New Year’s Eve is a huge symbol of New York. Every year millions of people gather on the street of Times Square to watch the ball drop and to watch the performances of some of the most famous people of that years’ time. I thought it was a great topic to use because New Years …
The 1964-1965 World’s Fair in New York was not the first World’s Fair to take to place, it was not even the first World’s Fair New York had held in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. The event was not even officially recognized as a World’s Fair. Despite these elements of the exposition the Fair made a name …
“The New York Naval Yard” One of New York’s most terrifying historical contributions during the Revolutionary War were the British prison ships located off Wallabout Bay in what today is Brooklyn[1]. The horrors of the ships included rampant disease, beatings, and gross mistreatment and neglect of American patriots, including the HMS Jersey, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …