For my neighborhood paper, I am focusing on the evolution of East Harlem, primarily on how the Hispanic population has become a major facet of this community.  However, my story pitch is about a Haitian immigrant just across the water in Queens.  Christina Bien-Aime is a 20 year old student at the CCNY Spitzer School of Architecture.  She is currently living with an aunt so that she may gain a quality education and fulfill her dream of becoming an architect, all while the rest of her family back in Haiti.  It’s a really inspiring and heart-wrenching story and is, I think, a paradigm of the “NY Dream” in the city’s immigrant youth today.