Each borough has individual neighborhoods -- some of only a few blocks in size -- that have personalities lauded in music and movies. Where you live‚ work and play in New York says something to New Yorkers about who you are. The five boroughs are: Brooklyn Queens The Bronx Staten Island Manhattan Most people think of Manhattan when they think of New York City‚ also known as The City. New York City is actually spread across five different counties - one borough per county. The island of Manhattan is
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Philadelphia‚ Here I Come is set in Ballybeg‚ a small town in Donegal‚ in the heart of rural Ireland. It is a quintessential small town community‚ very close‚ introverted with an air of inescapable predestination. A View From the Bridge is set in Red hook‚ Brooklyn‚ a tough impoverished area of New York‚ home to immigrants and the masculine culture of the longshoremen. Red hook is similar to Ballybeg in the sense that it too appears to have sense of inescapability and a predestined future‚ which is due to the
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What is Urban renewal? Discuss the issues and strategies of urban renewal of a state capital. Urban renewal is a program of land re-development in areas of moderate to high density urban land use. It can be envisaged as the physical and infrastructural changes in land use‚ built environment or intensity of the use of land or building that could be considered as inevitable outcome of the action from economic‚ social‚ political‚ technical and environmental forces acting upon urban areas at different
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Gentrification has been known to be detrimental and good depending on how someone sees it. People‚ mostly the higher class‚ have been gentrifying communities for years. Although some people believe gentrification creates more progress than problems‚ it becomes inimical to poor residents and possibly cause more disagreement between ethnic groups. Gentrification has been seen from both perspectives; however‚ more often people read the destructive part of gentrification. Some people believe gentrification
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was sent to live on her grandmother ’s farm in Barbados. She attended British grammar school and picked up the Caribbean accent that marked her speech. Shirley moved back to New York in 1934 at the age of 11 and went on to graduate in 1946 from Brooklyn College with honors later earning a masters degree from Columbia University. During this time it was difficult for black college graduates to find jobs. After being rejected by many companies‚ she obtained a job at the Mt.Calvary childcare center
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liberal thinker‚ he knew and admired Thomas Paine. Trained as a carpenter but struggling to find work‚ he had taken up farming by the time Wa lt was born‚ but when Walt was just about to turn four‚ Walter Sr. moved the family to the growing city of Brooklyn‚ across from New York City‚ or "Mannahatta" as Whitman would come to call it in his celebratory writings about the city that was just emerg ing as the nation’s major urban center. One of Walt’s favorite stories about his childhood concerned the time
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Gentrification is defined by Merriam Webster dictionary as‚ “the process of renewal and rebuilding accompanying the influx of middle class or affluent people into deteriorating areas that often displaces poorer residents.” One such “gentrification” incident happened in the middle of the 19th century with New York’s Central park. An area once called Seneca Village was home
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Gentrification is a problem because lower-income families get pushed out of their homes; additionally‚ economically speaking this means that family-owned businesses go bankrupt or get pushed out by franchises. Gentrification is about buying property and making it bigger to get higher income. It’s the renovation of business‚ houses and markets that wealthy people can afford. Wealthy communities are the ones taking over the middle class property and making them relocated and making them find something
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