New York City

In the 1880’s, trains were the most known transportation in New York City. The first type of trains were horse drawn carts. Another name for it is horsecars. Horse cars are operated by a horse pulling a cart on a railroad. This invention however backfired. The horses were too slow and could give bad disease. So the next idea were elevated trains, known as “el.” The els were a cable powered car that used rail to move. This invention was a success, we even still use them today. The latest…

Clinton v. City of New York and INS v. Chadha, deal with the constitutional reality of the line item veto and legislative veto. Some argue these are constitutional, due to the complexities within each branch and the public's role in electing these. I disagree and support the rulings the Supreme Court made in maintaining the separation of power created by our framers, ensuring the balance of power among branches essential to American democracy. Clinton v. City of New York Clinton v. City of New…

1. What do you think New York City officials hoped would happen when they first imposed rent controls? New York City officials hoped that by conducing the first imposed rent controls in order to prevent higher rent on housing. New York City began rent control after World War 1. The reason for this rent control was to keep rents from rising from the equilibrium levels since the quantity demanded at the ceiling at that time, exceeded the quantity supplied. 2. Why did real estate developers…

“I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness,” ~ Aldo Leopold Spending the first fifteen years of my life back and forth between New York City and Long Island, I got to live in both, a cement jungle and a green paradise. There were differences between my suburban home and city one, but not as vast as the differences I found during/on my annual trips to my parents’ homeland, India. My family and I would drink water straight from the tap without a single worry back in the States…

My childhood in New York City was very difficult for me. I grow up in a predominantly Hispanic Dominican decent neighborhood in the upper Manhattan area called Washington Heights. Washington Heights in the early 1990’s was the heart of the drug trade. At one point in the 1990’s it was considered one of the worst neighborhoods to raise a child. I remember in the news, the news anchor reported that New York City was recognized as the crime capital in the 1950's through the early 1990's. I…

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…

New York City has a culture that many cannot resist. Whether the city’s used in entertainment and the media, or just talked about, many people are fascinated with the New York lifestyle, culture and diversity. In a poem for The New York, Terrance Hayes shows the diversity on a single roof-top bar in Chinatown. He writes about the different types of people around him and the possibilities. His emphasize on this idea is clear when he writes “On a Chinatown rooftop in New York anything can happen”…

As someone who grew up in a city surrounded by the Andes mountains, the idea of visiting the city of New York became a dream to fulfill. From the beginning I was impressed by Manhattan’s skyscrapers and the view of the skyline from far away. Famous attractions like Times Square, Central Park, the Empire State Building, and the Brooklyn Bridge instantly became places that I wanted to visit one day. Two years ago I was finally able to visit New York City and I was not disappointed. Besides the key…

year old girl who lives in a small town called Miniville. My family and I are going to be moving to New York city in two days. I’m not sure if I’m ready for it. I’m going to miss this place with my friends that I’ve got to know so well throughout my life. The reason we are moving is because my dad got a promotion for a new job there. I’ve heard some things about New York. I’ve heard about how big the city is, the people, and the food. The one thing I haven’t heard about is the schools but, I…

Glaser created this artwork in 1977, and was first used in 1977 to promote the city and state. It was one of the most widely disturbed and imitated image in the world. New York was having a hard time with negative publicity at the time. New York had a slogan (I Love New York), that had been on TV commercials and was even a jingle but yet they still were missing a logo. Glaser was recruited by the Department of Economic Development to meet with Well Rich Greene about logo options. In that…