Ryan Downtown
@ryandowntown.bsky.social
Community builder. Grant Manager. Chair, NLB Advisory Board. Dedicated to housing justice and local accountability. #CitiesWorkWhenPeopleDo #CivicEngagementMatters #WeAllDoBetterWhenWeAllDoBetter #DowntownDemocrat #RUN #StreetsAhead
Grateful to close out the year having helped municipalities and counties across #NewJersey secure $13.9 million in grant funding for parks, workforce development programs, food pantries, libraries, and placemaking projects.
Here’s to a successful 2026! 🎉🥳🍻
Here’s to a successful 2026! 🎉🥳🍻
December 30, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Grateful to close out the year having helped municipalities and counties across #NewJersey secure $13.9 million in grant funding for parks, workforce development programs, food pantries, libraries, and placemaking projects.
Here’s to a successful 2026! 🎉🥳🍻
Here’s to a successful 2026! 🎉🥳🍻
Best Christmas movies of all time:
5. Scrooged
4. Home Alone
3. A Christmas Story
2. How the Grinch Stole Christmas
1. A Muppets Christmas Carol
I won’t be taking any questions at this time 😂 🎄🎅🏾
5. Scrooged
4. Home Alone
3. A Christmas Story
2. How the Grinch Stole Christmas
1. A Muppets Christmas Carol
I won’t be taking any questions at this time 😂 🎄🎅🏾
December 25, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Best Christmas movies of all time:
5. Scrooged
4. Home Alone
3. A Christmas Story
2. How the Grinch Stole Christmas
1. A Muppets Christmas Carol
I won’t be taking any questions at this time 😂 🎄🎅🏾
5. Scrooged
4. Home Alone
3. A Christmas Story
2. How the Grinch Stole Christmas
1. A Muppets Christmas Carol
I won’t be taking any questions at this time 😂 🎄🎅🏾
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It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.
December 6, 2025 at 2:44 PM
It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.
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0 DAYS fighting for health care, 43 DAYS on vacation.
Republicans own the health care crisis AND the longest shutdown in American history.
Republicans own the health care crisis AND the longest shutdown in American history.
December 3, 2025 at 6:01 PM
0 DAYS fighting for health care, 43 DAYS on vacation.
Republicans own the health care crisis AND the longest shutdown in American history.
Republicans own the health care crisis AND the longest shutdown in American history.
Nice morning jog in the fog with the #BrickCityRunClub 🏃🏾 🧱
November 26, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Nice morning jog in the fog with the #BrickCityRunClub 🏃🏾 🧱
Congrats to the NJDOT Municipal Aid FY26 awardees!! Grateful for the opportunity to work alongside Dover, Elmwood Park, Leonia and Camden City for a combined $1,758,787! Here’s to continued progress to build safer, stronger communities! 🚧🚦
dot.nj.gov/transportati...
dot.nj.gov/transportati...
November 20, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Congrats to the NJDOT Municipal Aid FY26 awardees!! Grateful for the opportunity to work alongside Dover, Elmwood Park, Leonia and Camden City for a combined $1,758,787! Here’s to continued progress to build safer, stronger communities! 🚧🚦
dot.nj.gov/transportati...
dot.nj.gov/transportati...
Learned how to make Elderberry syrup 🫐🍯🫚 with some pretty dope people today. Thanks Rabbit Hole Farm!
November 14, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Learned how to make Elderberry syrup 🫐🍯🫚 with some pretty dope people today. Thanks Rabbit Hole Farm!
Big thanks to Ridge Street School for giving me the opportunity to talk with ya’ll about the impact #GrantWriting can have on a community. Thank you Millennium Strategies for giving me something worth talking about. ✍🏾 💵 🏙️ #GoTigers
November 12, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Big thanks to Ridge Street School for giving me the opportunity to talk with ya’ll about the impact #GrantWriting can have on a community. Thank you Millennium Strategies for giving me something worth talking about. ✍🏾 💵 🏙️ #GoTigers
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Grow your garden and help others tend to theirs when you can. We’re all we’ve got.
November 10, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Grow your garden and help others tend to theirs when you can. We’re all we’ve got.
Philadelphia Rocky Run!! 🏃🏾💨⚡️
November 8, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Philadelphia Rocky Run!! 🏃🏾💨⚡️
👏 Congratulations to Hamilton Township for being awarded over $79,000 from the NJ Historic Trust Fund! Here’s to more wins that keep our history alive and our neighborhoods thriving. 🏛️ 🔨 💵 #GrantSuccess #HistoricPreservation #CommunityWins #HamiltonTownship
www.nj.gov/dca/njht/new...
www.nj.gov/dca/njht/new...
November 5, 2025 at 11:48 PM
👏 Congratulations to Hamilton Township for being awarded over $79,000 from the NJ Historic Trust Fund! Here’s to more wins that keep our history alive and our neighborhoods thriving. 🏛️ 🔨 💵 #GrantSuccess #HistoricPreservation #CommunityWins #HamiltonTownship
www.nj.gov/dca/njht/new...
www.nj.gov/dca/njht/new...
Vote. Your voice matters. #CivicEngagementMatters
November 4, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Vote. Your voice matters. #CivicEngagementMatters
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🗳️✅ It's Election Day! Polls are open 6am-8pm today. In other #NJ #policy news, federal judges ordered the USDA to use contingency funds to keep SNAP benefits flowing; @northjerseynews.bsky.social published an expose on the barriers people w/disabilities face when accessing health care; Read more:
Election Day Begins in New Jersey – NJ State Policy Updates - New Jersey State Policy Lab
Public Administration New Jerseyans Head to the Polls for 2025 Gubernatorial Election - Today, November 4, is Election Day, which means New Jerseyans up and down the coast will have the opportunity to...
policylab.rutgers.edu
November 4, 2025 at 2:59 PM
🗳️✅ It's Election Day! Polls are open 6am-8pm today. In other #NJ #policy news, federal judges ordered the USDA to use contingency funds to keep SNAP benefits flowing; @northjerseynews.bsky.social published an expose on the barriers people w/disabilities face when accessing health care; Read more:
🚒 Congratulations to the Camden City FD on being awarded FEMA Port Security, FEMA AFG, and a US HUD Sect 108 application, totaling over $6.9M! 👨🏾🚒🧯
These investments will strengthen emergency response and support the brave first responders who protect. #MondayMotivation #GrantWritingWins ✍🏾 📝 ✅
These investments will strengthen emergency response and support the brave first responders who protect. #MondayMotivation #GrantWritingWins ✍🏾 📝 ✅
November 3, 2025 at 7:09 PM
🚒 Congratulations to the Camden City FD on being awarded FEMA Port Security, FEMA AFG, and a US HUD Sect 108 application, totaling over $6.9M! 👨🏾🚒🧯
These investments will strengthen emergency response and support the brave first responders who protect. #MondayMotivation #GrantWritingWins ✍🏾 📝 ✅
These investments will strengthen emergency response and support the brave first responders who protect. #MondayMotivation #GrantWritingWins ✍🏾 📝 ✅
Rent-seeking behavior is a distortion of markets where wealth is gained not by producing goods or services, but by controlling scarce resources and should have no place in a capitalist society.
Ending Rent-Seeking Behavior: How New Jersey Can Fix Its Housing Crisis
The state of New Jersey is undergoing a deepening housing affordability crisis, where both renters and homeowners struggle against high…
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November 2, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Rent-seeking behavior is a distortion of markets where wealth is gained not by producing goods or services, but by controlling scarce resources and should have no place in a capitalist society.
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Hello, New Jersey! There’s a lot at stake in this election, and I’m here tonight to talk about why @mikiesherrill.bsky.social should be your next Governor. Watch live:
Mikie Sherrill and Barack Obama rally voters in Newark
YouTube video by Mikie Sherrill for New Jersey
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November 1, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Hello, New Jersey! There’s a lot at stake in this election, and I’m here tonight to talk about why @mikiesherrill.bsky.social should be your next Governor. Watch live:
“Kids don’t play outside anymore”
Outside:
Outside:
November 1, 2025 at 5:05 PM
“Kids don’t play outside anymore”
Outside:
Outside:
Happy Halloween 🍍 👻 🍹
October 31, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Happy Halloween 🍍 👻 🍹
Getting ready for a good ol’ Trunk or Treat 🎃 👻 🧙♀️ 🐈⬛
October 31, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Getting ready for a good ol’ Trunk or Treat 🎃 👻 🧙♀️ 🐈⬛
Top 5 Halloween Movies
1. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 🐎
2. ParaNorman 🧟
3. Addams Family Values ✋🏾
4. Hocus Pocus 🧙♀️
5. Gremlins 🦇
Honorable mention: any 90s TV show Halloween special.
1. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 🐎
2. ParaNorman 🧟
3. Addams Family Values ✋🏾
4. Hocus Pocus 🧙♀️
5. Gremlins 🦇
Honorable mention: any 90s TV show Halloween special.
October 30, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Top 5 Halloween Movies
1. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 🐎
2. ParaNorman 🧟
3. Addams Family Values ✋🏾
4. Hocus Pocus 🧙♀️
5. Gremlins 🦇
Honorable mention: any 90s TV show Halloween special.
1. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 🐎
2. ParaNorman 🧟
3. Addams Family Values ✋🏾
4. Hocus Pocus 🧙♀️
5. Gremlins 🦇
Honorable mention: any 90s TV show Halloween special.
Shoutout to Pennsylvania’s Allentown Public Library #PublicLibrariesRock #CivicEngagementMatters
October 30, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Shoutout to Pennsylvania’s Allentown Public Library #PublicLibrariesRock #CivicEngagementMatters