Posts Tagged ‘politics’
Trailblazing Through Greenwich Village
June 26, 2012
Professor: Bernadette McCauley ITF: Fiona Lee Campus: Hunter This website was created by Macaulay Honors students at Hunter College as part of their first-year seminar, The Peopling of New York, taught by Professor Bernadette McCauley. As part of their neighborhood study of Greenwich Village, each student conducted an individual investigation on a topic of their […]
2012 | 2012, All The Sites, Bernadette McCauley, Fiona Lee, Hunter College | Media: Eportfolio, Google docs, Tiki-toki, Twenty Eleven, WordPress | Tags: Activism, AIDS, Art, Bitter End, culture, Emma Goldman, Father Antonio Demo, gender, Greenwich Village, Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, history, Jane Jacobs, Jazz, Judson Memorial Church, Leonel Baizan, LGBTQ, Off-off Broadway Theater, Our Lady of Pompeii, Patchin Place, Philip A. White, politics, Prohibition, race, religion, Sister Miriam Kevin Phillips, St. Vincent's Hospital, Tiki-Toki, timeline, Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, urban planning, Village Vanguard, Washington Square Park, Webster Hall, Workers' RightsComments (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. […]
