Neighborhoods in the Bronx

anything outside of the Bronx for a long time, but my mother refused to allow the chains to be held. Instead she slowly introduced me to the light after noticing I was staying in the dark. Whether it had been skipping classes or not doing homework, I was staying in the dark. My mother one day decided that she would not have a son that stayed in the dark. She wanted me to be the first in our family to make it to college. My mother would drive me around the richest neighborhood and describe to me…

She is from the Belmont neighborhood of the Bronx where the median income is a little less than $19,000. She also comes from a single parent home. I am from Hamilton Heights, a section in Harlem known for its middle class residents. For two years, we were both placed in a bridge class,…

within ghettos. In “Worker City, Company Town” written by Daniel Walkowitz notes that, “the obliteration of over 60,000 homes and city jobs which displaced 60,000 employees greatly affected the African & African Diasporic communities of the South Bronx. With issues with housing, public services, the shrinking job opportunity due to the industrializing city, caused the Artist such as Dj Herc who learned specific trades and vocational skills to develop the means for artistic defiance and ingenuity…

Street Gangs: The Great Migration Gangs have increasingly become a serious problem over the past few decades. A report from the FBI’s 2011 National Gang threat assessment states that there are 1.4 million active gang members comprising of more than 33,000 gangs in the United States (MacBradaign, 2013). Many believe that the first street gangs started with the formation of the Crips and the Bloods between 1971-1972, but the first active street gangs in western civilization were reported by Pike…

When it comes to living a healthy lifestyle, it is a personal choice. When one says, “I do not have the money to eat healthily”, that is an excuse to eat unhealthily. There are many opportunities to buy healthy food for a discounted or reduced price at numerous stores and farmer’s markets. There are people who work numerous jobs and have difficulties getting to the store, but it is all about time management and perseverance to live a healthy lifestyle. Setting plans and goals, allowing…

Of course, towards the mid-1980s the new school or the golden age of Hip hop was brought into the light. At the time when Hip hop was developing in the 70s almost every graffiti artist was either in a gang or group and they were trying to mark their territory or promote their group. Graffiti is a certain style of art that was painted with spray paint and is illegal in most areas because it is vandalizing private property. There was different forms of graffiti one was a tag. According to Michael…

people that can do something about this just let it pass like it’s not important. There are many cons to the racial profiling for example: racism, unethical, racial tension, statistically. These cons cause many problems in our society around any neighborhood. Then we have racial profiling by law enforcement officers , or “using race as a factor in conducting stop, searches, and other investigative produces”( Bush 2001). This major problem in the united states and possible the whole world has…

QUESTIONS: HOW DOES “STOP AND FRISK” AFFECT THE EXPERIENCE OF PEOPLE LIVING IN HIGH IMPACT COMMUNITIES? Police officers play a central role in the law enforcement system. They monitor criminal activity, take part in community patrols, respond to emergency calls, issue tickets, make arrests, investigate crimes and testify in court as needed. A police officer's first order of business is to serve and protect. In fact, the phrase "serve and protect" is common in the credo of many law enforcement…

“Urban music that grew out of the hip-hop movement of the South Bronx, New York, in the 1970s. It blends rhythmic instrumental tracks created by a disc jockey, with the spoken, rhyming lyrics of an MC.” (Unknown,…

He pushed forward the idea of a Neighborhood NYC where there would be a lot of racial integration and promoted race relations. One way he went about accomplishing racial integration was by announcing 12 new public housing locations, none of which were in Manhattan. He wanted to move African Americans, especially those from the lower class into middle class white neighborhoods. This led to many white residents fleeing the city and to the suburbs as they…