Causes And Consequences Of The Death Of Brooklyn

The purpose for writing this essay is to demonstrate how gentrification is shaping the Culture and identity for Halrmites from the socio-economic perspective. Harlem has changed dramatically over the last two decades due to improvement in housing stock and outside investments into the community. However, in my essay, I articulated my ideas toward the economic aspect of gentrification because gentrification is driven by class, not race. My audience would be the lower income Harlem residents who have been displaced or on the verge of displacement because their wealth is not contributing to the economy. The people who have been preserving the cultural identity of Harlem for decades now forced to leave the community. I tried my best to connect a broader audience by explaining the deteriorated housing condition of Harlem and how it led to gentrification. This will help reader

The Upper East Side, zip code 10028, and East Harlem, zip code 10035 are two very different neighborhoods. Overall health varies between The Upper East Side and East Harlem because of differences in social determinants such as socioeconomic status, education, and environment. More specifically, East Harlem has the highest percentage of hospitalizations due to asthma when comparing neighborhoods in NYC.1 Using my observations from doing fieldwork, I will focus on the structural differences in The Upper East Side and East Harlem that result in differences in asthma prevalence.

Washington Heights is a unique and ever changing neighborhood at the mezzo-level, but affects the macro and micro. It located in upper Manhattan that is north of Harlem and south of Inwood. Begins on 115th street, it is typically thought to end around Hillside Avenue. This neighborhood has the Hudson River on the west and the Harlem River to the east. New York City’s Community Planning has designated Washington Heights and Inwood as Manhattan Community District 12. These two communities are similar in their ethnic populations, make up the tip of the borough of Manhattan, and are often assessed by the government as one district. The 2003 New York City Community Health Profile reported that 270,677 people living in District 12 and “one in two

First and foremost, South-Central Brooklyn is one of the most overpopulated community within Brooklyn, it is extremely diverse with many rich cultures and traditions. Within it, lies seven neighborhoods which are Flatbush, Borough Park, Ditmas Park, Midwood, Kensington, Manhattan Terrance, and Prospect Park South. It serves Community Districts 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 17. It mostly consists of densely populated African American, Hispanic and West Indian neighborhoods. According to the 2015 U.S census bureau, the population of Brooklyn stands at 2,504,700 out of which South-Central Brooklyn has approximately 804,982 residents and it is expected to have grown gradually through the one year-period that has elapsed (United States Census Bureau, 2014). This is more than double the amount of the total number of people that was living in South- Central Brooklyn in 2000, which was only 317, 300. Presently there are 37% Caucasians, 36% African American, 16% Hispanic, 10% Asian, and 2% other (Indian) living in South-Central Brooklyn. The female population is 54.6%, and the male population is 45.4% (United States Census Bureau, 2014).

In the empirical article, “Black Philly after the Philadelphia Negro,” Marcus Anthony Hunter examines the once populated Seventh Ward and the effects that political neglect and racial barriers had on this primarily black area, which ultimately led to its urban decay. Similarly, in recent years, we see this occurring in Vesterbro, Copenhagen. However, we notice how the neglect towards Vesterbro stems from other factors such as immigration, crime, and a poor economy. Hunter examined the archives of the Seventh Ward, specifically after W.E.B. Du Bois’ initial study of the Seventh Ward. From the 1920s through the 1940s, Hunter found that the poor living conditions did not improve. Instead, they were constant, suggesting that Republican politicians neglected this black area. “This period also offers a historical window into the shifting allegiances of black Americans, and their retreat from the Republican Party and embrace of the Democratic Party” (Hunter). Hunter claimed that the shift in

It becomes a problem when people have to work two job to support their family or themselves.

Oates, Stephen B. The Fires of Jubilee, New York: Harper & Row, 1975 Stephen Oates, in a arresting storytelling fashion, captures the desires and anxieties of the aboriginal to mid 19th century, with The Fires of Jubilee. Oates has performed authentic abstraction to present an authentic assuming of a alluring and abstruse man, who lived during an amazing aeon in American history. Oates begins the book with a absolute adventures of Turner. He makes a absolute accomplishment to appearance what advance a man to accomplish the accomplishments he did. Nat was built-in on October 17, 1800 in Southampton County, Virginia. His mother Nancy was brought to America in 1795. The man who purchased her was Benjamin Turner, a affluent tidewater planter. Nancy affiliated a bondservant whose name is not known, and gave bearing to Nat. Interestingly she approved to annihilate Nat rather afresh see him abound up to be a slave. By the time he was four or 5 years old, humans started to apprehend that there was something actual appropriate about Nat. He could anamnesis things that had happened afore he was born. Nat 's parents were actual appreciative of him and apparent aberrant appearance on his arch and back. African fable captivated that a macho with such arrangement would abound up to be a leader. He intelligence becoming the account of added disciplinarian as well. One time he was accustomed a book by addition slave. Amazingly he knew how to apprehend it. No one knows who accomplished Nat

Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson today proclaimed that a Flatbush teenager has been prosecuted for murder and affiliated charges coming from the lethal shooting of a 38 year old father who was trying to retrieve his son's baseball cap supposedly stolen a few days prior to the shooting.

Smoking is one major health concern for adults living on the south shore of Annadale, Staten Island. According to the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (2006), death

Comparing the rates between Southern Park Heights and Baltimore City, Souther Park Heights has a lower life expectancy rate, a higher percentage of avertable deaths, heart disease, stroke, HIV/AIDS, homicide, and blood poisoning. Avertable deaths is a huge glaring health outcome because these are the deaths that would have been avoided if the neighborhoods had the same opportunity in health benefits that other do. The avertable deaths in Southern Park Heights was 50.9% which was significantly greater than the 36.1% in Baltimore City, this shows that Baltimore City provides better health benefits than in Southern Park Heights. Life expectancy is a health outcome, the life expectancy rate is only 66.7 in Southern Park Heights, in Baltimore City the life expectancy rate is 71.8. The cancer rate in Baltimore City is higher than Souther Park Heights overall but there is a higher percentage of lung cancer in Southern Park Heights at 7.2% compared to 6.3% in Baltimore City. In the neighborhood chosen, the numbers show that the people in Southern Park Heights are worse off than they are in

The term Gentrification was coined by a British Sociologist Ruth Glass to describe the movement of middle class families in urban areas causing the property value to increase and displacing the older settlers. Over the past decades, gentrification has been refined depending on the neighborhood 's economic, social and political context. According to Davidson and Less’ definition, a gentrified area should include investment in capital, social upgrading, displacement of older settlers and change in the landscape (Davidson and Lees, 2005).Gentrification was perceived to be a residential process, however in the recent years, it has become a broader topic, involving the restructuring of inner cities, commercial development and improvement of facilities in the inner city neighborhoods. Many urban cities like Chicago, Michigan and Boston have experienced gentrification, however, it is affecting the Harlem residents more profoundly, uprooting the people who have been living there for decades, thus destroying the cultural identity of the historic neighborhood.

Our next adventure was Brooklyn, NY. Although this borough was just a 20-minute train ride away I never really had many opportunities to visit it. I was excited to visit the borough because growing up I always heard that it had the best food in all of New York City. The borough is also known as Kings County and is home to nearly three million people. This makes Brooklyn the second most populous boroughs in New York. It is said that if the Borough were an independent city it would be the third most populous city in the U.S. (191).

Asthma is a major health problem

In the novel Brooklyn the definition of home is challenged, Toibin compares a home where there is familial simplicity and ease (Ireland), one with daring heights and chances (Brooklyn, New York) and Irishness. Eve Walsh Stoddard defines Irishness as “Irish by ancestry, a member of the diaspora”(167). Toibin exemplifies how those two representations of home conflict with Eilis’ “Irishness” of that time period. Personally, I would define home as a place where you are wanted. Eilis was put into diaspora initially because of the lack of career opportunities in Ireland. She had to immigrate to Brooklyn, New York, in search of greener pastures. Eilis was moved to this with the

Washington Roebling started the construction of towers in late 1872 after the completion of the foundations. The two towers were made by stone masonry which were provided by Quarries of J.R. Bodwell, Hallowell, Maine. The two towers were designed to be high and bulky, which both supports the enormous weight of the roadway and cables. The deck and the towers were high so they will not interfere with the traffic on the river. The mass of the anchorages has to be sufficient to hold the tension of the cables. As a result, the towers had to be able to sustain the colossal downward pressure of the cables. The Brooklyn and Manhattan towers were completed in June 1875 and July 1876 , after three years of construction. (Y L Cheng, 2007)