Culture of New York City

collection of the best of his writings for The New Yorker dating back to the 1940s. The four books include McSorely’s Wonderful Saloon, Old Mr. Flood, The Bottom of the Harbor, and Joe Gould’s Secret. The books are still renowned to this day for their precise and respectful observations and portraits of eccentrics on the outskirt of New York’s social scene. One of these characters was Joe Gould, a penniless and unemployable man who came to the city in 1916, and barely got by for thirty-five…

time of a spike in pop culture, to the popularity of sports, to the evolvement of gender roles and immigration, the 1920s allowed the nation to rejoice from the suffering during WWI (World War…

revolutionized the way not only cars, but every single innovation, are built, completely altering the lifestyle of urban areas. Prior to 1920, Automobiles were a delight of only the wealthy handed. A car would cost 2 years worth of wages. Due to Ford’s new method of production, mass production, prices plummeted. Once taking months to build, by 1925 Ford was producing a vehicle every ten seconds Now an automobile can be purchased with two months wages. Instead of a car being made from start to…

New York City is the home to thousands of people from all over the world. The five boroughs are culturally diverse, with communities like Flushing in Queens, predominantly Asian or Borough Park, Brooklyn, the home of the biggest Orthodox Jew population in the United States. Even in smaller communities, we see everyone sort of “just go” with their people. Perhaps it helps them be able to identify themselves in this concrete jungle or just the conformity to know the deli down the street sells your…

A tinder date you will enjoy in New York City. Okay so you swipe right on tinder, now what? New York City has endless options for going on dates. Forget about a dinner and a movie, leave that for people in small towns. Make it a date you will remember. Dates should be fun while seeing if you have a connection. So why not do something different. Laughing in midtown west Magnet theater in manhattan is an improv comedy theater and school. It os a nice small intimate theater. They have drop-in…

as though the entirety of New York is devoid of emotion and its inhabitants will only work for the sake of money in his Here is New York. He expresses this through the tone in which he describes New Yorkers. However, White betrays this depiction by subtly introducing a human emotion that has the potential to bud and spread through New York and make it feel more like the New York that we are used to. White shows his respect for New York by showing the ability of the city to change no matter how…

I am an immigrant, which sometimes I view as a privilege and other times not so much. It felt wonderful when my relatives were kind to my family when we got our visas to come to the United States. I was born in Bangladesh in a small village in my tiny house. Not the typical story you hear from many of my peers. My birth is very important to me, not because I ever celebrated it. It wasn’t even until I came to the United States that I realized that people actually celebrate their birthdays, but I…

As one of the biggest cities in the United States, Chicago stretches two hundred and thirty seven miles through the state of Illinois. Chicago has roughly two million people living in one city which is one of the many reasons it is unique. That is more people than the whole state of Iowa. The town of Chicago is one unique city compared to small town Fort Madison with the super structures over towering the city, the cultural differences in the food variety there, and ethnically diverse music are…

CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF 9/11 On September 11 2001, 19 men linked with the terrorist group Al-Qaeda hijacked four planes and crashed them into important targets in the United States. The planes hit the World Trade Center in New York City, the Pentagon outside Washington D.C and a field in Pennsylvania. The attacks, nicknamed 9/11, claimed thousands of human lives and caused major destruction. In the aftermath of the attacks, the U.S initiated several anti-terror measures to prevent something like…

Hip-Hop has Changed the World “Music can change the world because it can change people.” (Bono) Hip-hop first started in the 1970s in the neighborhoods of the New York City Bronx. It immediately became a huge movement in African American culture and soon affected people from all over the world. It spread from one city to many in a matter of months, from movies to music videos, hip-hop was everywhere. It was a statement, a voice for African Americans to speak up against civil rights. Hip-hop…