The Midtown Gazette

A Columbia Journalism School newsroom covering Midtown Manhattan in the heart of New York City.


Author: ANKITA RAO
  • LGBTQ Community Seeks Inclusive Holiday Celebrations

    LGBTQ Community Seeks Inclusive Holiday Celebrations

    The LGBTQ community finds congregations that welcome everyone for holiday worship.

  • Surviving the Economy, One Sandwich At A Time

    Surviving the Economy, One Sandwich At A Time

    In hard times, people like their sandwiches. And their burgers, fries and cheesecake. At least that’s what some of New York’s famous delis have been banking on in the current economy. Lucky for them, tight budgets and conservative spending had little impact on profits this year. Some owners say people might even be more likely…

  • Re-Made in the U.S.A.

    Re-Made in the U.S.A.

    After decades of outsourcing, some fashion designers are moving their production back to America.

  • Chelsea’s New School Goes “Glocal”

    Chelsea’s New School Goes “Glocal”

    Three-year-olds learning Mandarin, middle-school students studying immigration and sharing science fair projects through Skype – Avenues, The World School sees these as essential to its mission of raising global citizens. But as the new private K-12 school in Chelsea prepares for its August 2012 launch, community members and Avenues staff have continued to discuss how…

  • Remaking the Garment District

    Remaking the Garment District

    It takes a team to raise the Garment District. More than 70 urban planners, fashion designers, architects and community members have launched Making Midtown, a project that aims to provide solutions to Manhattan’s threatened fashion and manufacturing hub in midtown by 2012. Making Midtown is the second phase in an effort to bring the stakeholders…