New York

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…

STREETS OF NEW YORK There are hundreds of mobile eateries selling gourmet global cuisine across the city of New York, alongside traditional hotdog vendors and halal carts to name few of them. According to New York Times, there are great cheap global lunch options in the corners of Manthttan, and not just in ethnic pockets like Koreatown or Little Brazil, but right outside the office building in Midtown. They are saying good bye to the Baja Fresh nacho burrito which I think is very boring food to…

“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…

I. Introduction The purpose of this paper is to perform a critical analysis of the New York State Division of Human Rights (“Division”) by identifying the Division’s performance issues and proposing a plan of action (“plan”) to solve the most critical issue. This paper is organized in three parts. The first part of this paper will provide a description of the Division’s mission, goals, objectives, organizational structure, operations, and stakeholders. Moreover it will identify and describe two…

and hold rallies and discussions, excluding the academic excellence of Hampshire College, Tarrant County College, University of Missouri, California State University, Wesleyan, Yale, and Northwestern University with credible others, a new or…

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…

The Editorial, “The Stain of Racism in New York Prisons” by The Editorial Board is about racial bias against minority inmates and also a Parole Board that is not organized. The rhetoric, connotation and bias found in this editorial make it a lot of stronger. Although the bias makes the argument slightly weaker, the use of connotation and rhetoric really strengthens the argument. The article “The Stain of Racism in New York Prisons” contains a lot of rhetoric. This article contains mostly logos…

need public service workers to survive, as it is a part of our natural habit. Wouldn’t you agree that if public service workers were allowed to strike it would affect our lives as well? According to “New York School Bus Strike” Members of the striking Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1181 in New York were not driving the buses they usually were as a strike. Students had to use alternative ways to get to school since about 152,000 students rely on buses. This did disrupt parent’s schedules as well…

19th century, the effects of this had many positive changes that affected society, but it created serious problems that required to be addressed. Through the sources: “Studies of Factory Life: Among the Women” by Lillie B. Chase Wyman and “Waifs in New York City’s Slums” by Jacob Riis, we can piece together how industrialization and urbanization affected the working class and the poor. These reformers during this era spent their time trying to expose the horrors of the working class and poor and…

On October 24th I attended the Autumn Festival at The New York Buddhist Church with my fellow classmate, Bianca Rodriguez, located at 331-332 Riverside Drive, New York, New York. The New York Buddhist Church practices the Pure Land and Zen perspective of Buddhism. This church is also supported by specifically the Japanese culture, opposed to the many other Asian cultures who share this perspective. We were at the festival from beginning to end, 12pm-4pm. The outside of the church was very simple…