Posts Tagged ‘gentrification’
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 […]
2018 | 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 | 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 SideComments (0)
Downtown Brooklyn
June 7, 2017
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.
2017 | 2017, All The Sites, audio, Ben Haber, Brooklyn, Brooklyn College, GoogleMaps, Karen Williams, Other, Other, Other | Tags: gentrification, high risesComments (0)
An Expedition into Chinatown
June 7, 2017
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
2017 | 2017, All The Sites, Ben Haber, Brooklyn College, Chinatown, Chinese, GoogleMaps, Karen Williams, video, WordPress | Tags: gentrification, timelineComments (0)
Podcasting the People of New York
June 6, 2017
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.
2017 | 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 | Tags: Bangladesh, Bensonhurst, bronx, gentrification, Queens College, Red Hook, SohoComments (0)
Here to Stay NYC
May 21, 2017
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 […]
2017 | 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 | Tags: Chinese, Ecuadorians, gentrification, immigrant communities, immigration, Indians, Jamaicans, low income, Mexicans, neighborhoods, working classComments (0)
Yemen Across the Atlantic: Exploring NYC Immigration Through the Lens of Yemen Cafe
May 28, 2014
Yemen Across the Atlantic: Exploring NYC Immigration Through the Lens of Yemen Cafe Professor: Moustafa Bayoumi ITF: Lydia Pelot-Hobbs Campus: Brooklyn College URL: http://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/bayoumi2014/ The purpose of this site was to examine the case of immigration in Brooklyn through the specific example of Yemen Cafe located in Cobble Hill. This site approaches Yemen Cafe from […]
2014 | 2014, All The Sites, Brooklyn, Brooklyn College, GoogleMaps, Indian, Italian, Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, maps, Maps Marker, Moustafa Bayoumi, Muslim, Other, Other, Other, Tiki-Toki, video | Tags: Arab Americans, archival research, Cobble Hill, food, gentrification, image mapping, restaurant, Yemeni AmericansComments (0)
Food and Immigration in NYC
May 23, 2014
Food and Immigration in NYC Professor: Kim Libman ITF: Maggie Dickinson Campus: Queens College URL: http://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/libman2014/ Our Peopling of New York Seminar looked at the issue of immigration in New York City through the lens of food and foodways. Each group focused on a particular neighborhood, researching the local history and culture by collecting both qualitative […]
2014 | 2014, All The Sites, Chinese, East Asian, Flushing, GarageBand, GoogleMaps, Greek, Italian, Jewish, Kim Libman, Korean, Latino, Lower East Side, Maggie Dickinson, maps, Maps Marker, Mexican, Queens, Queens College, Social Explorer, Tarry Hum, WordPress | Tags: food, gentrification, immigration, restaurantsComments (0)
The Peopling of Astoria, NY
May 21, 2014
The Peopling of Astoria, NY Professor: Sofya Aptekar ITF: Fiona Lee Campus: Hunter College URL: http://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/sa14 This website showcases the work of Macaulay Honors students at Hunter College in Seminar 2: The Peopling of New York in spring 2014. Focusing on the neighborhood of Astoria in western Queens, students investigated the role of immigration and […]
2014 | 2014, All The Sites, Egyptian, Fiona Lee, Greek, Hunter College, iMovie, Other, Queens, Sofya Aptekar, WordPress | Tags: 9/11, Arabic, astoria, English, gentrification, interviews, Kaufman Studios, language, Little Egypt, NYPD, observations, surveillanceComments (0)
Brooklyn Literature in Context
January 29, 2014
Brooklyn Literature in Context Professor: Martha Nadell ITF: Laurel-Mei Turbin Campus: Brooklyn College URL: http://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/nadell2013/ If you think you know Brooklyn, think again. Your views, preconceptions & ideas will be challenged by the scholarly explorations of this Brooklyn College course. The Peopling of New York City offered a view into Brooklyn neighborhoods that changed our […]
2014 | 2013, All The Sites, Brooklyn College, Coney Island, Laurel-Mei Turbin, maps, Martha Nadell, Other, Other, video, Williamsburg | Tags: DEINDUSTRIALIZATION, ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE, gentrification, STEREOTYPES, SUPER-GENTRIFICATIONComments (0)
Seminar II: The Peopling of New York
January 14, 2014
Seminar II: The Peopling of New York Professor: Mike Benediktsson ITF: Jesse Goldstein Campus: Hunter College URL: http://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/benediktsson2013 Our public facing work consisted of short video documentaries produced by small teams of students. Our website has a page in which all of these videos are embedded, though this site was not a focal point of […]
2014 | 2013, African American, All The Sites, Brooklyn, Chinatown, Chinese, East Asian, Flushing, Greenpoint, Hindu, Hunter College, Jesse Goldstein, Korean, Lower East Side, Mike Benediktsson, Muslim, Other, Other, Polish, Queens, video | Tags: documentary, gentrification, videoComments (0)
New York’s Four Asiatowns
November 21, 2011
Professor: Margaret Chin ITF: Mike Porter Campus: Hunter URL: http://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/chin11/ Margaret Chin’s class compared and contrasted the communities in New York’s four Asiatowns: Bay Ridge, Brooklyn; Flushing, Queens; Manhattan’s Chinatown; and Sunset Park, Brooklyn. They examined politics, issues of gentrification, and institutions in each neighborhood, including schools, libraries, community centers, medical facilities, and cultural centers. […]
2011 | 2011, All The Sites, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, Chinatown, Chinese, Flushing, Hunter College, Manhattan, Margaret Chin, Mike Porter, People, Places, Sunset Park | Media: GoogleMaps, photos, WordPress | Tags: asiatown, community centers, cultural institutions, culture, gentrification, history, libraries, medical, outreach, politics, Queens College, schoolsComments (0)
Peopling of New York: Astoria, Flushing, Coney Island, and Washington Heights
October 26, 2011
Professor: Joseph Berger ITF: Chris Caruso Campus: City College URL: http://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/berger2011/ Overview: Working with ITF Chris Caruso, Prof Berger’s class at City completed a detailed site with information about four major neighborhoods in NYC: Astoria, Flushing, Coney Island, and Washington Heights. The groups provide comprehensive information about each neighborhood, including histories, demographics, landmarks, entertainment, and food […]
