People from New York City

According to data from the American FactFinder, the total number of housing units in New York City is estimated to be close to 3.5 million and 42%, almost half of these residential units, are located in buildings that were built in 1939 or earlier. Furthermore, more than half of the pre-1940 historic buildings are one or two family type houses. The Greening NYC’s historic buildings manual by the Municipal Art Society of New York (MAS) stated in their report that solid masonry walls such as…

City meals on wheels is a Non- profit organization based in New York city. This Non-profit raises private funds to ensure no homebound elderly New Yorker goes without food. City meals on wheels is founded by Gael Greene (An American restaurant critic, author and novelist), and James beard (An American chef, cookbook author, teacher, columnist, and television personality). In 1981, after reading a newspaper article about homebound elderly New Yorkers who had nothing to eat on weekends and…

Ariela Sanabria Stella and Charles Guttman Community College Introduction to Urban Community Health A Public Health Recommendation Report Professor Wilson Dec 4, 2014 The Problem: The Bronx community in New York City is what I call home. Just like any home, it’s not perfect and has it’s faults, one of them being high rates of obesity. The community provides a variety of places for it’s inhabitants to obtain food, for example supermarkets, fast food restaurants, and even vegetable stands.…

attacks, permanently and dramatically changed America and its people. The twin towers were completed in 1972 and were iconic…

actually made it?’’ That’s what I asked my sister when we crossed the Brooklyn Bridge in our car. The lights, the people, the buildings, all so intriguing. We even saw the Statue of Liberty our first 5 minutes in the city. I couldn't help but to stick my head out of the window and breathe in that New York air, which was not a very good idea because there was trash a couple feet away from the car. This experience was just the encouragement I needed to chase after my dreams, for I was beginning to…

1920, a bomb exploded along Wall Street, executing 38 individuals and left many harmed. The Wall Street Bombing was the most bad fear in the United States until the Oklahoma City assault in 1995 and the 9/11 assaults on the World Trade Center. The bomb's objective was to be the House of Morgan, which was a block over the road from where the explosive had been left out. The Wall Street Bombing is a case of treachery for the Americans that died and injured because of the level of the atrocity and…

New Haven, a city in Connecticut, is notable for undergoing major changes during the city’s existence. It doesn’t offer images glamorous and lavish lifestyle like major US cities, or the dream of someone coming into this city and having it change their entire life. Nonetheless, it offers the idea of the American Dream, New Haven is a city where one can own a house a among the most modern and sophisticated infrastructures. Its history of development and redevelopment is an uncommon story,…

was filled with the melody of car horns, voices and footsteps. Authentic New York style pizza was something I had always wanted to try. Across from Penn Station was this little, uncrowded restaurant that served some very addicting garlic knots. It was impossible to just eat one. The pizza comes in large, thin slices which had just the right amounts of sauce and cheese. It was a perfect meal to welcome me to the city. From the restaurant, my family and I took cabs to the American Museum of…

I had been dreaming of this moment nearly my entire life. Movies, T.V., even books, displayed this astounding city I ventured in, almost as if it were a sacred land. Being raised in the Deep South with nothing but wilderness, rusty pick-up trucks, and small, run-down towns, convinced me that a city as enchanting as Manhattan could possibly exist. Yet, here I am in Newark, New Jersey, boarding a train to Grand Central Station, about to meet my future stepmom 's sister, Bekah. I had been on an…

another, saying that if someone is not careful, the Headless Horseman will come for them. However, many Americans do not realize that this legend originated from a story that appears in Washington Irving’s book, The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Washington Irving was born to a Scottish immigrant family on April 3, 1783, in New York City. Later that year, The Treaty of Paris was signed,…