Culture of New York City

the Children in New York Class and I can definitely say that I have learn a lot about my neighborhood that I didn’t have no knowledge about. The fact that Brownsville is known as one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in Brooklyn and I have been living here for so many years and wasn’t aware of that. My perspective sure did change, due to the fact that there is such a high percentage of 23.4% of people living under the poverty line which is almost the same as the while New York city at 24%.…

moving to America brought hope for a new life and a brighter future, many struggle to adjust and adapt to the ways of an American lifestyle. Immigrating does not have to be the prime reason people have trouble identifying themselves with a certain group. Many people can feel just as isolated, or even more so, in their own homeland. Finding a place you can call your own, feeling like you belong to something, that’s what everyone wants, right? Whether in a new country, or the country you’ve…

During the end of my senior year in High School, an opportunity arose to travel to New York City, with my friend Zach. My school’s basketball team was participating in a National tournament at Yeshiva University, where my friend Zach’s brother had an apartment nearby in Washington Heights. Hearing about the safety issues in the Heights, my parents didn’t want me roaming around the city without any adult supervision. With the backing of my Uncle Richard, who live in the Upper East Side, I began…

Grace Brewster Murray Hopper lived from 1906 to 1992. She grew up in the big city of New York, New York. She had a scientific and analytical mind from the time that she was a child. At the age of only 7, she took apart every single alarm clock in the house. Grace is best-known for her work in the technology field. She was one of the first-ever computer programmers, pioneering the field for her time. Grace was a computer scientist who graduated from Vassar and then continued on to Yale University…

Gentrification is when the high and middle class population come into a poor neighborhoods and reclaim them. During this process an abundance of homes are rebuilt and the poorer class are being replace. Gentrification has extremely negative effects on inner city communities that are generally populated by African Americans. These communities suffer from the effects of gentrification for years by losing their homes and businesses to a higher class of people. Many areas that have and are being…

time to listen to music and not worry about anything. Music became a big hit at home. The main focus of the time was to have fun and have a care free time. Culture, musical styles and entertainment all dramatically changed during the 1920s. People began to change the way they lived their lives in the twenties. More families lived in the cities than on farms in rural areas. The average income for an American family that lived in urban areas nearly doubled in the last five years (The Roaring…

Koolhaas: Manhattanism vs Atlanta Questions: In what way do contradictions of cities like Atlanta and Manhattan enhance our experience of the city? How does the morphology of a grid layout impact the movement of people, and how does that impact the experience of the urbanism? In Rem Koolhaas’ Delirious New York, he engages the readers through his review and criticism of modern urbanism and architecture. He explores the city of Manhattan as an urban experiment and a field for man made…

I had a wonderful time in New York; it was fun from the beginning to the end. I first got ready to pack my clothes and everything that was need for the trip. I was so excited for this, I waited for this a long time and I was ready to go and have fun. We drove to the airport than we parked are car, than I grabbed two bags than my brother grabbed two and my sister grabbed two as well. Than we took a shuttle to the airport, finally there, the check-in line was long there were a lot of people. I was…

places in all of America. It can accommodate throngs of people of all types of ethnic backgrounds. There is no surprise why Times Square is nicknamed The Crossroad of the World. It is almost impossible to capture the atmosphere of such an eclectic city into a single word, phrase, or picture. Yet, artist Gregory Christie captures such tone like no other. Christie’s picture “The Subway Soiree” is a cultural reflection on the way music unites people of different races. Music is a universal…

New Jersey is the greatest state in America. This has nothing to do with the fact that I have lived in New Jersey my whole life; I make this claim strictly with objectivity and fact based arguments. The diverse, and densely populated state is home to a bevy of attractive and titillating features. Historically, culturally, scenically, New Jersey is without equal. Conventional wisdom of New Jersey’s ails are not grounded in reality. New Jersey is called “The Garden State” for a reason, as despite…