York County

diversity of New York City as a “gorgeous mosaic.” New York City has always been a city of immigrants, welcoming people from all over the world, searching for a better life and the American Dream. (Trillind,David) Throughout history, the United States has enacted many laws pertaining to immigration into this country. On January 25 2017, 5 days after becoming President of the United States, Donald Trump signed an Executive Order that would withhold Federal funding to cities and counties in the…

collaborating events occurring around us, we are forced to retrospect ourselves and the conditions one lives. Joan Didion’s essay “Goodbye to All That” is a story about her new experiences as a young lady and an adult in New York city. The story began with her arrival to New York and continuous to the point in time where she is in her late twenties. The story covers changes in her life, a result of life choices she made. She depicts the pros of…

Air Pollution Exposure Approximately one million people in New York City, including 300,000 children, have been diagnosed with asthma. Air pollution from mobile sources, like construction equipment, contributes to over 90% of the air cancer risk in New York County. The cost of asthma hospitalization in New York City totaled more than $242 million in 2000. In 2000 there were 26.868 hospitalizations for asthma in New York City. Children ages 0-14 accounted for 37% of all asthma hospitalizations,…

Alvin Cullum York was born in the hills of the Cumberland Plateau of Tennessee near the city of Pall Mall on December 13, 1887. Alvin was born into a poor family of 13 people: Alvin's dad William Uriah York, Alvin's mom Mary Elizabeth York, and his 11 siblings. Living in an area where people though education wasn't important, York only received 9 months of schooling. After his father died when York was 24, he started working jobs to help his family out financially, and because of the stress, he…

Many South Brooklyn residents are very familiar with Avenues H to Z. But, how about Avenues A, B, or C? Or, what about Avenue G? Most of the streets in Brooklyn are named after numbers, people, places, or things. However, travelling south of Ditmas Park, through Midwood , and into Sheepshead Bay one will encounter several east-west streets named after letters of the alphabet. Now, why is that? In the late 1800s and early 1900s, the hilly areas of Northern and Western Brooklyn (Brooklyn…

Buffalo, NY is the second most populated city after New York City. It sits on the shores of Lake Erie in the western part of the state, and at the head of the Niagara River. The residents of the city are called Buffalonians. Every month, whether it's summer or winter, it's a city that has plenty for cheap city breaks in Buffalo. Whether it's Ice Biking at Canalside in the winter or the Niagara Wine Trail in the summer, visitors looking for city breaks in Buffalo will have plenty of choices…

New York City is the most populous city in the United States. It has as many as 800 languages with an estimated 18.9 million people. New York is the 27th most extensive, the 3rd most populous, and the 7th most densely populated of the 50 United States. New York is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. Although New York City is the largest city in the country, much of New York is still rural. Albany is its state capital. New York is composed of five boroughs in which there…

Breaking News! On March 25 at 4:40 PM 159 people were working when a fire broke out in the Asch Building which is located in the heart of New York City. Workers were on the top three floors working overtime to produce shirtwaists when the building became enflamed. 146 people died, and most of them were young women; some were under the age of fifteen. There were 13 survivors; all of them were women. 54 people, in an effort to survive, leaped out of the windows of the ten story building.…

I was born in the United States of America to parents who were born abroad eight years after their nuptials. Born in Kings, Brooklyn I moved to Port-au-Prince, Haiti as an infant with my parents and three siblings. In Haiti, my father stood as a sentinel retired with Forces Armèes d’Haiti and Police Nationale d’Haiti, and my mother employed, as a National Airport Supervisor Safety Authority of Operations at International Airport Toussaint Louverture. Studying French in Mikaline Kindergarten…

central and western New York. The death of his father in 1853 forced him to abandon school in order to support his family. He worked as a teacher in a school for the blind in New York City and then worked as a clerk in a law firm in Buffalo, New York. He began his own law firm in 1862. During the Civil War, he was drafted but he paid a Polish immigrant to serve in his place so he could care for his mother. His first political job was being sheriff in Erie County, New York in 1871. While in…