My group and I (Ashley Dominic, Sherilyne Co, and Samson Zachariah) are doing a multimedia presentation pertaining to the Macy’s on Herald Square. Our presentation will consist of a documentary-styled video as well as a New York Times-styled newspaper article displaying our research from the combined perspective of both a historian and a consumer. Our presentation will focus on multiple aspects of Macy’s’ impact on urbanization and industrialization in New York City, as well as its popularization of department stores in a new age of consumer culture. We want to focus on Macy’s’ appeal to the middle class as well as its revolutionary contributions to the societal structure at the time. Our presentation will also delve into the change in hands of ownership of the corporation and examine the architecture of the building. We aspire to take a couple of the aspects enlisted above and especially develop them in our presentation.
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Landmark Presentation
Teddy Roosevelt’s Home/Museum (Aditya, Maggie, Malka)
After we visit the museum and learn more about Teddy Roosevelt, we plan to choose one aspect from his life and focus on that. We will choose one of these aspects and discuss the substance of that specific aspect and Teddy Roosevelt’s influence on it(i.e. trusts, crime, etc.) We will combine the historical research with the content of his life, contribution, impact, and archival images, and present it in a documentary format. Alternatively, we may discuss the evolution of the block over 100 years and consequently, present it using digital maps and timelines.
Our Projects
I, Aditya Nihalani, along with Malka Mermelstein and Maggie Wrobleski, are going to do the Village for the neighborhood project and Teddy Roosevelt’s home in the city for the landmark project.
Assignment Topics
Emily Miller and I (Joy Evans) are doing our neighborhood project on Flatbush (3rd on the list) and currently plan on contrasting with the previous group (Park Slope). We are also working together on the Landmark presentation and have chosen Willowbrook abandoned insane asylum in Staten Island.
NY Landmark Ideas?
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