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 […]
