Neighborhoods of New York
May 20, 2019
Neighborhoods of New York
Professor: Joseph Berger
ITF: Madison Priest
Campus: Hunter College
URL: https://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/neighborhoodsofnyc/
Neighborhoods of New York is the result of research project undertaken by first year Macaulay Honors students at Hunter College, City University of New York (CUNY) under the supervision of Professor Joseph Berger and Madison Priest. This website showcases student groups' profiles of New York City neighborhoods. Students integrated images, video and sound, created timelines, and left room for "surprises and serendipities."
Comments (0) | Tags: community, culture, demographic, food, history, immigration, little italy, Manhattan, Queens College, timeline | More: African American, All The Sites, audio, Chinatown, Chinese, Dutch, GoogleMaps, Greenwich Village, Hunter College, Irish, Italian, Joseph Berger, Madison Priest, Manhattan, Queens, Russian, video, WordPress, Year
The Peopling of New York City
May 15, 2019
The Peopling of New York City
Professor: George Gonzalez
ITF: Hamad Sindhi
Campus: Baruch College
URL: https://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/gonzalez19/
Class site for Professor George Gonzalez's IDC 3001H The People of New York. Site was used mainly for hosting the syllabus and reading materials, as well as for student essays on the readings.
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Seminar Two
May 11, 2019
Seminar Two
Professor: Grazyna Drabik
ITF: Andres Orejuela
Campus: City College
URL: https://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/20crossroads/
Students visited 20 crossroads on Broadway and Fifth Avenue. The stops began in lower Manhattan on Wall Street, and arrived at 181st Street in Washington Heights. The stops are arranged in order on the homepage of site, including the name of the street and neighborhood. For each entry, students wrote up a short post about their experience of the location and about the location itself.
Comments (0) | Tags: Broadway, Central Park, Crossroads, Fifth Avenue, Inwood, Manhattan, Morningside, NYC Marathon | More: African American, All The Sites, Andres Orejuela, Brazillian, Chinatown, Chinese, City College, Dominican, East Harlem, East Village, Grazyna Drabik, Greek, Greenwich Village, Harlem, Indian, Irish, Italian, Jewish, Korean, Latino, Lower East Side, Manhattan, Mexican, Morningside Heights, Muslim, Other, Upper East Side, WordPress, Year
NY State of Mine: We Are From New York
July 24, 2018
NY State of Mine: We Are From New York
Professor: Charlene Floyd
ITF: Julie Fuller
Campus: Baruch College
URL: https://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/nystateofmine/
Charlene Floyd's class set out to learn about the ways in which New York public schools shape the lives of middle and high school students–their connections to the city in which they live, and their identities as New Yorkers. Her students collaborated to produce this digital book which reflects their ideas about what it means to be a New Yorker. They concluded the semester by visiting the Computer School in Manhattan to present the book to a group of middle schoolers.
Comments (0) | Tags: Issuu, NY public schools | More: 2018, All The Sites, Baruch College, Brooklyn, Charlene Floyd, Julie Fuller, Manhattan, Other, Other, Queens, Staten Island
Hispanic/Latino Nueva York
June 11, 2018
Hispanic/Latino Nueva York
Professor: Francisco Soto
ITF: Joseph Pentangelo
Campus: College of Staten Island
URL: https://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/soto2018/
Each student was randomly assigned a topic pertinent to the Cuban, Dominican, and Puerto Rican communities in NYC, including subjects as diverse as Avenue of the Americas and Santería. Each student made three posts on these topics, as they focused their attention from a general overview to a specific aspect that they found particularly interesting.
Comments (0) | Tags: cuba, Cuban, Dominican, dominican republic, hispanic, Puerto Rican, puerto rico | More: 2018, African American, All The Sites, Brooklyn, Caribbean, College of Staten Island, Francisco Soto, Joseph Pentangelo, Latino, Manhattan, Other, Queens, Staten Island, WordPress
NYCROPOLIS
May 31, 2018
NYCROPOLIS
Professor: Peter Vellon
ITF: Amanda Matles
Campus: Queens College
URL: https://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/vellon18/
New York is dying. “But wait,” you say. “New York is dying? Impossible.” Sure, a visit to the Big Apple on any given day will yield sights of glass high-rises, bustling crowds of tourists and professionals, and shops with bedazzling variety: from classic bodegas to swanky yoga studios. But look closer. How can there be so many new skyscrapers and yet so many homeless? Why are trains on-time in Yorkville but not in Van Nest? And what on earth happened to the rent in Chelsea?
A visit to NYCropolis might leave you angry and frustrated with the current state of affairs. Good- that’s why we made it. The issues we researched relate to deep, unsolved problems in New York’s physical and social architecture. But our city is an amazing city, a feat of history that’s constantly reinventing itself. And we need you to be a part of its resurrection. Today, New York’s development conceals its death in essential areas. New life only comes when we stop treating the symptoms and start honestly working toward a cure. The more of NYCropolis you read, the more you will find that solutions to these problems don’t lie with the powers that be, but with the power of the people. Call your council member, join an advocacy group, and participate in Community Board meetings using your informed opinions. Turn this dying city into bright lights that inspire you and streets that make you feel brand-new.
-From the students of Honors 126, “The Peopling of New York,” Professor Vellon, and Amanda Matles
Macaulay Honors College and Queens College
Spring 2018
*With apologies to Jay-Z and Alicia Keys
Comments (0) | Tags: affordable housing, bail, black lives matter, charter schools, Children, de Blasio, desegregation, discrimination, economic inequality, gentrification, High Line, homelessness, jail, labor mismanagement, mental illness, MTA, NYCHA, NYPD, NYU, Occupy Wall Street, opioids, policing, public school, segregation, Stuyvesant Town, subway, Upper West Side | More: 2018, African American, All The Sites, Amanda Matles, Armenian, audio, Bay Ridge, Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, Bushwick, Caribbean, Chelsea, Chinatown, Chinese, Christian, East Asian, East Harlem, East Village, Flushing, GoogleMaps, Greenpoint, Haitian, Harlem, Indian, Irish, Italian, Jackson Heights, Jewish, Korean, Latino, Lower East Side, Manhattan, maps, Mexican, Muslim, Other, Other, Other, Peter Vellon, Polish, Queens, Queens College, Russian, video, Williamsburg, WordPress
A People's Guide to NYC
May 29, 2018
A People's Guide to NYC
Professor: Arianna Martinez
ITF: Lindsey Albracht
Campus: Queens College
URL: https://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/peoplesguidetonyc/
Inspired by the recently published book, A People’s Guide to Los Angeles, this assignment asked students at Queens Macaulay Honors College to construct an alternative tourist guide to New York City: a guide that highlights immigrant stories, prioritizes contested spaces, and creates a geographic record of sites of social movements and political struggles within the city.
Students selected a site in their own neighborhood or a neighborhood that was familiar to them, conducted research on the site, visited it to take photographs, and crafted a story about the site using excerpts from A People’s Guide to Los Angeles as a model.
Comments (0) | Tags: Activism, activist, Barclays Center, contested spaces, downtown brooklyn, education, FEMA, Five Towns, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Fresh Meadows, garbage disposal, Howard Beach, hurricane sandy, imminent domain, Long Island, Nassau County, NYDOE, public library, Queens College, stadiums, Syosset, teacher strike, tourism, waste transfer plant | More: 2018, African American, All The Sites, Arianna Martinez, audio, Chinese, Flushing, Jewish, Korean, Latino, Lindsey Albracht, maps, Other, Queens, Queens College, Upper East Side, video, WordPress
The Peopling of NYC through Film
May 25, 2018
The Peopling of NYC through Film
Professor: Robert Tutak
ITF: Frieda Benun
Campus: Brooklyn College
URL: https://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/tutak18/category/documentary-projects/the-community-i-dont-know/
For the final project, students were assigned to make a documentary film on the topic: "Their Community: The Community I Know the Least or Fear the Most"
The prompt:
Using journalistic, photojournalistic, and filmmaking tools, document the community that is most alien to you:
(1) Learn about the community and its members first hand; hear their story
(2) Confront your stereotypes, challenge your reservations & prejudice or confirm your fears
The students were encouraged to confront their own fears and/or prejudices by venturing out and delving deep into the feared/unknown community through interviews.
Note: A few of the interviews were secured with the promise that they would only be shown to the closed room of students in our class, as they feature incriminating (e.g. drug or crime-related) content. Those are password-protected.
Comments (0) | Tags: community, documentary, education, film, immigrants. seminar 2 | More: 2018, African American, All The Sites, Brooklyn, Brooklyn College, Frieda Benun, iMovie, Indian, Irish, Italian, Jewish, Korean, Latino, Manhattan, Mexican, Muslim, Other, Queens, Robert Tutak, Russian, Sikh, Staten Island
Chronicles of a Changing New York
Chronicles of a Changing New York
Professor: Grazyna Drabik
ITF: Andres Orejuela
Campus: City College
URL: https://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/yesterdaytodayny/
A number of sites throughout New York with historical changes detailed in text and image.
Comments (0) | Tags: CCNY | More: 2018, African American, All The Sites, Andres Orejuela, Chelsea, Christian, City College, Grazyna Drabik, Greenwich Village, Other, Other, Other
Their New York
Their New York
Professor: Mike Benediktsson
ITF: Christina Nadler & Madison Priest
Campus: Hunter College
URL: https://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/theirnewyork/
This website is the result of a unique research project undertaken by first year Macaulay Honors students at Hunter College, City University of New York (CUNY) under the supervision of Mike Owen Benediktsson, Madison Priest and Christina Nadler. The interviews, images, and research collected here were collected entirely by students, as part of their coursework for the People of New York City seminar, or Seminar II, an interdisciplinary class on the past and present of the city’s neighborhoods, with a focus on migration and immigration.
Comments (0) | Tags: emotions, immigration, portraits | More: 2018, African American, All The Sites, Bay Ridge, Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, Chinese, Christian, Christina Nadler, Coney Island, East Asian, Flushing, Hindu, Hunter College, Madison Priest, Mike Benediktsson, Queens, Staten Island, WordPress
An Exploration of Midwood
June 07, 2017
An Exploration of Midwood
Professor: Karen Williams
ITF: Ben Haber
Campus: Brooklyn College
URL: https://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/midwoodneighborhood/
This site looks at the Brooklyn neighborhood of Midwood, focusing in particular on the Jewish community.
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Downtown Brooklyn
Downtown Brooklyn
Professor: Karen Williams
ITF: Ben Haber
Campus: Brooklyn College
URL: https://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/downtownbrooklyn2017/
This site gives a good overview of the things to do, see and eat in Downtown Brooklyn. Contains lots of audio and pictures to highlight the transformation of Downtown into an expensive entertainment and transit hub.
Comments (0) | Tags: gentrification, high rises | More: 2017, All The Sites, audio, Ben Haber, Brooklyn, Brooklyn College, GoogleMaps, Karen Williams, Other, Other, Other
Freaks on a Ferris Wheel
Freaks on a Ferris Wheel
Professor: Karen Williams
ITF: Ben Haber
Campus: Brooklyn College
URL: https://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/freaksonaferriswheel/
This whimsical site explores the history and present of Coney Island. Working through the five senses, the students paint a rich portrait of this entertainment center.
Comments (0) | Tags: Amusement Park, Tickle Me Tilly | More: 2017, All The Sites, audio, Ben Haber, Brooklyn College, Coney Island, Karen Williams, Other, Other, video, WordPress
An Expedition into Chinatown
An Expedition into Chinatown
Professor: Karen Williams
ITF: Ben Haber
Campus: Brooklyn College
URL: https://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/ayampplnyc/
This site explores the transformation and gentrification of Chinatown. Includes a history of the neighborhood in the form of an interactive timeline and textual and audio-visual accounts of the neighborhood through the five senses
Comments (0) | Tags: gentrification, timeline | More: 2017, All The Sites, Ben Haber, Brooklyn College, Chinatown, Chinese, GoogleMaps, Karen Williams, video, WordPress
Brighton Beach Bro
Brighton Beach Bro
Professor: Karen Williams
ITF: Ben Haber
Campus: Brooklyn College
URL: https://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/bbbb/
This site uses the five senses to explore Brighton Beach. Well organized and aesthetically pleasing, this site includes student made videos, thick description and an interactive timeline of the neighborhood
Comments (0) | Tags: instagram, timeline | More: 2017, All The Sites, audio, Ben Haber, Brighton Beach, Brooklyn College, GoogleMaps, iMovie, Karen Williams, Other, Russian, Ukrainian, video, WordPress
People of the Ridge
People of the Ridge
Professor: Karen Williams
ITF: Ben Haber
Campus: Brooklyn College
URL: https://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/peopleoftheridge/
This site explores Bay Ridge from the perspective of three student residents. They walk through the neighborhood and provide a visual and textual demonstration of the "surprisingly linear wealth gradient"
Comments (0) | Tags: residential, wealth gap | More: 2017, All The Sites, audio, Bay Ridge, Ben Haber, Brooklyn College, East Asian, Karen Williams, Latino, Other, video, WordPress
The People of New York City
June 06, 2017
The People of New York City
Professor: Sarah Bishop
ITF: Anna Gjika
Campus: Baruch College
URL: https://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/bishop17/
Class website to retain course materials (readings, syllabus), student reading reflections, and scaffolded final project assignment posts.
Comments (0) | Tags: audio interviews, bishop, makerhub, migration stories, narrative analysis, Oral history, Seminar 2, your story our story | More: 2017, All The Sites, Anna Gjika, audio, Baruch College, Brooklyn, Caribbean, Chinese, East Asian, Greek, Hindu, Italian, Jewish, Latino, Other, Other, Other, Queens, Russian, Sarah Bishop, video
Podcasting the People of New York
Podcasting the People of New York
Professor: Amy Weiss
ITF: Katherine Logan McBride
Campus: City College
URL: https://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/weiss17/podcasts/
Students created podcasts to address an historical question of their choosing about the inhabitants of New York City.
Comments (0) | Tags: Bangladesh, Bensonhurst, bronx, gentrification, Queens College, Red Hook, Soho | More: 2017, All The Sites, Amy Weiss, Chelsea, Chinese, City College, East Asian, Greek, Greenpoint, Indian, Italian, Jackson Heights, Jewish, Katherine Logan McBride, Latino, Lower East Side, Manhattan, Muslim, Other, Other, Polish, Queens, video
Oral Histories: Becoming American
May 30, 2017
Oral Histories: Becoming American
Professor: Nancy Aries
ITF: Julie Fuller
Campus: Baruch College
URL: https://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/becomingamerican17/
Students created multi-media oral history stories on each other and also on someone else they know. Their public facing projects integrated long-form text (based on personal interviews) with visual artifacts, audio, moving clips, graphs, maps, and timelines that clarify both the informant's story and the context of the immigrant group which this person represents.
Comments (0) | Tags: American dream, dual identity, immigrant experience, Oral history | More: 2017, All The Sites, audio, Baruch College, Brooklyn, Caribbean, Chinatown, Chinese, Dominican, Flushing, Haitian, Harlem, Irish, Italian, Jewish, Julie Fuller, Korean, Lower East Side, Manhattan, maps, Nancy Aries, Other, Polish, Queens, Russian, Ukrainian, video, WordPress
The Peopling of New York
The Peopling of New York
Professor: Stephen Steinberg
ITF: Lindsey Albracht
Campus: Queens College
URL: https://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/steinberg17/category/oral-history-project/
For the final project in this Seminar 2, students interviewed a member of their family about an immigration experience. They also reflected on the exercise in a brief statement that accompanied the post.
The goal of the oral history was to consider how some of the more abstract themes of the class actually played out in the particular lives of people that students actually knew. In the reflection, they were asked to make the connection between course themes and the interview, but also to reflect on the experience of interviewing itself.
The professor opted to display these projects on the existing course website rather than asking students to create separate sites or asking me to create something new. I think a site which displayed all of the posts at once (in Aesop, though I know that theme has its issues) and allowing the user to navigate to the histories that interested them would have been a better design choice, because the histories of students who posted early are a bit buried. But overall, I think the reflections mostly demonstrate that students met the goal of the assignment.
Comments (0) | Tags: bronx, Catholicism, Eastern European, Jamaica, Long Beach, sound cloud | More: 2017, All The Sites, audio, Brooklyn, Caribbean, Chinese, Christian, Dominican, East Asian, GarageBand, iMovie, Italian, Jewish, Korean, Latino, Lindsey Albracht, Other, Other, Queens, Queens College, Russian, Stephen Steinberg, Ukrainian, video, WordPress
Contested New York
May 22, 2017
Contested New York
Professor: Peter Vellon
ITF: Amanda Matles
Campus: Queens College
URL: https://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/vellon17/
This website is the hub for a collection of six digital projects that focus on several key points of socio-economic conflict, struggle, and tension in New York City from the post World War II period to the present.
It would have been great to coordinate link-backs to the hub site from each of the group project sites, but not all of the groups included one.
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Reading Between the skyLines
Reading Between the skyLines
Professor: Moustafa Bayoumi
ITF: Kelly Eckenrode
Campus: Brooklyn College
URL: https://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/skylines/
Students divided into 7 groups and choose a language generally based on their ease with the language. The 7 groups included: Spanish, Japanese, Hebrew, Russian, African American, Arabic and Korean. Each group went to a bookstore that specializes in that language of literature. Students quickly learned that these stores are much more than deposits for books. Typically, the serve as a culture refuge to preserve culture of immigrants groups into the city. I thought it was a successful project.
For myself and the students, it was interesting to learn how different language prompted different interviews. Our most extreme example was the Arabic bookstore. The manger did not give consent to share their interview on the internet. What seemed like a snag initially–gave the students a moment to pause and reflect on seriousness of sharing stories of people. The students decided to re-frame their work to discuss Trump era problems.
Comments (0) | Tags: bookstores, interviews, language, transcribed | More: 2017, African American, All The Sites, audio, Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, Brooklyn College, East Asian, East Harlem, GoogleMaps, iMovie, Jewish, Kelly Eckenrode, Korean, Latino, Manhattan, maps, Moustafa Bayoumi, Muslim, Russian, WordPress
Storefront Survivors
May 21, 2017
Storefront Survivors
Professor: Mike Benediktsson
ITF: Christina Nadler
Campus: Hunter College
URL: https://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/storefrontsurvivors
This website is the result of a unique research project undertaken by first year Macaulay Honors students at Hunter College, City University of New York (CUNY) under the supervision of Mike Owen Benediktsson, Marnie Brady, Caroline Loomis, Christina Nadler, and Tommy Wu. The interviews, images, and research collected here were collected entirely by students, as part of their coursework for the People of New York City seminar, or Seminar II, an interdisciplinary class on the past and present of the city’s neighborhoods, with a focus on migration and immigration. In the last few years, elected officials and the media have begun to acknowledge the plight of small, independent businesses in the city. Blogs like Jeremiah’s Vanishing New York have called attention to the loss of valuable landmark institutions due to unregulated commercial rent markets and municipal rezoning. Local elected officials, including Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, have put forth competing legislative measures that would seek to relieve some of the economic pressure faced by small business owners in the city. Attention to the precarious position of small business is growing. But is it enough? Explore our website to find profiles of small business owners across the city who are conducting their own individual struggles against the crosscurrents of economic, social, and policy change in the city.
Comments (0) | Tags: small business, storefront | More: 2017, African American, All The Sites, Armenian, Brooklyn, Caribbean, Chinatown, Chinese, Christian, Christina Nadler, GoogleMaps, Harlem, Hunter College, Jackson Heights, Jewish, Lower East Side, Manhattan, Mexican, Mike Benediktsson, Muslim, Queens, Russian, Social Explorer, Upper East Side, WordPress
Here to Stay NYC
Here to Stay NYC
Professor: Lina Newton
ITF: Tommy Wu
Campus: Hunter College
URL: https://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/heretostaynyc/
This is a public-facing site for the class (in addition to a class site for administration). I'm using the Kerouac theme here and I have mixed feelings about it. Aesthetically, I think it looks great but there are also some bugs and limitations (if students don't want to use CSS). Overall, I would recommend it because the student groups took ownership of the site and spent a lot time perfecting their profile pages. They seemed to be proud of what they have produced. I think this would be a good example for future students.
Comments (0) | Tags: Chinese, Ecuadorians, gentrification, immigrant communities, immigration, Indians, Jamaicans, low income, Mexicans, neighborhoods, working class | More: 2017, All The Sites, audio, Brooklyn, Caribbean, Chinatown, Chinese, Dominican, Flushing, GoogleMaps, Hunter College, Indian, Jackson Heights, Lina Newton, Lower East Side, Manhattan, maps, Mexican, Morningside Heights, Queens, Sunset Park, Tommy Wu, video, WordPress
Halal Carts: Behind the Scenes of a New Yorker's Lunch
May 20, 2017
Halal Carts: Behind the Scenes of a New Yorker's Lunch
Professor: David Rosenberg
ITF: Jacob Cohen
Campus: Baruch College
URL: https://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/halalcarts/
This site examines many of the issues that involve halal carts in New York City, with a focus specifically on the lives and work of the cooks, the owners and product suppliers, the customers, and the city bureaucracy that governs the carts. Students composed articles highlighting different issues related to these topics and immigration, and utilized the Himalayas theme with its one-page menu feature. Entries include photographs as well as recorded interview clips.
Comments (0) | Tags: black market, bureaucracy, dietary restrictions, food, food carts, halal, interviews, street vendors, taxi drivers | More: 2017, All The Sites, audio, Baruch College, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, David Rosenberg, Egyptian, Indian, Jackson Heights, Jacob Cohen, Manhattan, Muslim, Other, Queens, video
Immigrants in New York City
January 09, 2017
Immigrants in New York City
Professor: Jessica Siegel
ITF: Laurel-Mei Turbin
Campus: Brooklyn College
URL: http://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/siegel2016/
This site was created for Prof. Jessica Siegel's Seminar 2 course, Spring 2016, Brooklyn College (ITF Laurel-Mei Turbin). The students contributed the following to the site: oral histories, neighborhood tours, and personal immigration narratives.
Comments (0) | Tags: immigrant workers, immigration narratives, labor, neighborhood tours, oral histories | More: 2016, All The Sites, Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, Brooklyn College, Chinese, Flushing, GoogleMaps, Haitian, Jackson Heights, Jessica Siegel, Latino, Laurel-Mei Turbin, Mexican, Other, Queens, Russian, Sunset Park, Ukrainian
Caribbean New York
November 17, 2016
Caribbean New York
Professor: Jennifer Lutton
ITF: Katherine Logan McBride
Campus: City College
URL: http://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/caribbeannewyork16/
Students in the course worked to understand the transnational connections between the Caribbean (specifically the West Indies and Haiti) and New York City from the early 20th century to the current context, and the influences they have had on each other’s cultural, political, and economic development. We explored theories of transnationalism, mobility, and diaspora to examine the impact of multidirectional flows of Caribbean people, culture, goods, and ideas enlivened by contemporary communication and transportation technologies.
Throughout the semester students contributed scaffolded assignments to a course website, building a repository of notes, data, papers, sources, scripts for their research and worked in small groups to curate a multimedia online exhibition to present what they learned. Group projects explore: political economy; music and dance; gender and identity through art and literature; media in the diaspora; and cultural identity through food.
Comments (0) | Tags: Art, dance, diaspora, food, gender, identity, literature, media, music, network, political economy, transnational | More: 2016, African American, All The Sites, Brooklyn, Caribbean, City College, Haitian, Harlem, Jennifer Lutton, Katherine Logan McBride, maps, Other, WordPress
Becoming American
August 16, 2016
Becoming American
Professor: Nancy Aries
ITF: Kara van Cleaf
Campus: Baruch College
URL: http://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/aries16/
Students created oral history projects on each other and also on someone else they know.
Comments (0) | Tags: family, immigrant experience, Oral history, students | More: 2016, All The Sites, audio, Baruch College, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, Buddhist, Chinatown, Chinese, Egyptian, Greek, Italian, Jewish, Kara van Cleaf, Korean, Manhattan, Muslim, Nancy Aries, Sunset Park, WordPress
The Peopling of New York
June 11, 2016
The Peopling of New York
Professor: Robert Viscusi
ITF: Jennifer Corby
Campus: Brooklyn College
URL: http://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/viscusi16/#
This site was mostly used for students to submit written work regarding the course readings, as well as to submit travel notes from field trips around the city. There is the most potential in the concept of the Travel Notes section, and this could be fruitful in another class.
Comments (0) | Tags: Seminar 2, travel notes | More: 2016, All The Sites, Brooklyn College, Jennifer Corby, Other, Other, Other, Robert Viscusi
Contested New York
June 08, 2016
Contested New York
Professor: Peter Vellon
ITF: Amanda Matles
Campus: Queens College
URL: http://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/vellon16/
Contested New York is a collection of digital essays that focus on several key points of socio-economic conflict, struggle, and tension in New York City from the post World War II period to the present. Our guiding questions were: Does NYC always “work,” and what happens when it does not? Our project was created during the Spring 2016 semester by students from the Macaulay Honors College at Queens College, Class of 2019, as part of the seminar course The Peopling of New York City.
