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century. In 1801, the settlers founded a town that they named Burrville in honor of the country's new vice-president, Aaron Burr. However, Burr fell into disgrace, resulting in the town being renamed in 1809; historians believe that the new name was to honor George Clinton, the vice-president who followed Burr, but the name could conceivably honored DeWitt Clinton, George's nephew and the mayor of New York City at the time. Regardless of how the name was chosen, life in Clinton was not without…

New York City's Graveyard Shift is an essay about everyday people having night jobs in New York City. The essay talks about some of the people’s experience and thoughts about their night jobs. It is the norm to have a 9 to 5 job in the city, coming home to having the rest of the day to yourself, or going home to cook dinner for your family. For the rest of the city, people are just getting up to prepare themselves for night of labor. My favorite photo from the essay has to be of Villavicencio a…

Driving west from New York City is a surreal experience. I went from the busy streets of Brooklyn to skyscrapers in Manhattan, to the suburbs of the outlying towns over the bridges. Around an hour into the trip, the road was submerged in a forest with hardly a house visible from the highway. Further down, was mountain chains, interspersed with agricultural lots and pastures. The climate was snowy in the winter by Lake Ontario, but some New Yorkers go there during the summer, if they can’t afford…

Manhattan, this neighborhood also includes places of interest such as Hotel Chelsea, the Highline, Chelsea Market, the Hudson River Park and, most notably, the commercial art galleries. These galleries are what causes Chelsea to be such a vast part of New York’s art scene. This neighborhood’s history began in 1750, when a British Major, named Thomas Clarke, bought 90 acres of land and naming his land after the manor of Chelsea in London. Chelsea has had countless owners and has been utilized for…

Flushing is the neighborhood located in northern part of Queens, New York. It is not a very diverse neighborhood. Flushing is a very residential and commercial area. For this paper I will be providing information based on my observations of neighborhood of flushing. I will be visiting one of the most occupied neighborhood in flushing, which is Main Street. I look forward to learn and explore this neighborhood through my two visits at different days of the week and at different times. According…

Michael Kors was born on August 9, 1959, in Long Island, New York. Before Michael knew he wanted to be a fashion designer, his dream was to be an actor, especially since he stated that he loved music, movies, and the theater. When he was pursuing his acting career he took acting lessons in Manhattan for some time. However, he gave up acting at the age of 14 when he realized it just wasn’t for him. He moved to New York City for school. He attended the Fashion Institute of Technology but then…

NEW YORK There are allegations of corruption against state Sen. Malcom A. Smith and New York City Council member Dan Halloran astounded the state. (huffingtonpost, 2014) New York City has a dirty side in politics with the reformers there is chance for change with the charges of bribery, wire fraud, and extortion. Larry Norden said “In some sense, we are very lucky,” deputy director of the non-partisan public policy and law institute Brennan Center for Justice. “We have an opportunity in New York…

In the early 1940's as stated in the New York Times, the Hudson River became contaminated with Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB), that flowed from two General Electric factories that were later banned in 1977, as a health threat to people and wildlife. In high doses, they have been shown to cause cancer in animals and are listed by federal agencies as a probable human carcinogen. As New York City grew along the Hudson river, the sewage discharged increased. In 1965, NYS voters passed a Pure…

William Albert Allard is photographer of people. Allard was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1937, and studied photography at the University of Minnesota and the Minneapolis School of Fine Arts. He started his photography career as a National Geographic photo intern in 1964. He has contributed to 42 articles in the magazine, not only as a photographer but as a writer. Allard likes to photograph people in remote locations and locations where people would never see other than through…

its internal secrets. This pathos appeal states his grounds and his background experience through his love to this city. Later, Whitehead states “Thousands of people pass that storefront every day, each one haunting the streets of his or her own New York, not one of them seeing the same thing.” This idea is compared to the idea in the other passage of “Manhattan”, where people see what they see without questioning these details and exposing the internal view of the object. As a result, this…