Fictional characters from New York City

geographic location that portrays relevance to Black New York is the Hendrick I. Lott House. The Hendrick I. Lott House is a Dutch-American neighborhood house that has been sustained since 1720 (Croghan, 2015). This house is interconnected with slavery that occurred within people of African decent along with serving as a safe house along the Underground Railroad. The Hendrick I. Lott House is located at 1940 East 36th Street in Brooklyn, New York. The Lott House rests in the neighborhood known…

frustration of limited help from the federal government and the new growing fear of terrorism the New York City Police Department created a number of counterterrorism units to combat terrorism affecting the city. The NYPD even mentions in their mission statement on their counterterrorism unit page “Built upon the realization that the City could not rely solely on the federal government for its defense, the Counterterrorism Bureau was created” (nyc.gov). Although the City still works and is…

Living in New York during the 1880’s through the 1890’s was a historical time. New York endured extensive transformations. In the great place of Harlem, New York, it went through the most transformation. Harlem went from Dutch to Irish to Jewish to Negros. Throughout the article “Harlem: The Culture Capital,” James Weldon discussed the transformation of Harlem, New York, the transformation of culture, African Americans in New York, the struggle for blacks in Harlem, and the Harlem Renaissance.…

` People deny racism even exists in the United States, but one does not have to look far to see blatant signs of racism, you just have to look to our prison system. The high rate of incarceration in the African American community is due to the institutional racism that still exists to this day, through the use of drugs, gangs and police discrimination the United States has created an environment for constant racial discrimination. The drug business in the United States is the biggest…

Dementia Dementia Overview Dementia is a term used to define a category of brain diseases that involve a long-term, generally fatal and gradual decrease in a person’s ability to think and function in their daily life, with memory loss being a common symptom (Alzheimer’s Assoication, 2014). The most common type of dementia is Alzheimer’s disease, which makes up around 60% of cases, with vascular dementia (25%) and Lewy body dementia (15%) also being prominent causes of symptoms (Alzheimer’s…

States long ago. Like it is stated by the book Food and Culture by Kittler and Sucher “Today there are approximately 14 million Americans of Italian descent, most of whom live in or around major cities.” (pg 136). One of those major cities with a large population of Italians is New York City. Migrating to a new country with a different culture means having to allow some changes to our own culture. The book Food and Culture states “Once in America, the children broke free of parental control due…

policing has been used in New York City from the 1990’s until present time. Broken windows theory was first described by George Kelling and James Wilson in an Atlantic Monthly article published in 1982. The success of dropping major crime rate in New York City was due to external factors not controlled under the policing method. The premature legitimization given to James Wilson and George Kelling, paved the way for the racist “ stop and frisk” procedure to occur in New York City. The broken…

lacked space, control, and resources. FEMA was forced to create a plan in place for Katrina victims as the disaster was taking place. For example, FEMA did not provide the city of New Orleans with detailed information of storm shelters so the residents of New Orleans were forced to take shelter in an unsafe hurricane environment, the New Orleans Superdome. According to the US House of Representatives, the Superdome was in a flood area that was never permitted to be a shelter location (311) and…

Long before European settlers took hold of New York City, the Lenape tribe were natives to this land. “Around 11, 000 years before the first Europeans sailed through the Narrows, the Lenape people foraged, hunted and fished the regional bounty”¹. In the early 1500’s a man named Giovanni da Verrazano was the first European explorer to ever land on New York’s soil. In the ear of 1609, a man named Henry Hudson discovered and created the first settlement while sailing up and down the Atlantic coast…

In two books, Open City and Portrait with Keys, the narrative voices differ greatly, yet both reflect similar realities about the existence of privileged individuals within cities stricken by extreme poverty, crime and sexual assault; both works demonstrate the desensitizing nature of cities on their inhabitants, and convey that the city itself allows violence and loneliness to exist as commonplace realities in an environment that simultaneously suppresses the visibility of individual action…