This sign seems so appealing doesn’t it? “Welcome to Beautiful Baldwin!” One would expect Baldwin, New York to be a town of great achievements and wonderful stories. Although, it does contain those features in its history, it was not always so perfect and cookie cutter as it seems. There was a great amount of racial […]
Bounded by 4 of the busiest thoroughfares in Queens – Winchester Boulevard to the west, the Grand Central Parkway to the north, Cross Island Parkway to the east, and Union Turnpike to the south – Creedmoor Psychiatric Center stands, pristine and unassuming. Ambulances and cars pass in and out through the security gate on Winchester, […]
Imagine this. You are walking down 108st today. Around you, you would see a culturally and economically diverse setting where Latino-Americans, Soviet-Union immigrants, African-Americans, and White-American people from different economic backgrounds can come together to the stores and buy the necessary groceries for dinner. However, this wasn’t the 108th of the 1970s. During the 1970s […]
Midtown Manhattan– it’s probably New York’s biggest tourist attraction. Whether it’s visiting Times Square, walking through Grand Central Terminal, or ice skating at Bryant Park, there is something for everyone to do. This is the only version of New York City that I have known so it was surprising to hear about the neighborhood’s history […]
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Active and bustling with people, Main Street is known to be one of the busiest streets in Flushing. With the Chinese population making up 75.5% of the entire population in that area, it isn’t a surprise to see the overwhelming amount of Chinese businesses that are thriving in that environment. While Main Street may be […]
Golden Dawn seeks to unify Greeks, the “true” Greeks in Greece, but also all over the world. In their 12 points, similar to the Young Lord’s, they speak of their goals…a superior Greek race, the removal of illegal immigrants in Greece, protecting and aiding the “true” Greek population. They do not care about the refugees […]
Sunnyside Garden Apartments, located in Sunnyside, Queens, certainly stands out as being peaceful in New York City despite only being a 20-minute subway ride away from Manhattan. Enter the brick housing complex and its courtyard, and you hear chirping birds instead of cars driving by. Above some green benches, squirrels climb the many trees. In […]
On March 24, 2011, my English as a Second Language (ESL) teacher, Ms. Guzzetti, invited my mother and I to an event in the Ossie Davis Theatre found in the New Rochelle Public Library. There, I got the chance to hear Carlotta Walls LaNier speak about her experience as one of the Little Rock Nine. […]
The Fortress is a massive building located in South Troy. Growing up in Waterford and attending preschool through 2nd grade in Albany, I would spend the drive to and from gazing across the Hudson River, and see what looked like a castle right near the water’s edge. For the many subsequent years of my adventures […]
When you hear the words “golf” and “country club”, what comes to mind? Rich people with sweaters tied around their necks, wearing pastel colors and overall being snobby? Awkward pauses between swings and idle chatter about the markets? That is to say, golf is not a sport for the masses. It invokes a specific subset […]
My little brother is crazy about McDonald’s, but he only ever eats McChicken sandwiches and french fries. As his older brother, I have the responsibility of heading over to the McDonald’s on 82nd Street to pick some up for him when there’s nothing in the house he wants to eat. It’s not a particularly remarkable […]
According to census data from 2010, when its total population was 37,479 Kew Gardens Hills was 53.9% White. But, what does “White” really encompass? Does it take into account the Russian, Polish, Bukharian, Italian, or German immigrants who live here? Or is it easier to group these separate and distinct cultures into one big blob […]
This is a story that shows several groups for change battling against a village that tried its hardest to prevent the influx of minorities by preventing the development of low-income housing. How in doing so the village illegally limited the opportunities for minorities within the village which this village had been doing for ages prior. […]
Pan American Motor Inn was once a promising idea for a luxury hotel that was strategically placed such that it would be close to the 1964 World Fair in Flushing Meadows Park, and the Mets stadium. The Pan American Motor Inn, was a very ambitious project, with 216 rooms, and luxuries such as an outdoor […]
