The Midtown Gazette

10/17/2020

Dear Friends: We are writing this letter with the hope that you will join the international call for a ceasefire to end the bloodshed and human and cultural carnage taking place since September 27, 2020 in what has been described as the “de facto Armenian republic of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh)” ...

03/13/2018

A cartoon by Peter Kuper.

04/18/2017

Racist judge assumes a black lawyer was the defendant, tells him to wait outside the courtroom for his lawyer. And after the lawyer explained who he was...

10/31/2015

The NYC Department for the Aging says, “older workers encounter ” as well as “limited work experience, poverty, disability, or language barriers" and helping these workers enter or return to the workforce has always been challenging. Numbers now show it may only get worse as grow older and resource funding gets smaller. Story by: Stassy Olmos

Although unemployment numbers for workers over the age of 65 are down, staff at various senior organizations around the city say that older workers who seek employment aren’t only facing language and skill barriers, but also a lack of government resources, with budget cuts of over 50 percent at a ti…

10/27/2015

http://themidtowngazette.com/2015/10/new-design-guidelines-attempt-to-protect-nyc-waterfront-sites/

The Waterfront Alliance's new design guidelines: assisting waterfront developers with designs that are environmentally sound and publicly accessible.
Story by: Cécile Borkhataria

The Waterfront Alliance, a nonprofit that works to influence waterfront policy and planning, had a meeting on October 8 with Manhattan Community Board 4 to promote a new set of guidelines for the development of waterfront projects in the district.

10/23/2015

The growth of Silicon Alley from a small group of startups to the country’s second largest startup hub comes with a price: a change in real-estate dynamics in the neighborhood. New York Venture Capital Association (NYVCA.org) Zumper

A map of coshared office spaces in Midtown Manhattan to accommodate the growth of startups in the neighborhood. Source: Digital.NYC, part of the New York City Economic Development Corporation.

10/23/2015

Stores survive despite the impact of the High Line and the Hudson Yards development.

A pocket of stores along west 30th Street between 10th and 11th avenues, at the intersection of the second and third phases of the High Line, is suffering much like old Western towns that were bypassed by trains and interstates. “Business slowed down when people exited over at 34th Street,” said Mol…

10/23/2015

Theater Breaking Through Barrier’s new production, The Granduncle Quadrilogy, is more physically challenging for its cast members than its traditional repertoire. The group has just brought the play to Croatia. Deaf West Theatre

Two legally-blind performers (left to right), Pamela Sabaugh, George Ashiotis and Ann Marie Morelli, who has multiple sclerosis, in the performance space on West 55 Street. Photo: Jingnan Peng.

10/23/2015

Tech heavyweights throw their capital behind the annual competition and the City Council keeps pushing open legislation. Meanwhile, the city’s 311 hotline receives thousands of service requests a day – all of them, of course, catalogued online. Beta NYC

“I like writing code and it magically coming up with numbers that are useful or meaningful to people,” said Nathan Johnson, an independent developer measuring bus performance in the city. “I think there is a huge opportunity for increasing equity, transparency and accountability.”

10/21/2015

Keeping it safe. The School Safety Act will require the New York Police Department and Department of Education to be more forthcoming in reporting about safety and disciplinary practices in the city’s public schools. Mayor Bill de Blasio

Bill sponsor Council Member Vanessa Gibson (D-Bronx) speaks at a press conference on Sep. 29, the day before the City Council voted in favor of the law.

10/21/2015

The New York Public Library’s oral histories project, Visible Lives, is now the nation’s largest audio archive of persons living with disabilities. Check it out. NYPL The New York Public Library

On September 26, eleven New Yorkers gathered at the Andrew Heiskell Braille & Talking Book Library, located at 40 West 20th St., for a meeting about a special oral history project that chronicles the lives of persons living with disabilities in New York City.

10/21/2015

Is it possible to live in a world without destitution? The Global Poverty Project, an international advocacy organization, proposes through global citizen activism, extreme poverty can be eliminated worldwide by 2030. Story by: Ariana Pyles

Fans flocked to the Great Lawn in Central Park for a concert to celebrate the Global Citizens Festival. Photo: Ariana Pyles.