Manhattan

get outside and be active. The connection to public transport, however, is not convenient and the area seems therefore rather dedicated to the community. It hosts the oldest and largest pool in New York City, and offers attractive scenic views of Manhattan and the Hell Gate Channel, other activity areas include playgrounds, a running track, tennis courts, and fitness equipment. The city parks foundation offers free Fitness classes such as yoga, tennis, and fitness walking between September and…

unique version of the city. From the moment an individual steps foot in the city, she is “building [her] private New York,” (Whitehead 1). My personal New York —the food stands, pharmacies, and avenues I would come to call home—formed when I moved to Manhattan to attend New York University. When I envisioned what it would be like to live in New York City, I always pictured living around Washington Square Park because that’s where NYU is centered. After being accepted to the university, I spent…

breathtaking places to visit. There is something for everyone to see and experience. From Thanksgiving to New Year’s Eve the city is charged with the bustle and excitement of the holiday season. The festivities extend from Rockefeller center to Manhattan to New Jersey. Which means a lot of traffic, dreary taxi rides, crowded subway cars, or a sea of tourists and locals walking briskly to reach their destination. Must – See Events The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade is a must see, if you can…

As the lunch-hour fades to afternoon, Zuccotti Park is claimed by yet another class of user: the tourist. Located around the corner from the September 11 Memorial Plaza, Zuccotti Park serves as a place of consolidation. Large, guided groups are particularly likely to use the park as a staging area. Because many of these groups are coming to or from the Memorial Plaza, Zuccotti Park can seem lopsided in the afternoon. The western side of the park hosts much activity, while the eastern edge…

places too far to walk, but on Saturday, I decided to conquer Soho on foot. The city's neighborhoods, from the Upper East Side to Chinatown to Greenwich, has a changing feel between each of them. It's almost like visiting different cities all within Manhattan. A day full of window shopping, coffee-shop hopping, and street walking. Here are just some of the highlights of my day in Soho appy Bones Coffee:…

Although his parents chose to live in a federal housing project in Lower East Side, Manhattan, Conley comments that his grandparents were not poor and that their wealth gave a security blanket for him and his sister. He conveys some theories about how and why, in 1968, his parents didn’t buy a more comfortable loft in SoHo. In chapter three…

36 Hours in Manhattan, Below 59th Street By: ROBERT LO NOV. 29, 2016 Great diverse city filled with historical backgrounds, multiple cultures, and variety of delicious foods. New York City is a great place to be around One reason tourists visit New York City is for its culture such as art galleries, museums, broadway, theaters, music, concert hall, zoos… Chinatown The largest Chinatown in the United States is located in New York City. Home to Chinese immigrants in New York, it becomes an…

urban population, which keeps increasing as a result of his projects. Rising rents drive the proletariat into the suburbs”. Comparably, Park Avenue is one of the longest perspectives in New York city, with the broadest, straightest thoroughfare in Manhattan. Park Avenue is also one of the most notoriously expensive streets in New York City, with continuously rising rents. I can only assume rising rents have pushed the working class citizens into local suburbs as Benjamin had described in Paris.…

Flushing is the neighborhood located in northern part of Queens, New York. It is not a very diverse neighborhood. Flushing is a very residential and commercial area. For this paper I will be providing information based on my observations of neighborhood of flushing. I will be visiting one of the most occupied neighborhood in flushing, which is Main Street. I look forward to learn and explore this neighborhood through my two visits at different days of the week and at different times. According…

Historic Preservation is often seen as an elite club whose membership is bought by the cities' median income. A cycle of investment and disinvestment is what generates cities today. The lower class is constantly being displaced by economic actors to serve the middle class. Some will leave this cycle having benefitted from it, able to buy the ideal single family home. Others, the renters, will have been pushed to another soon to be or already blighted area. Progress in city growth has come…