT finished.

Great town. Lots to see and do.

The Cornell campuses are amazing,. The eye candy architecture is just amazing!!

Lots of great places to eat.

A brand new Marriott is in town. Just beautiful.

Love that you can walk without traffic. Nice little shops to go to

The commons are a wonderful place. Ithaca is lucky to be one of the few places that still have a "commons". Its a place where you see more diversity than anywhere else I have ever been and everyone gets along with each other better too

Good place for people watching, window shopping (cute shops), enjoying the local views of Ithaca, grabbing a bite to eat, or a coffee on your way to wherever)

This is a wonderful thing to do in a downtown area. Ithaca is a great city.

AWESOME. If you have never been, you will have to go So ECLECTIC!!!!

Love visiting. People are great. Would recommend to everyone. Local shopping and the best pizza in New York Sammie' pizza.

From out of town and stayed the night while traveling. Walked through the commons at 8pm on a Saturday and NOTHING was open aside from a pizza joint and hole in the wall bar in which a friend traveling with us got sick from beer line cleaner that wasn't properly flushed from the lines get into his draught beer

it's cool but the main thing that makes it dope is that it's on MLK St #1906 #APHIA