Upper Manhattan

Growing up in two different time periods, you might see things differently then someone who grew up in a different time period as you. Violence, drugs, laws, people, and crimes change as the year’s progress. When it comes to my parents thoughts on how our neighborhood is, compared to what it use to be, is completely different from mine. My parents were growing up around the 1980’s in, and New York City experienced 1,814, homicides during the year of 1980. This is three times what we are experiencing today. Drugs like crack and cocaine blew up in 1984, and cocaine was available in cities all across New York, especially in Upper Manhattan also known as Washington Heights. Upper Manhattan is mostly populated by Dominican people; these immigrants were willing to do anything and everything to make a living. The MTA(Metropolitan Transportation Authority )consist of 468 stations, and covers about 5,000-square-mile in region. The Trains and busses are available 24 hours a day, and seven days a week. There is 4,373 buses, and a bust stop within every two blocks. With this being said it was very easy to access the other four boroughs, to sell they’re drugs. Washington Heights was one of the major drug trafficking spots. Considering Spanish Is the language Dominicans speak, Colombian suppliers began associating with the Dominican drug dealers of Washington Heights; the drug problem got out of hand, and the Dominican drug dealers made a living off of their drug money,…

This book review will analyze different parts of the text Primates of Park Avenue and will discuss where Wednesday Martin succeed in proving her thesis. The author wanted to analyze the mothers of the Upper East Side of Manhattan and develop a better understanding of her peers since she experienced a change in her habitat. Wednesday Martin’s thesis argues that even the mothers that belong to the high social ranks of the Upper East Side of Manhattan show signs of basic primitive behaviors. The…

Introduction In recent years, there has been a great concern that the minority who experience poverty, inequality and racism is in connection to poor health outcomes. The social determinants of health such as the environment, health behavior, and socio-economic status. In this paper, my concern is how disparities of resources such as availability of food stores, and restaurants among minority cause diabetes in East Harlem as compared to the Upper Eastside where the majority of white resides.…

The new building for the Metropolitan Museum of Art was greatly expanded several times around the turn of the 20th century, with various additions being completions and its iconic façade added in 1926. In 1925, the museum acquired the Cloisters – then a separate museum dedicated to medieval art – in Upper Manhattan as a gift from John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Later, the museum launched a new, 20-year architectural master plan in 1971 to make it more accessible and open to the public. In the late…

Between 1910 and 1920 African American population increased by sixty percent in New York City while the number of whites living in the area decreased.The White Landlords began to sell their properties to black before the prices began dropping. Blacks are not alone to be blamed for driving out white from Harlem partly because by the 1920s mass transportation created new residential areas like Flushing, Boro Park, and Riverdale. (Tritter,115). As an effect, from 1920s and 1930s 118792 white people…

Roy Fox Lichtenstein was born in New York City on October 27,1923, he would grow up in the Manhattan’s Upper West Side. His Father was Milton Lichtenstein and his mother was Beatrice werner Lichtenstein. When Roy was at a young age and growing up he was not really interested in art.More so he was involved in science and comic books. It was not till he hit his teen years is when he found his love for art. He attended high school at Franklin school for boys in Manhattan and graduated from there in…

Street-Eats With roughly 23,000 residents, the 12 block deep and five block wide neighborhood of Brooklyn Heights is considered to be one of the most convenient commuting neighborhoods outside of Manhattan. This is due to the fact that the neighborhood is located directly across from the East River of lower Manhattan. It was one of the first neighborhoods outside of Manhattan to be developed and settled. Originally referred to as Brooklyn Village, Brooklyn Heights has been a prominent and…

television character and the most prominent social identity of those characters on the board were caucasian male or female. For someone like me who social identifies as an upper class caucasian female I had figured that this would be a relatively easy assignment to choose three television characters that I identify with, but it was actually more difficult than I had thought. I had thought that since most media stars are what I also identify as it would be much easier. After a lot of thought I…

In the TV show series, Gossip Girl there are many sociological concepts presented in every episode as the show progresses. There are examples of gender stereotypes, the show encompasses values and concepts that address a specific social group, which is the elites of the upper class. In Gossip girl, the representation of ostentatious lifestyle of the elites is greatly exaggerated and emphasized. The show takes place in Upper East Side New York City and the protagonists are elite high school kids…

There is so much to see and do, that I couldn't help but feel overwhelmed with my to-do list in New York. I was told that there is only one way to experience New York, and that is on foot. A big part of what makes New York so great is its atmosphere, and you can soak it up for free from just walking the city streets. Of course I took the metro to places too far to walk, but on Saturday, I decided to conquer Soho on foot. The city's neighborhoods, from the Upper East Side to Chinatown to…