Mayor of New York City

Every president needs a cabinet to meet with on a regular basis to report departments concerns and discuss issues of importance. A presidential cabinet is a group of officers of the executive branch of the federal government. And Donald Trump is planning to stock his Cabinet with a group of ex-presidential candidates and businesspeople who are personally loyal to him. Trumps possible cabinet member appointments are looking old, white, and male. Many of which are qualified to fill their roles in…

The Cost of 'Sheltering' The Homeless May Be Too High A question I hear a lot when I’m talking about homelessness in New York, is: “why don’t the homeless just stay in shelters?” It is more complex than many New Yorkers imagine–both the problems and the purported solutions. For me, the more important question is: ‘why shelters at all?’ As someone who has spent a lot of time with the homeless–as a volunteer EMT and as someone who lived on the streets for 3 nights–I know firsthand how we have…

The new plans for housing were to be called “Elysian Park Heights” according to Nathan Masters in the article “Chavez Ravine: A Los Angeles Story”. The Ravine residents were told that they would get first choice when the new housing was made. Letters to the Chavez Ravine residents were sent out to notify them that they had to sell their homes to make way for low…

New York’s Central Park has always been known for the uniquely beautiful garden in the middle of the city to escape from the loud and busy city streets. Horse carriages have been a traditional way of transportation for people to get around the city or central park and are ranked 5th out of 155 top activities to do in New York City. However, Bill Blasio, mayor of New York City, pledged that one of his first acts would be to ban horse carriages considering them to be abusive and inhuman to the…

residents living in a community built around industry and considered a rawer area of the city. As the hospital aged, its facilities declined and the level of care which could be provided for patients degraded to the point that the hospital was closed as the Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center assumed and could better fulfill the responsibilities to the community. The opening of the new center incentivized the city to close Greenpoint, rather than restore it from it deterioration. Since…

and Coles, 1996) with remarkable reductions in crime in New York City. When New York City’s police commissioner was William Bratton and the mayor was Rudolph Giuliani, the police in NYC practiced such relentless social control that they helped to change community norms (Delisi, 2003). Skogan (1990) points out that zero-tolerance policies related to social disorder, that were implemented in NYC, resulted in a dramatically safer and cleaner city. Wilson, himself, said in an interview that, “A lot…

New York was discovered by Giovanni da Verrazzano, an italian explorer who serivced the French crown, in 1524. Even though the French discovered New York they did not purchase the land, the Dutch claimed the land in 1609. The new colony was important in the fur trade and later became an agricultural resource. The Dutch bought Manhattan from the Native Americans in 1626. England renamed the colony New York, after the Duke of York (later James II and VII) in 1664. New York was widely known as…

Hammond and Josh David visionary idea transformed the creation of an unused, abandoned railway line to a spectacular greenery park in the sky -the New York’s High Line. Hammond and David were two guys from the neighborhood who decided that tearing down the railway line was not a good idea, while other people in the community, including property owners and the Mayor Giuliani wanted the unused railway demolish. With the help of photographer Joel Sternfeld’s photographs, which he had captured the…

Any one landing in New York City from the LaGuardia Airport, is going to find themselves at East Elmhurst. They will be greeted by single family homes who front lawns are decorated with green grass patches, it is quite the opposite image one would expect to see when landing in New York City. They might be taken aback when they realize they are seeing the Manhattan skyline at a distance from where they are standing, in East Elmhurst. While the skyline views are breathtaking, so is the…

Mario Cuomo Mario Cuomo served as the New York Secretary of State from 1975 to 1978, as Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1979 to 1982 and as the fifty-second Governor of New York for three terms, from 1983 to 1994. Cuomo was known for his liberal views and riveting public speeches, particularly his keynote speech at the 1984 Democratic National Convention in San Francisco, California, where he attacked President Ronald Reagan‘s record, saying: “There is despair, Mr. President, in the faces…