Brooklyn

discussed how delicious, cheap, and authentic their food was. Some bloggers like Allison Bojarski on Gothamist.com admired not only the authenticity of the food but also the authenticity of the neighborhood regarding the “out-of-the-way corner of Brooklyn" and "hardscrabble housing projects" and artists. Essentially, foodies shaped Red Hook’s authenticity. Through the street food vendor’s massive media attention, city regulators caught light of the situation and decided to make their lives more…

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;…

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…

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…

Similar to Harlem, many cheap mom and pop stores in Bensonhurst have been closed down due to gentrification. The physical fabric of the neighborhood has experienced the displacement of stores, restaurants, and residents. Places, where Italian businesses used to be located, have been replaced. Evidently, there is a new cultural image being consumed, pertaining to its new beginning. For instance, two blocks away from Gino’s Focacceria is a Szechuan restaurant called Spicy Bampa, which is generally…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Deborah Ann “Debbie” Dingell is an American woman born on November 23rd, 1953 in Detroit, Michigan and has always had a deep passion for the government and politics. Growing up, she went to Georgetown University in Washington D.C., earning her Bachelor in science and foreign services and Masters in liberal science. Shortly later in 1981, she decided to marry the love of her life, John Dingell Jr., who at the time was a United States Representative for Michigan 16th congressional district that…