City College of New York

Austin Briffa The Problem of Gentrification: A Policy Brief It is with great concern and urgency that I address the issue of gentrification to you and your cabinet. According to the New York Department of City Planning, your city is projected to grow from its current 8.55 million person-population to 9.03 million in 2040, an increase of about 8.9%. All five boroughs are experiencing varying levels of growth, and although these percentages are lower than in the past, the population will still…

War to vault his way into a prominent figure in American history. While at Kings College on July 6th, 1774 Hamilton gave an impressive speech to a mass meeting, attacking British policies. Also during college, he became a part of the patriot volunteer band known as the “Corsicans” - they drilled every morning before classes. On March 14th, 1776, he was commissioned captain of a company of artillery set by the New York Provincial Congress. While at White Plains in October of 1776, his battery…

Theodore Roosevelt Sr. were his parents. Theodore Roosevelt was born in New York City. When Theodore was little everyone called him Teedie which was his nickname. He was homeschooled because of his sickness and asthma. His family had owned a successful plate-glass import business. When he was little he always wanted to be an animal nurse, but when he became older he did what his father did, which was weightlifting. The college he went to was Harvard…

a spirited story about a poor girl out of place in an expensive toy store (F.A.O Schwartz); it is a social commentary. The descriptions of Harlem and the characters in the story are very realistic and vivid. The reader can imagine the smell of the city air, hear the traffic, and picture the characters "The Lesson" is a story about one African-American girl 's struggle with her growing awareness of class inequality. There are three main themes readily discernible in “The Lesson” they are Poverty…

My post-college activities are detailed as follows. I. August 2010 – September 2011, professional theatre artist and actor Upon graduating from college in August 2010, I worked as a professional actor, director, and playwright in New York City. During this time, I focused on creating art that addressed various social justice issues; for instance, I wrote and produced three independent short films on the ways in which women and the LGBTQ community are uniquely affected by poverty in New York. I…

the first half of Clark's career from the late 1940s to the mid-1960s. In 1942 he was appointed an instructor of psychology at City College, City University of New York, and the first full-time black faculty member of that institution. He continued at City College, City University of New York until his retirement in 1975. Files for City College, City University of New York include material relating to his courses, riots in Harlem in 1943, and students complaints of racial discrimination. Also in…

Over the previous decades, New York City was able to reform itself into the one of the most populated areas in the United States today. This city is known to embrace diversity for our population, which attracts the attention of immigrants who desired new opportunities and fortunes. Since the passing of the Immigration and Nationality Amendments of 1965, New York City experienced a wave of immigrants. New York City is currently the home to millions of people who came from different countries…

was all packed up, I’ve got a ticket to another world. Even though I knew I had piles upon piles of college algebra homework to do before sunday at midnight, I could not resist my wanderlust to go away for the weekend. The ticket to board flight 457 to New York made my heart skip a beat every thought or sight I had of it. I was eager to leave my small, one red light town for the extravagant City of Lights. As I boarded the gargantuan American Airlines plane with a streak of red down the sides,…

She did so in New York, naming it the Women’s Medical College of New York Infirmary. This college held a very competitive, yet very comprehensive and well-structured program. Many women that attended the Women’s Medical College of New York Infirmary were very successful in completion. One woman that stood out most was Sophia Jex-Blake because she established her own Women’s Medical College in London. Not very long after Elizabeth established her own Women’s Medical College, she returned to…

When I began reading Jonathan Kozol’s Amazing Grace (1995), I was struck by a quotation early on that described the South Bronx area of New York City he would further explore throughout the book: The houses in which these children live, two thirds of which are owned by the City of New York, are often as squalid as the houses of the poorest children I have visited in rural Mississippi, but there is none of the greenness and the healing sweetness of the Mississippi countryside outside their…