From the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean, our country is a nation of immigrants. We have heard this in many presidential speeches and are constantly reminded of such. Look about and you will see people, faces that were born in a different place or are descendant of people born elsewhere. From New Yor...

A Wall Street Poet's Painful Muse - THURSDAY, September 12, 2002 This article caught my eye because of the title. A Wall Street Poet's Painful Muse. The 'Poet's Painful' part of the title grabbed me. I began to read it because of the first sentence also. This article had to do with the wor...

42nd Street The theater has always been a favorite pastime of mine. I love to go and watch a great show: a ballet, an opera, a musical, or just a play, I jump at the chance to enjoy a good show! Standing on a Broadway stage has always been a dream of mine. Although, I knew it would never happen...

My first experience with unjustly being profiled was November 19, 1993. I was walking home from the city's subway station, after a long hard day at work. As I turned the corner of 59th street and Lexington avenue. I observed two white females walking ...

Newark Field Project (1) The vast array of flashy shops and trendy restaurants, preceding the Newark Shopping Center, make up the second definite commercial landscape of East Main Street. The second landscape which includes a jamboree of barbershops, pizza kitchens, and flower boutiques begins...

What meaning does art hold in the lives of people? Is it simply available for entertainment, or to display power and prestige? On the other hand, is art the personification of light and happiness in one's life? In "Paul's Case" by Willa Cather, Paul sees the world of art as an ...

Why relocate to Manhattan, New York? Downtown New York is the birthplace of New York City and of our Nation. Among being one of the most historic and intriguing neighborhoods in the United States, it is also the heart of the nation's financial industry and the home of Wall S...

PIRI THOMAS Down These Mean Streets Throughout the literary life of New York, many writers have concentrated their works on the influence that the atmosphere of the city has had on their lifestyle. There is hardly a major American, English, Irish, French, or Spanish writer who hasn't pour...

If you want it you can find it in New York City from the hustle and bustle of Time Square to the serenity of a quiet park bench in Central Park you can do anything you want to in New York. Within walking distance, you can find a zoo, an aquarium, numerous museums, the fashion district...

The most intriguing metropolitan mayoral race occurred May 14, 2002, when incumbent Sharpe James was sought an unprecedented fifth term. However, James would not be vying against the typical candidate. The 66-year-old James was about to face the fight of his political life thanks to freshmen City C...

Kris wheeled to class on her first day at the new school. She noticed people staring at her, but that wasn't strange to her. Kris knew it would be hard to make new friends because of her disability, but she would try her best. The first four hours of school flew by. Kris didn'...

The Catcher in the Rye Many times in literature, the setting is particularly significant to the novel in terms of plot, themes, or characters. The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger, takes place in 1950 New York City. The main character, Holden Caulfield, got expelled from school...

Commercial architecture from 1910-1920 was very different from buildings today. Thanks to the advances in technology, bigger and better commercial buildings are able to be constructed. Many companies built offices or factories during the period of 1910-1920, and many still exist today. These buildin...

America in Danger The United States is considered one of the most prominent countries in the world and its influence has a great impact on other societies and their way of life. In today's modern society the United States promotes what amounts to cultural imperialism throughout the whole world...

Billy Bathgate, is a book of a young boy's transition into manhood. It is an amazingly well-written book that intrigued me the entire way through. It starts out in Billy's hometown, the Bronx of New York in the twenties; a time of social unrest and prohibition. The apartment building Billy lives i...

The ducks, the red hat, and Allie are used as symbols in The Catcher in the Rye. Another frequent topic in The Catcher in the Rye is Holden's younger brother Allie. Holden adores Allie and is very distressed about his premature death. It is easy to say that Allie's death was the beginning of ...

The Hindu Temple Society of North America was formed on January 26, 1970. At that time the Hindu Temple Society of North America established a Hindu Temple-Culture Center and constructed the Sri Maha Vallabha Ganapathi Devasthanam (located at 45-57 Bowne Street in Flushing Queens). "The logo...

Billy Bathgate is a book about a young boy's transition into manhood. It is an amazingly well-written book that intrigued me the entire way through. It starts in Billy's hometown, the Bronx of New York, in the twenties, a time of social unrest and prohibition. The apartment building Billy lives ...

The roots of Hip Hop culture sink decades deep into the soil of urban civilization. The term "Hip Hop" was coined by DJ Kool Herc, meaning that the beats were hip hopping back and forth from one turntable to the other. Kool Herc and Bambatta are documented spinning breakbeats in the early seventie...

A business man walks by in a suit, followed closely by a transvestite in a purple mini skirt and red stilettos. "One of a kind prints, right here ladies!" A man on the corner has set up shop, the merchandise: as many ties as you could possibly want for only three dollars each. "Oh gir...

A History of gangs in the USA Although it is not fair and certainly not warranted to connect any ethnic group with organized crime, it is a fact that the massive immigration of the early 1900's fueled the creation of the early gangs, particularly in New York City. As more and more immigr...

City Hall is one of the most distinguished buildings in all of Buffalo, located at the head of Niagara Square facing Court Street. Many Architects and critics say that Buffalo would not be the same without City Hall. The building of City Hall began with the groundbreaking on September 16, 1929. At ...

Sobel and Lillith's study into the determinants of nonstationary personal space invasion, sets out to examine and explore the behavior and reaction of subjects whose personal space may be violated or crossed into. The study, which was conducted in April 1974 on 34th street in New York City, exa...

THE MINNESOTA CONNECTION Written By Al Palmquist with John Stone The Minnesota Connection is a true story written from police records, interviews with ex-prostitutes and pimps, and the personal experiences of Al Palmquist and numerous other officers of the Minneapolis Police Department. The pri...

Throughout my research, I learn a lot about gangs and their lives a gang members life completely changes once they become a member. I will describe gangs in the prison system and focus on one gang that is in the real world and how they are affiliated with the gangs in prison system. New York City'...