Essays on New York City

New York City is a beautiful city that can be described as a whole pie and not just a piece of it. Be it the endless entertainment from Broadway shows to shopping and the best part is the lifestyle that the city allows. Let us...

I have always liked New York City! The bright lights, the endless noise, the frantic walking through its overpopulated, concrete jungle while being looked down-upon by cold, towering skyscrapers have always amused me. We have spent quite a few summers, here, in the past, bunking...

One of the biggest rivalries in the stock marketplace fairly exists between the two New York-based stock exchanges and two of the largest exchanges in the world for that matter. The New York Stock Exchange or NYSE is the oldest stock exchange in the world....

New York City New York City is a city geographically located on coordinates 40°40.2’N and 73°56.4’W. It is considered as metropolitan city occupying over 304 square miles with a population of over 8 million inhabitants where the majority are immigrants from different parts of the...

New York City is the center of America and the second most populated city in current day but has been the first in the past. First, a place that you could visit in New York City is the Empire State Building to have a great...

The sight of a roomful of modern New York City fifth graders graciously going through the classes of traditional ballroom dancing the foxtrot, the rumba, even the sultry tango has a certain good incongruity. Especially with their 97% poverty rate in those schools. Yet still,...

New York City is currently the most linguistically rich location on earth, with 800 different languages, but is also the place, or “graveyard”, where many languages go to die. Around the world, many languages—especially those of the indigenous—are becoming extinct because of the superior advantages...

“Sonny’s Blues” is set in Harlem, a historically African American neighborhood in New York City. Despite the cultural revival known as the Harlem Renaissance, which bloomed in the 1920s, the neighborhood remained impoverished and oppressed in the 1950s when “Sonny’s Blues” takes place. It plays...

Sitting on the corner of 34th and 5th streets on about two acres of land sits one of mans greatest engineering feats, the granddaddy of all modern skyscrapers, the Empire State building. Standing 1453 feet tall and having 102 stories above the ground is the...

Metropolitan Museum of Art Looking Assignment The Louvre’s exhibition of French Romantic painter Eugene Delacroix has arrived in the United States. It opened in September at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art and will stay until January. The exhibition has the ability to bring...

Is the Faith Really Kept? With the lead in of “a priest and a rabbi” it’s hard not to anticipate a punchline with a least a little prejudice. Keeping the Faith explores the role of multiculturalism in the contemporary urban setting of New York. On...

The New York subway, one of the bustling subways in the world always came to a serious impediment when it came to communicating information between the underground and above ground police personnel. The officers in the transit police stationed above ground were unable to communicate...

Time Square is an iconic landmark in New York and one of the busiest tourist attractions in the world, with a 39 million visitors every day, located in the hearth of Manhattan, stretches from West 42nd to West 47th Streets. It is a major commercial...

When people mentioned about Chinese food and culture, Chinatown is the place they will mention as well. There are so many kinds of stores and restaurants which they can explore and find some interesting things. Nowadays, there are three main areas which also called enclaves...

Introduction The meaning of home may vary from person to person. Some may say that home is where we grow up, and some may say that home is the home of a family. However, in an unfamiliar country, our family is far away from us....

At the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, there is a sizeable collection of ancient Egyptian art. There are many sculptures, statues, pieces of pottery, and paintings that capture and convey the unique, spiritual culture of the time period. One piece in particular,...