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populations that once defined them. The purpose of this paper was to analyze the diminishing number of barrios in New York City using the examples of the transformation in Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan and the beginnings of gentrification in Bushwick, Brooklyn as the backdrop. The research focused mainly on how the Latino population felt about the renovation, displacement, living among people unlike them, and advantages of the gentrification process from their point of view. There are limitations…

In Remembrance of Aggie Fausnaugh (1929 – 2016) The Agnes H. Fausnaugh Endowed Scholarship Fund is a bequest from Aggie Fausnaugh, Ohio Wesleyan, to her beloved sorority, Kappa Kappa Gamma. Aggie Park attended Ohio Wesleyan University where she became a member of Rho Chapter in 1946. It was that same fall that Aggie met Hal A. Fausnaugh, a member of Beta Theta Pi and her future husband. From the moment she met Hal, she knew he was the guy for her. Kappa was another great love of Aggie’s life.…

$40,000-$80,000, living in and outside of Williamsburg and in the surrounding boroughs. The final tier is 45 and over with an income in the range of $55,000-$90,000 in the surrounding boroughs of New York. Williamsburg is located in the borough of Brooklyn community district 1, bordering Greenpoint to the north; Bedford–Stuyvesant to the south; Bushwick, East Williamsburg, and Ridgewood, Queens to the east; and Fort Greene and the East River to the west. Its water front offers a spectacular…

A Tree Grows In Brooklyn is a story about the life of Francie Nolan, a girl living in Williamsburg in the early 1900s. Although the novel focuses on Francie, it may also be a story about Brooklyn itself. Francie, though her experiences, describes the life of all the people in this city, and is a representative of Brooklyn life herself. Towards the end of the novel, a young girl Florry is sitting on the fire escape, watching Francie get ready for her date with Ben just as she watched people…

Historic Preservation is often seen as an elite club whose membership is bought by the cities' median income. A cycle of investment and disinvestment is what generates cities today. The lower class is constantly being displaced by economic actors to serve the middle class. Some will leave this cycle having benefitted from it, able to buy the ideal single family home. Others, the renters, will have been pushed to another soon to be or already blighted area. Progress in city growth has come…

I’m sure that some of you sitting in the audience would agree with me when I say East New York, Brooklyn has changed tremendously. There used to be a time when the streets in this neighborhood felt safe. Random shootings, robbery and rapes was nonexistent. You could send your kids outside to play feeling positive that they would return unharmed. At any time of the night, sitting on the stoops of your home enjoying the night time breeze and the sound of kids playing, having fun was a thing of…

Literature Walt Whitman Biography Walt Whitman was Born on may 31, 1819. He was born and was the second son of his father Walter Whitman.His father was a house builder and on top of that he had nine other children. The whitman family lived in brooklyn and long island in the 1820’s through 1830’s. When he was twelve Walt Whitman began to learn that he loved to write and read. He became fond of poems and books. He mainly taught himself to read and write. He liked to read the works of of…

Walt Whitman was born in eighteen nineteen in West Hills, New York. The second of nine kids, which would eventually fall to seven, his family suffered tremendous financial difficulties. While his father was a gifted builder and craftsman, their rural location, and their financially struggling neighbors, made it nearly impossible to maintain a steady income. Ultimately, at eleven, Whitman was forced to leave school to work in printing. Often, Whitman described his childhood as ‘miserable’ because…

Brooklyn Bridge and modernization of New York City Since Brooklyn Bridge was completed in the 19th century, it had been an iconic feature of the New York City. Being not only a bridge that connected Manhattan and Brooklyn for transportation convenience, Brooklyn Bridge had also become one of the greatest landmarks of New York City, even the U.S.A. To be honest, it is Brooklyn Bridge that contributes a lot to the development of the New York City and is the witness to the modernization of the New…

Whitman and his family moved to Brooklyn, when he was just three years old. In New York his father hoped to take advantage of the economic opportunities that were available, but unfortunately his earlier bad investments prevented him from achieving this success he craved so much. At just eleven years old, Whitman’s father took him out of school, so he could help with household income. At…