Midtown Manhattan

Harn Museum Visit On April 1, 2017, I visited the Harn Museum located at the University of Florida in Gainesville, FL. This was my first time visiting the Harn Museum. I was impressed at how big it was and how many different rooms there were. I spent about 2 hours there looking at the art pieces and reading the plaques associated with them. It was very informative about the artists and gave some background on them. One of the first areas I walked through there was an artist named Yvonne…

at a young age and growing up he was not really interested in art.More so he was involved in science and comic books. It was not till he hit his teen years is when he found his love for art. He attended high school at Franklin school for boys in Manhattan and graduated from there in 1940. While he was attended his high school classes he also took a watercolor class at Parsons school of design in 1937. Later he would take another art class at the Art students League in 1940. These two classes…

When I was a toddler, flashing lights would always catch my attention. For entertainment, my parents would watch films with settings in populous cities, but I only had eyes for New York. As a four-year-old donning an atrocious bowl cut, I knew that my heart belonged to the Big Apple. As I visited campus for the first time last summer, I was struck by the beauty and enormity of it all. It was the Butler Library that did it—the Butler Library, with its ornamental chandeliers and floor to ceiling…

Some people could have memories to share them with this city. Others could sense that this city is their place to gather with their lovers and friends. Manhattan, which is known one of the most attractive cities in the world, astonishes people in many ways. These astonishments show contradictions that make up Manhattan as it is now. Manhattan is expressed in this excerpt not through external views, but from internal views. The author, John Berger, states “There are not symbolic details here.…

The Bloor-Yonge subway station the busiest station in the TTC with hundreds of thousands of people going through it every day. These huge crowds create chaos within the station during rush hours of the weekdays, making the average commuter frustrated and annoyed. While these times are testing of one's patience, the subway would not be the same without this epicenter of Toronto's commuters. The beginning of the day for most commuters on the Bloor-Yonge is remarkably difficult, with the walk…

Songwriter and performer Lin-Manuel Miranda was born in January of 1980 in New York City. He grew up in the small Inwood neighborhood of Washington Heights in Manhattan with his mother, father, and sister. He developed a love for music and performing at a young age, acquiring roles in many high school productions and being surrounded by a family with the same musical interests (Haynes, 2017). Miranda is famously known for writing the two hit Broadway shows, In The Heights and Hamilton: An…

Being in New York was very different from Los Angeles because the tempo in California is more relaxed. In New York everything is fast paced they use every method of tranportation, walking is the main way to get around. Los Angeles is slower paced and people here get aound by car. New York has so much traffic on and off the streets. Though, New York City is probably my favorite place so far, just last year I had the opportunity to go, I fell in love instantly. The streets teemed with people and…

New York can be an amazing state to adopt a pet in. However, bear in mind the temperatures of different areas of the state before deciding on the animal you wish to keep as a pet. Many places enjoy mild temperatures during the spring, summer and fall months, with colder weather occurring in the winter. However, upstate New York routinely deals with chilling temperatures and vast amounts of snowfall. If you live in the city, chances are a small dog or cat would make the ideal pet. On a farm…

drizzling rain tapping on my window. To my surprise we were still going to have class, but I didn’t mind since Gotham was the only class I looked forward to all week. I got used to the feeling of waking up, getting coffee, and strolling all throughout Manhattan. As we walked out of Penn Station I knew summer was officially coming to an end because I could feel the cold air hitting my face. We took the train and headed to the Lower East Side, which is known to be fairly close to China Town and…

Times Square is a cultural playground for people all over the world. It is one of the most culturally exquisite 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…