In 1988, a massive blizzard overtook NYC. Unprepared for the storm, many people froze to death, died of starvation, and were caught up in fires. Jose Marti describes the effects and aftermaths of this great storm in his work, “New York Under the Snow.”
Author: Rosanna Abdilla
Opium Den NYC
Pictured above is an Opium Den, like the ones mentioned in Stephen Crane’s “Opium’s Varied Dreams.”
Central Park 2016
Olmsted’s Central Park Plan
The image above is Frederick Law Olmsted’s original design for Central Park. As Olmsted writes in his “Passages in the Life of an Unpractical Man,” “properly planned and managed public recreation grounds would have a most civilizing and refining influence on the people” (241). Parks became a tranquil escape for the fast paced lifestyle of …