People from New York City

Splash! I jumped into each puddle making a new sound with every step. It was raining that achingly long day and instead of being with my friends on a saturday night, I had to deliver 103 pizzas around my home town. Instead of having fun hanging out with my friends I was lugging around heavy pizzas. Just so instead of going on my first big trip to New York City by myself, I get to go with my father. My boring, crabby, old father. Instead of having fun and laughing with my friends, I have to…

whole new level. Over time, he evolved from doing simple illusions to death defying acts which left audiences all over America quaking in their seats. Harry Houdini is widely recognized as one of the best magicians of all time. Houdini was born on March 24, 1874, in what is now Budapest, Hungary, the son of Rabbi Mayer Samuel Weisz and Cecilia Weisz. After emigrating to America, the family moved to Appleton, Wisconsin,…

Dorothea Lange was born on May the 26th of 1895 in the city of Hoboken, New Jersey. Dorothea got polio at only 7 years old and it weakened her right leg and foot. Dorothea’s parents both wanted her to get a great education. When she was a teenager her mother and father divorced. In 1913, She joined the New York Training School for Teachers. She pursued a profession in photography and studied photography at Columbia University. She later took on a career as a photographer in San Francisco,…

Fashion Institute of Technology. The Fashion Institute of Technology is a college of art, business, design, mass communication and technology within the Fashion Industry. It is an urban campus located in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. (MedLibrary.org) The cost of housing is reasonable, considering I will be living in Manhattan. Two housing options are available, the Traditional Style Rooms and the Apartment Accommodations. The Traditional Style Rooms include a shared room…

Chester A. Arthur was born in Fairfield, Vermont on October 5, 1829. He was the second son of Malvina Arthur and the Reverend William Arthur, an immigrant from Ireland and a Baptist preacher. Growing up, President Arthur’s family moved a lot as his father moved from church to church. He attended Union College where he graduated in 1848. After graduating, he worked as a teacher and studied law and in 1854 he passed the bar exam and became a lawyer. On October 25, 1859, he married Ellen…

Pulled from the highly informational novel The Death and the Life of American Cities written by Jane Jacobs, lies an augment about the roles citizens as well as strangers play in the safety of their city streets. This argument is placed in chapter two of the book with the heading of “The uses of sidewalk: safety.” Jane writes clearly and explicitly of her research as well as her opinion on the topic. To analyze the text further I did my own observations of LOVE Park, located in center city…

Amarna is a city that is separated. The separation occurs within the title of nobility or one of a commoner. This was the urban plan, or the central idea of the design of the city. Since this was a capital city in the Egyptian empire, the nobles cannot be living at the same level or area as the people they rule over. That would be a disgrace! The city designers too this ideal and made all their designs for the city around that image. When any large metropolitan area is created, the organization…

located "in the Inman Park neighborhood as a mecca for experiencing a taste of what the city of Atlanta has to offer” . In 1889, the space was used as a factory for the Atlanta Stove Works. "The Atlanta Stove Works brought Atlanta a revolutionary idea in the field of cooking – the Barrett Range – made of cast iron" . The cast iron stove business grew to eventually making $35 million a year with employing over 500 people. Being in business almost 100 years, they finally closed their doors in…

The World of Mexican Migrants Migration of Mexicans is not a new topic, regardless of their destination. It has been going on for hundreds of years. Each migrant has a different story, and a different reason for moving. Of the Mexicans interviewed by Judith Hellman, the author of the book, The World of Mexican Migrants, it is clear that many of them migrated to the United States in order to create new and better lives for themselves, help their parents as much as possible, and raise a family in…

“Welcome to New York,” was all it took for me to wake me from my four hour and a half nap. I readjusted in my seat to look out the large window that my head had just been resting only to observe grimy white subway tiles and cracked gray concrete. Quickly, I realized that we were driving through the Lincoln Tunnel that connects New Jersey to New York City. The small, hazy, yellow lights that filled the tunnel bounced off the red velour bus seats, creating strange patterns; I held my breathe,…