New York City Subway

Although Rudy Giuliani, mayor of New York City in the 1990s, is most frequently credited with starting that city’s application of the broken windows theory, his predecessor, David Dinkin, truly began its use. He hired 8,000 new officers, as well as a new police commissioner, and began the move towards broken windows and community policing (Business Insider). Additionally, while it is true that New York’s crime rates have dropped in the past few decades, the reasons behind this are unclear.…

It is firstly interesting to see that the polyphony of characters within Let the Great World Spin works perfectly for a description of the landscape of 1970s New York and this view is supported by Michael Lukas when he describes them as a “collection of conflicting voices” Within an urban landscape we are often interdependent on those around us and McCann explores this idea by having all the main narrators connected to each other in a Guare-esque six degrees of separation way. McCann allows an…

New York City sparkles on the shore of the Atlantic Ocean. The season of winter had swallowed much of the city with white plush snow. People paced through the city who were running late each one needing to go to a different place the next one. Subway took off one after another traveling through underground New York. Store fastening sale signs to every window hoping to rack in a few more sale before the New Year. The city, which seems to never sleep, is like a beehive each person representing a…

I used to believe that your first time in New York City was the perfect opportunity to be whomever you want, eat whatever you want, and see whatever you want. I imagined my first experiences in the city that never sleeps to be something Carrie Bradshaw would write about and Serena Van Der Woodsen would be proud of. I pictured myself hailing taxis by doing that cool whistling thing with my fingers and eating at restaurants with only the finest of cuisines. I dreamed about strutting down Madison…

lettering combined with images and icons from a popular culture to create a complex composition. Graffiti art was connected with the hip-hop culture, which included rap music, break dancing, and disc jockeys. This culture attracted a lot of attention in New York magazines, movies, and films like the movie “Break In” which helped the society have a better understanding of this culture. Many graffiti artists became very well known at the time. Hip-hop had become accepted in the United States and…

She was a southern belle who easily integrated into the fasted pace life of a New Yorker. She moved to New York at a later point in her life, but that never seemed to slow her down. She was the epitome of sophistication, brilliance, and commitment. To me, she represented everything a woman ought to be. I was eight when I went to visit my grandmother in New York City for the first time. I saw then that this city changed her life and I knew it was beginning to change mine. My cautious mother…

one would you choose: city life or country life? Some people think that living in the city is more advantageous financially and for a successful career. However, others insist that living in the country is more of a less stressful, more adventurous place to live. In this essay; I will be comparing and contrasting the advantages and disadvantages of living in either the city or country in terms of the entertainment, physical condition, food, and the people within both the city and the country. As…

not everything disappears forever just like Holden believes in. However, this idea is not what Whitehead experiences when he sees New York. He establishes the point that no matter how much one tries, “Go back to your haunts in your old neighborhoods and…you find: they remain and have disappeared” (Whitehead 1026). In fact, Whitehead clearly accepts the fact that New York is constantly changing, unlike Holden who denies change. For example, Holden even admits that he can live a life with the same…

since I had been in New York City. I forgot the fast-paced world, the capricious j-walking, the unique styles, everything really. Even though i grew up in the area, it seemed so distant, as if it molded around itself and evolved into a world that could not be identified. Upon being accepted into an Urban Case Studies summer program from Columbia University, I packed my luggage, boarded on the plane from SAN to JFK Airport. What i experienced during my month in New York City is something so…

In the 1990s then mayor of New York City Rudy Giuliani pushed the broken windows theory of crime control and made changes to the police departments accordingly. However, David Dinkin, who was mayor before Giuliani, was truly the one who began this method of policing. He hired 8,000 new officers and a new police commissioner. (Business Insider) While it is true that New York’s crime rates have dropped in the past few decades, the reasons behind this are unclear. Broken windows methods also raise…