New York Islanders

The Harlem Renaissance occurred from the 1920’s to the mid 1930’s. It was a cultural, artistic, and intellectual movement that ignited a new cultural identity for the blacks. It was time for a cultural celebration. African Americans had endured centuries of slavery and were looked at as less than human. Even after slavery was abolished not much changed in that white supremacy was quickly restored to the south where most African Americans lived. Beginning in 1880 mass amounts of African Americans…

Romance with the Sea: Romantic Boating Destinations in Long Island ‘Love is in the air’ for the entire month of February, not just for Valentine’s Day. Here in New York we are blessed to be surrounded by so much water. There is a plethora of lovely romantic spots scattered around Long Island that are accessible by boat. While boating during the month of February is not on everyone’s list, it is do-able. Going out on the water during the winter is a viable idea if you happen to be used to the…

we celebrate the birthday of the attack. Morning news channels reflect on the event and reshow the first tower going down, then the second. The horror, shocking the people wrestling to fish out a camera to capture the event as it happens. The lurch in families’ stomachs that lost someone that day. This terrorism has forever changed my life and also the whole world. Every day on the anniversary, the Today Show, by the minute replays the original news broadcast of 9/11. This is very triggering…

Actually, it was shipped from France and sent to the U.S. to be built. “It commemorates the friendship between the two countries during the American Revolution” (Stokely). And since the American Revolution, it has greeted the immigrants coming to the New York Harbor, guarenting freedom and opportunity to them. The Statue of Liberty is a 151 foot-tall building, that indicates American freedom and was dedicated in 1876. In 1924, the statue became a national monument, and in 1933 it was cared for…

Grace Brewster Murray Hopper lived from 1906 to 1992. She grew up in the big city of New York, New York. She had a scientific and analytical mind from the time that she was a child. At the age of only 7, she took apart every single alarm clock in the house. Grace is best-known for her work in the technology field. She was one of the first-ever computer programmers, pioneering the field for her time. Grace was a computer scientist who graduated from Vassar and then continued on to Yale University…

many American cities, none more so than New York City. New York was unprepared for the rate of population increase and was forced to heavily utilize the tenement housing model. The poor, mainly blacks and recent immigrants, were crowded into rundown neighbourhoods where they were exploited by landlords and employers. Jacob Riis, who had been an immigrant himself a number of years earlier, attempted to give an intimate portrait of the struggle faced by New York’s poor in his book How the Other…

welfare causing Immigration attraction. Thus, the context allowed the development of new talents and developments on musical entertainment. Genres like operetta achieved an enormous popularity, this achievement provided a robust background for the formation of new musicals. New talents that had a Jewish formation emerged at this time, exponents such as the Gershwin brothers, Richard Rodgers and Jerome Kern gave new insights to the musicals. In contrast, the following decade led to a country who…

notables such as John Huston, Elizabeth Taylor, and Richard Burton began showing up. They made the area wildly popular. A highly visible meeting between U.S. President Richard Nixon and Mexican President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz in Puerto Vallarta generated news coverage which also greatly contributed to promoting the city. During the tourist season, cruise ships regularly docked in Puerto Vallarta and the port had the distinction of being the final port of call for the hit television series, The…

Through the years jazz became a widespread music genre enjoyed by whites and blacks alike, though not without injustice during the 1920s. Many jazz bands started to form in New Orleans, combining traditional jazz instruments, such as trumpets and saxophones, with traditionally upper class instruments, like piano and strings (Boundless). With this combination the bands were able to appeal to a wider range of people and begin to transcend the cultural prejudice the dominated american society of…

My vision of an absolutely perfect day takes place in New York, NY. This day would be a breezy, crisp fall day. It starts off by waking, and getting ready for the exciting day ahead of me. I would take the subway to my rehearsals for “Phantom of the Opera” on Broadway. After I get out of my rehearsal for lunch break, I would go to Tony’s Di Napoli Italian Restaurant. My meal would be composed of scrumptious mushroom ravioli for my entrée, and cherry tartufo for dessert. Subsequently, I would…