We always want what we can’t have. It’s something inevitable, a trait that we must all possess. But what’s the point of stating this? We want comfort and safety from those near us. We long for emotional, mental, and moral support. We seek attention, to be showered by love and […]
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The company Nintendo is notorious for making video games that offer unique interactive experiences, such as their popular franchise Animal Crossing. The Animal Crossing series of video games allows people to take on the role of a new resident in a town full of talking animals that have all sorts […]
Throughout the readings I kept finding myself coming back to the fact that Robert Moses seems to have done so much for the city, and yet I have never heard of him. When I started reading about the Washington Square Park ordeal though, I realized that I actually have heard […]
While Mayor Bill de Blasio recently went on the late night television show “Real Time with Bill Maher” to proclaim himself an indisputable progressive, some in his city have found themselves disagreeing. Recently, a small Brooklyn-based newspaper called The Brooklyn Daily Eagle wrote an article about a protest that occurred as a […]
Robert Moses is a man that is known to have greatly impacted the physical features of the New York City we know today. The process of city building has changed drastically since his time, and therefore his influence on the building of NYC is unmatched. His contributions to the city […]
Robert Moses has come to be known as a figure that single-handedly made New York City what it is today-physically speaking at least. During his time in power, his contributions were astounding not only in the number of public works completed, but also in the speed of their execution, in […]
As I pored over the readings this weekend, I couldn’t help but think of a video I had watched about redlining by the informative or irritating (depending on how you see the man) Adam Conover on the TV show Adam Ruins Everything. A video that I believe I had to […]