The Midtown Gazette

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


Category: Lifestyle
  • Porno stores dwindle in Midtown

    Porno stores dwindle in Midtown

    Adult video stores are moving away from an area once known for having the highest concentration of x-rated venues in New York, as the city continues putting pressure on this industry.

  • Room service change at Hilton leads a new industry trend

    Room service change at Hilton leads a new industry trend

    The New York Hilton Midtown hotel ceased traditional room service and replaced it with Herb N’ Kitchen, a grab-n-go cafeteria. Some other major New York City hotels are reducing room service hours, suggesting a new trend.

  • Luxe Hotels Up the Ante with Amenities

    Luxe Hotels Up the Ante with Amenities

    Be it a legendary skyscraper or a new, edgy, avant garde hotel, the lodging industry is spending more and more on extras.

  • Upscale Consignment Shops Sprout Up in Chelsea

    Upscale Consignment Shops Sprout Up in Chelsea

    A new wave of luxury consignment shops in Chelsea reflects the style of the neighborhood for less than half the price.

  • How Craft Beer is Changing the Industry

    How Craft Beer is Changing the Industry

    Beer is one of the oldest beverages in the world. However, recent trends towards craft beer have changed the industry, consumer demands as well as the product itself tremendously.

  • Target and Neiman Marcus Pop Up for the Holidays

    Target and Neiman Marcus Pop Up for the Holidays

    Target and Neiman Marcus opened up shop in Midtown for one day only to celebrate their holiday gift collection, Holiday24.

  • Crowds Get Sneak Peek of the Macy’s Parade Balloons

    Crowds Get Sneak Peek of the Macy’s Parade Balloons

    Macy’s began inflating their Thanksgiving Day Parade balloons in the streets around the Museum of Natural History, between 79th and 81st street, at 3 p.m. the day before the parade, drawing huge crowds. Visitors were allowed to enter the enclosure at 79th Street and make their way around the museum before exiting at the same spot.…

  • The Rockefeller Center Tree Lighting Approaches

    The Rockefeller Center Tree Lighting Approaches

    The 80th Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, a Norway spruce from Joseph Balku of Flanders, New Jersey, will be lit with 45,000 lights on November 28. Along with Saks Fifth Avenue’s holiday windows and the Radio City Music Hall’s Christmas Spectacular just blocks away, the Rockefeller Center tree is a staple of New York City’s holiday. Visitors…

  • Saks Unveils Holiday Windows

    Saks Unveils Holiday Windows

    Amid much fanfare, Saks Fifth Avenue revealed its legendary Christmas windows to over 100 people lined up along the sidewalk in front of the store. This year’s window theme revolves around the snowflake – with tableaus involving snow globes, snowflakes as kaleidoscopic images and a snowball fight. Earlier in the day, while the windows were…

  • Google’s Up in Chelsea

    Google’s Up in Chelsea

    It is finally here, the Google logo that prominently tells the world of the company’s presence in Chelsea. Google’s 111 Eighth Avenue office installed a one-story-tall logo facing Chelsea Market on Sunday morning. Although Google opened the Chelsea office in 2008 and signed the contract to buy the building in 2010, its public profile is now…

  • Family Day at Citi Pond

    Family Day at Citi Pond

    Citi Pond held its third annual family day event at the south west corner of the Bryant Park ice-skating rink, on the sunny Saturday before Thanksgiving. “We want to create a free event family can enjoy together,” said Alexa Harrison, the press relation. Several hundred parents and children came to the park for an afternoon…

  • Sweater Tree Brightens Hell’s Kitchen

    Sweater Tree Brightens Hell’s Kitchen

    Wrapped in whimsical knitted stripes in bright colors and smiley faces, a tree in a sweater stands before the red storefront of Domus, a 10-year-old home décor store on 44th Street near Ninth Avenue.   Many neighborhood residents pass the tree with brief smiles, while visitors stop to look more closely or take pictures. “It’s making me cold,”…

  • Coach Moves Corporate Headquarters to New Hudson Yards High-Rise

    Coach Moves Corporate Headquarters to New Hudson Yards High-Rise

    Luxury leather goods company Coach Inc. will be the anchor tenant of Hudson Yards’ first office tower.

  • How to — Literally — Find the Date of Your Dreams

    How to — Literally — Find the Date of Your Dreams

    A first location based mobile phone application for Jewish singles was launched early September to help people meet their prospective dates in real time.

  • Pink Floods the Marketplace for Breast Cancer Awareness Month

    Pink Floods the Marketplace for Breast Cancer Awareness Month

    A New Balance fashion show for breast cancer awareness shed light on a hot topic this October: pinkwashing.

  • Study Says Sexting Risky, But Most Teens Know Better

    Study Says Sexting Risky, But Most Teens Know Better

    A recent study in the journal Pediatrics linked sexting to risky sexual behavior, but adolescents who do sext are still in the minority. Text-savvy teens at the High School for Fashion Industries know to be careful when they press send.

  • Louboutin’s Red Sole Prevails in Trademark Battle

    Louboutin’s Red Sole Prevails in Trademark Battle

    French shoe designer Christian Louboutin’s red-soled shoe remains popular in the wake of a trademark lawsuit against luxury fashion house Yves Saint Laurent.

  • Then and Now: Holiday Season in Midtown

    Then and Now: Holiday Season in Midtown

    Midtown’s busy sidewalks and shimmering decorations are trademarks of the holiday season in Manhattan. A special visit to Macy’s Santa, window-watching on Fifth Avenue and ice-skating beneath the Rockefeller Christmas tree are among the many holiday traditions enjoyed by children, grown-ups, and tourists alike. According to Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the total number of tourists in…

  • Holiday Happenings in Midtown

    Holiday Happenings in Midtown

    Wonder what’s going on this holiday season? Everything from tree lightings to holiday markets are in store for visitors and residents.

  • Midtown’s Meaty Mecca

    Midtown’s Meaty Mecca

    The halal cart on 53rd Street and Sixth Avenue is probably the worst-kept secret in the city. If you don’t hear about it from a friend first, it’s hard to miss, even on this busy intersection — a line of hungry patrons stretches down the block. The Egyptian four-man team at New York’s Best Halal…