Brooklyn Museum

Brownsville, Brooklyn is not fair. Murder capital of NYC. 40% of our tenants live under the poverty line, 30+ years serving as Brooklyn’s lead example of an active urban war zone, an inevitably steady barrage of violence that punctuates all idle hours, and a constant over abundance of police officers, cars and helicopters that are flat out disturbing..in 2016. There’s no coincidence many Nas, Jay Z, and even Mobb Deep classics are still audibly relevant in content as you casually dodge 10…

Walt Whitman is a famous American poet. Walt Whitman was inspired to write poems about the Civil War and changed his style of writing after experiencing the horrible result of the war. He was worried the war was going to break the nation apart. Before the War had started Whitman had written some amazing poetry like “Leaves of Grass,” for example. He had also published many different versions of a book that had man different types of poetry within it. A lot of his writing came from his fears and…

To begin with, Weeksville is a neighborhood that resided in Bedford-Stuyvesant and Crown Heights, Brooklyn in 1838, but was originally located on Native American trial. It was named after a man called James Weeks who purchased some land. James Weeks were once a slave but was freed because slavery had ended in 1827 due to the fact gradual emancipation in New York on July 4th, 1827. This land was settled by African Americans after slavery abolished in New York in 1827 and grew during and after the…

every street corner; Fights are an every day occurrences on these streets, robberies are a dime-a-dozen. This is all you’ve ever come to know; you were born in to this life, and shaped by the streets. This is the story of Derrick Rose growing up in Brooklyn. Derrick grew up in a housing complex that housed an average of 40 families. Buildings like these are commonly found in inner city New York, and on any given block one may find 8 such buildings. This is just one side of a square block;…

Crown Heights, located in Brooklyn, is known to be a diverse neighborhood. It is notoriously known to an unsafe and run-down neighborhood, but the recent gentrification of the neighborhood is proving its reputation wrong. There have been numerous reports of tension and anti-Semitism between the Black people and Jews in Crown Heights. One of the main incidents that occurred between them is the August 1991 riot, which was said by Henry Goldschmidt, a scholarly author and researcher, to be the most…

Many South Brooklyn residents are very familiar with Avenues H to Z. But, how about Avenues A, B, or C? Or, what about Avenue G? Most of the streets in Brooklyn are named after numbers, people, places, or things. However, travelling south of Ditmas Park, through Midwood , and into Sheepshead Bay one will encounter several east-west streets named after letters of the alphabet. Now, why is that? In the late 1800s and early 1900s, the hilly areas of Northern and Western Brooklyn (Brooklyn…

Park Slope is neighborhood in Brooklyn that has become know as “highly desirable.” Park Slope is known for its historic buildings, shops that line Fifth and Seventh Avenues, bars and its proximity to Prospect Park. Around the 60’s and 70’s many of Park Slopes historic brownstones were cleaned up along with the rest of the neighborhood but before this Park Slope was a rough working-class neighborhood. Many neighborhoods, including Park Slope, are going through the process of gentrification. While…

going to advice you about City Tech strengths, weaknesses, opportunity and threats. City tech has been founded in 1946. There are about 7 building, and they are still building a new one. City Tech is a large public college of technology in downtown Brooklyn. According to the catalog City Tech offers “cognitive and affective strategies to 150 middle and high school students annually to promote awareness, interest and preparation for college and to prepare students who are interested in the…

Song of Myself “Song of Myself”, which is famous for “representing the core of Whitmans poetic vision” (Greenspan) was written in 1881 by Walt Whitman. This poem is baffling to many people because of both the symbolism and wordplay. Walt Whitman begins by introducing the subject in the poem, which is himself and he goes on by celebrating this theme. Whitman utilizes words such “I”, “myself” and his inner soul to generate a feel of being and depiction in specific sects of the poem. Whilst it…

Each one reaches seventy stories into the sky and weighs 27,000 tons, most of which is angles and plates to form and support it. Three million rivets and 1 ½ million bolts hold together the 26,000 tons of angles and plates. The Brooklyn tower drops 17 stories underground and the Staten Island tower drops 10 stories underground (Young 24). Parella 2 The most expensive project on the bridge was the $56.9 million cable spinning that holds down the 264,000-ton weight of the entire…