The diversity and vibrant history of one of the greatest cites in the world, New York City, can be traced to its ancestral roots. Before the inhabitance of incoming European explorers, the island of Manhatan (Dutch for the present-day Manhattan) was inhabited by the Lenape tribe.[i] The island was traded for 60 guilders or $24 …
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Hip-Hop
New York City has always been a melting pot of different cultures, becoming a home for people all over the world who brought their culture with them into the city. These existing cultures are the reason for New York City’s diversity, but the city not only was a home for culture, it also gave birth …
Harlem Renaissance
During the 1920s, the Harlem Renaissance greatly impacted and diversified New York City. The Harlem Renaissance was a movement during which African American culture drastically flourished, as it developed artistically, socially, and intellectually. Throughout this era, which was also known as the dawn of the “New Negro”, black New Yorkers decided to step against the …
Thanksgiving Day Parade
Descriptive Narrative: For over 100 Years millions have viewed the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade from the heart of Manhattan. It has evolved and adapted since its inception in 1924 and has become a staple in American tradition. History: Every year in America on the fourth Thursday of November, the country celebrates the federal holiday of …
Castellammarese War
Prohibition was a landmark era in the history of American crime- it is not only where we get our romanticized image of the pinstripe clad Depression-era mobster, but also where household names such as Capone gained notoriety. As bootlegging and alcohol-smuggling became the business of organized crime, New York City became one of the key …
Newspaper Strike of 1899
The Newspaper strike of 1900 was a powerful movement from young children against the major newspaper bosses, Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst. Newsies were a group a street children who would purchase a set number of papers each morning from the different publishing companies. This number would have to be sold for each …
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
With the overpopulation of immigrants and the rise of industrialization in New York City in the nineteenth century, the number of factories and sweatshops was rising. The new technologies of production that enabled the mechanization of clothing production in the 1860s also accelerated the process of sweated work. These technologies, including the band-saw cutting machine …
The 9/11 Attacks
On September 11, 2001, a group of al-Qaeda terrorists carried out multiple attacks by crashing planes into the Pentagon in Washington D.C. and the Twin Towers in New York City. These attacks killed 2,997 people including 2,753 people alone in New York.[1] The events and attacks that took place during the day shook Americans to …
9th District Marshall Provost’s Office 1863- The Civil War Draft Riots
Breadlines in Depression-Era New York City
Whether it was suffering from unemployment, a wage cut, or from not having enough money left over after paying their bills, many New Yorkers found themselves so poor they could not afford to eat on their own expense, and often resulted to waiting on bread-lines for food. The term breadline refers to the lines that …