Essays on New York City

The 1972 New York subway map created by Massimo Vignelli is seen as a masterpiece now but a disaster during the 1970s. Vignelli was certain in making a useful map by stressing visual clarity over geographical precisions but ended up creating hatred and confusion. In…

Imagine walking down a crowded street in a big city, with people on every side of you. You look to your right and left and see some of the biggest department stores in the country. You hear a loud noise and look behind, only to…

Perhaps it is not the very first location which jumps into the head for a family journey, but in case the kids are teenagers, pre-teenagers, preteens or teenagers, they’ll certainly be delighted with this particular vacation. New York is a community where everyone can feel…

You’re most likely more quick witted than you might suspect you are, whether you only from time to time accept you’re savvy by any means. In 2012, Jonah Lehrer composed for The New Yorker that the attributes that incorporate what we consider to be “adroitness”…

The 1972 New York subway map created by Massimo Vignelli is seen as a masterpiece now but a disaster during the 1970s. Vignelli was certain in making a useful map by stressing visual clarity over geographical precisions but ended up creating hatred and confusion. This…

The disastrous events of 9/11 have helped shape the world into what it is today. During the fateful morning of September 11th, 2001, the American Airlines Flight 11 aircraft was hijacked in a terrorist attack on the Twin Towers, and The Pentagon in New York…

One evidently leading to peace, stability, and tradition, and the other to anarchy, uncertainty, and grief. The path you fixate upon is a right god has granted to man, the right to makes ones’ own decision. But brothers contemplate your judgments closely. For at the…

New York is the most populous city in the United States. With an estimated 2016 population of 8,537,673distributed over a land area of about 302.6 square miles (784 km2), New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the United States, located…

Staten Island is always put in the shadows and disregarded as a borough of New York City. Kevin Walsh, author of the article “Workin’ at the Car Wash: Rossville’s Tombstones and Tract Houses,” points out how Staten Island doesn’t fit the standards of New York…

Three geographic factors that have led to the development and growth of New York City are the low elevation areas, coastal lying areas (bodies of water such as the Atlantic Ocean, Hudson River, Mohawk River, Genesee River, Lake Ontario, Lake Erie, Lake Champlain, and Lake…