New York City

The Harlem and the Watts Riot ended after days of conflict between the police force and the people. In some instances, federal and state troops were sent in to assist the police force. In Watts, thousands of troops were stationed around the city to protect the stores that had been looted, to protect the police and firefighters fighting the burning buildings, and to end the riot. In the end, forty-three were dead, over one thousand injured, and seven thousand arrested. In Harlem, there were…

Grand Central Terminal is not only iconic structure in the middle of New York City, but is still a working train stain to help people on their daily commute to places inside the immediate tri-state area and the east coast. Grand Central has been open and running for a little over a hundred years, the complete building was designed by an architect named Whitney Warren, who wanted to bring his personal Parisian feeling to the city with his Beaux-Arts style. While all the inner workings of…

gentrification can have negative and positive affects on a neighborhood, it’s important to ask who are the new residents moving into these neighborhoods, but more importantly how the people who remain in the neighborhood are affect by the change brought…

Renaissance, which Roark cannot stand, but the public adores. Many say that despite the fact that The Fountainhead was set in New York City, Chicago was the basis for the novel, as its architectural history is as unique, various, and beautiful as they come. Around the same time period of the competition in the book, the Chicago Tribune sponsored a large campaign to build a new headquarters, which was…

Tennes who changed the history of Chicago. But it was Al Capone who made Chicago one of the most ruthless and crime ridden towns in the nation (Lyman & Potter, 2015 p. 88). Capone started off in New York City, but after he was suspected of committing two murders, he had two options; to either leave New York or risk being killed. When Al Capone first moved to Chicago, he worked for crime boss “Big Jim” Colosimo. Although this didn’t last long, as Colosimo was killed because he saw the…

Eleanor Roosevelt was born on October 11, 1884 in New York City. When Eleanor was 8 years old, her mother died of diphtheria; her father died from a fall two years later. In 1905, Eleanor Roosevelt married future President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR). Together they had four sons and one daughter. When FDR was diagnosed with polio, Eleanor did a lot for him, because of this, she became more involved in politics and making an impact. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt was noteworthy in history…

and Korea. In 1953 he moved to New York City and had an art…

Obama’s dress and for judging the television show Project Runaway. Kors was born August of 1959 in New York and grew up into the model industry and several national campaigns for products such as toilet paper and Lucky Charms cereal. His name was changed at the tender age of five after his mother remarried a business man by the name of Bill Kors. Michael mom also gave him the chose to choose his new first name on top of the change of a last name. At such a young age Kors was addicted to the…

(Brooklyn Heights, Sunset Park, Gowanus, Williamsburg etc) were already developed. In addition, there were great advancements in the city's public transportation sector. The Brooklyn Bridge was opened and train and trolley lines moved people all over the city. However,…

became governor of New York in 1899, fought in the Spanish-American war in 1898, and became president after William McKinley died in 1901. He ordered the construction of the Panama Canal, created the forest service and the national park service. He also received the Nobel Peace Prize for mediating the Russo-Japanese War. Theodore Roosevelt was born into a wealthy New York family; his father…