People from New York City

In the 1990s then mayor of New York City Rudy Giuliani pushed the broken windows theory of crime control and made changes to the police departments accordingly. However, David Dinkin, who was mayor before Giuliani, was truly the one who began this method of policing. He hired 8,000 new officers and a new police commissioner. (Business Insider) While it is true that New York’s crime rates have dropped in the past few decades, the reasons behind this are unclear. Broken windows methods also raise…

FUNDING NEW YORK CITY PUBLIC HOUSING: ANALYZING PUBLIC AND PRIVATE OPTIONS New York City Public Housing is the biggest public housing program in the whole of North America. This claim presupposes a huge budget for the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), the agency that administers the public housing program. It is imperative to get a fair background about NYCHA so that one can fully appreciate the scope of its budget. NYCHA was established in 1934 to provide housing to the City’s low…

is one of the three library systems operating in New York City. The library has 62 locations all across Queens. Volunteering at the library for the past two summers has allowed me to further understand how Queens Library operates. I have always been curious about how the library system is able to be interconnected with all 62 branches. As a kid, I always wondered how they were able to keep track of everything. I could return and borrow books from any branch used to amaze me. Historically, Queens…

The Ashcan artists were mainly in New York and made “art rooted in the defining social trends of their time and created a record of a gregarious, contradictory and hybrid moment in the history of urban life.” (Snyder 279) Their subject was “New York City in the years 1897 to 1917, when the metropolis became an emblem of modernity.” (Snyder 279) They intensively concentrated more on immigration than on “the emerging towers of the Manhattan skyline.” (Snyder 279) “Unlike their contemporaries who…

theater, our first date was in Central Park, a free public park space in New York City. For fun we always looked online for free events, like free movies showing on public parks or free street concerts and if we did not find any events, we just went to the library and spent time together. Although we liked free stuff, sometimes we go to different places where we spent money. Specially when we went to night clubs or if a new movie came out and we wanted to watch it, then we would go to the movie…

Everyday people travel, whether it’s for business, pleasure, or to move permanently. Los Angeles is a place of interest for many to travel to. Some visit temporarily and some move here with the hopes and dreams of a better life. Being the second largest city in the United States, Los Angeles has a huge draw. According to the 2015 census report L.A. has a population of 3,971,896, with 68% being minorities. A city with such large interest has to have one of the largest international airports. We…

Caribbean islanders went to New York City and by 1960 the number of Puerto Ricans and people from the Caribbean totaled about 1.5 million due to the level of Caribbean immigration picked up after the United States entered World War II in 1941. Almost 50,000 Caribbean’s both black and white settled in the country between 1941 and 1950. They took advantage of the rapidly expanding war economy and postwar economic growth. Beginning in 1943, thousands of migrant workers were brought from the region…

Kaleabe Abera Mr. Perez US History March 7, 2017 On Saturday, March 25, 1911, a fire erupted in a 10 story factory building. The top floors of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company building, in New York city, caught fire killing 146 of the 500 workers. The dead consisted of mainly of young women. The doors for the fire escape were locked and the firefighters ladders couldn’t reach to top floors. Many of the workers prefered to jump to their deaths rather than suffocating. The International Ladies’…

On September 11, 2001, a day many people will never forget, Osama bin Laden, with al Qaeda, took action on his hate towards American soldiers, the American government, and American citizens that has changed this country in 102 minutes. It all began as four separate flights took off. At 7:59 a.m. American Airlines Flight 11, a Boeing 767 takes off from Boston’s Logan International Airport with ninety-two people on board heading toward Los Angeles. Then, just twenty minutes later at 8:19 am flight…

between the valley of ashes and New York City shows that the endless drive for wealth can lead to the distortion of society. The valley of ashes represents absolute poverty and hopelessness. It is a desolate place where, "Ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens"(23). Everything about it is miserable and grey. In contrast, the city is full of promise of wealth and a hope for a better life. “The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first…