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City Museum

City Museum of New York

John Semanduyev

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The tour portrayed New York’s unique timeline, as well as a focus on four integral parts of New York. The journey began with an analysis of Diversity, Money, Creativity, and Density. Diversity and density, in particular, are very applicable to the theme of our class as a whole. The city’s seemingly unbound diversity has a direct correlation to its potential density. As the city of immigrants began to take shape, finding unoccupied land became a major issue. The solution was to start building upwards, and along with the invention of the elevator, the skyscrapers we see today were born.

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Museum of the City of New York

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As we were going through the history of New York City throughout the years, one that stood out to me was the “New Immigrant City.” In the time period between 1980 and 2001, a heavy influx of immigrants came to the city. Immigration laws loosened allowing people from countries all over the world experience the city. An important thing to note is that people didn’t just come from Europe but they came from Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and Africa. This is an important milestone not just for the immigrants that came in but also for the future of New York. I was passing by another sign in the museum and it said, “What makes New York New York?” The answer to that question was money, diversity, density, and creativity. Without the different groups of people inhabiting our city, New York would just be like any other place. It wouldn’t have anything special to it. Our Chinatown and Little Italy are just as important as our SoHo or Williamsburg. Without the blending of cultures, New York city wouldn’t be the same as it is today. As for the other answers to the question, I think that they all are important aspects of the city but that diversity contributes to all of them. For example, the reason why our subways cars are so jam packed and why our sidewalks have no more space to walk is because we have so many people here. One reason why my parents came to live in New York City was because they knew that other Indian people would be there. If only people from Germany lived in New York, immigrants wouldn’t feel as comfortable about moving in.

Questions:

Which racial group/ ethnicity is least represented in the city?

What other cities in America are as diverse as New York City?

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MCNY: Representing Activism or Acts of Omission?

(Response 2 of 5) by Anna

Museum of the City of New York

Contested Terrain: History, Museums, and the Public by James B. Gardner

 

Just like the City it represents, the Museum of the City of New York is not afraid to make bold statements or address controversial topics. The complexities of life and culture in New York City can feel overwhelming and even unintelligible, but the museum manages to present the fullness of the culture in an ordered, intentional way. This is exemplified in Activist New York, a multimedia exhibition that documents the history of activism in NYC. But does this exhibit celebrate some movements only to invalidate others?

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ITF Post: How to add footnotes to your posts

After reading everyone’s latest posts, it occurred to me that there’s a simple way to add citations to your posts: the plugin FD Footnotes. I’ve activated FD Footnotes and now you can easily add footnotes to your posts.

Why is this important? 1. Published posts instantly appear more streamlined; 2. As a result, the reader focuses on your ideas and you’re still properly citing your sources. 3. Learning how to adapt academic writing conventions to digital formats develops your ability to write for different platforms and audiences.1

Read on for very easy instructions + screen recording that I made to show you how to do it!

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  1. Alexis Carrozza, ITF for your seminar. ↩
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Take our City? Fuggedaboutit!

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Article: Trump may have America, But the City is still Ours. by David Wallace-Wells.

 

This article speaks for a lot of New Yorkers the Night of the election and much of the emotion felt at the moment when the city realized Trump had won. This article written by David Wallace Wells is an excellent piece that represents a large portion of the NYC community over the course of the election. His piece is teeming with emotion on what exactly it means to be a New Yorker in the midst of all this tension that Trump had arisen. Wallace-Wells draws New Yorkers, reminding us of the things that bind us and the common sights we see. Wallace-Wells mentions metrocards and fruit stands, two extremely common things in NYC. Wallace Wells also talks about how the two objects, the fruit stand and metrocards have taken on a different meaning in the aftermath of the chaotic election. The objects have become a “talisman” as wells mentions, something that is common enough to bring a sense of familiarity when things all of a sudden seemed so foreign, so quickly over the course of a single night.

 

Another thing I particularly enjoyed was the unity of New Yorkers Wallace- Wells mentions again. How we stick up for one another as mentioned in his article “and that you shouldn’t intervene when two drug addicts are yelling at each other outside a Chinatown subway station but that you should when it’s one of them yelling at a Mexican woman to clear out of town”. New Yorkers, in particularly the city are joined together by we could say trauma, united by the suck. New Yorkers have weathered many disasters ( not taking away from any other state or country affected by such disasters), including, the disastrous Hurricane Sandy. This disaster of an election is just another scar on our back that we will brag to others to have survived. Compared to rising rent and metrocard prices, a faulty election is nothing. Let’s show the world what New Yorkers are made of.

 

Questions

Has anyone ever truly taken the city?

Will it even be possible given the huge amount of diversity?

Do you think these strong feelings dividing the city were always there or only manifested because of the election?

Do New Yorkers really say Fuggedaboutit really that often?

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Giving up our city? As if

Salvatore Fevola

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Trump May Have America, But the City is Still Ours

Author: David Wallace-Wells

In this emotional article, David Wallace-Wells sets up the tumultuous madhouse that New York is, through the depiction of the city after Trump had been elected. Focusing on the negative shock that most New Yorkers (over 80% of us) felt during the election night, he presents the city as if our bubble unexpectedly popped despite our belief in the power of  our “technocratic liberalism.” Yet in the madness that ensued after Trump’s “coronation,” people showed their unity making sure their fellow New Yorkers knew they would be there for them. Through the setting he created, Wells comes to the conclusion that despite Trump being office, the city will stay in the hands of the people living there and wont be changed by a shift in the person occupying the presidents seat. Continue reading “Giving up our city? As if”

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Is the City ours?

Response 2 of 5: “Trump May Have America, But the City Is Still Ours” by David Wallace-Wells

By: Mariam Esa

 

David Wallace-Wells begins the article by recalling the morning after the election- it was indeed a day of mourning. This made me recall memories of my own of that day. I remember being extra cautious on my walk to school, my eyes darting everywhere. I remember my teacher closing the lights and Continue reading “Is the City ours?”

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Emotions of the Election

Sam Gosda

Response 2 of 5: Trump May Have America, But the City is Still Ours

In this relatable article author David Wallace-Wells depicts the effects of the 2017 presidential election on New York City. He accurately describes the worries of the city and the nation. In the article, New York City is described as an asylum in both the context of a safe-haven and a mental institution. I could not in a million years think of a better word to describe it. Historical as well as current events were used to back up the description of the city and the grief being felt by its inhabitants upon the election of Donald Trump. Wallace-Wells used language that made me want to read more. I related to what was being written and the rhetoric made me agree with every point being made. The city would be both a moving force in the resistance against Trump as well as the reason a white supremacist could be elected into office in the first place. 

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Street Vendor Bias

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“Hot Dogs, Hipsters, and Xenophobia: Immigrant Street Food Vendors in New York”

For as long as immigrants have lived in New York City, street food vending has been many immigrants’ source of income. By selling cheap food that were from their homeland, immigrants are able to not only have a living, but also reminisce about their past. Although this seems profitable, many street vendors have experienced anti-immigrant bias through a multiple of different forms, such as laws and regulations, tickets and verbal attacks. Continue reading “Street Vendor Bias”