New York City Construction

With little money in their pockets and no idea of where they might stay, the search for jobs was desperate. However having thousands of immigrants arriving in NYC around the same time caused job opportunities to be limited. With no money, many were left homeless with no place to go but the streets of New York. Having people living on the streets caused overpopulation of the city and left the city dirty and dismantled. Along with the fall of the city the crime rate began to increase dramaticlly due to immigrants going to desperate measures to make money. When an immigrant was lucky enough to find a job they faced the challenge of language barrier, poor working conditions and low wages. These low wages could hardly afford to feed their families let alone provide a decent shelter. This created what would be known as the slums of New York City. The city was being filled with large apartment buildings that were run down and overpopulated with immigrants. Over population began creating conflicts between different ethnic groups throughout New York City. Eventually leading to the divison of the city into sections based on common ethnic backrounds. Nativism however would be a common problem as it increased because of hatred towards immigrants over such issues including the loss of opportunities for already settled natives to the area. To avoid this hatred many immigrants chose to take on other names or alter their own last name. Due to many families

In thirty-five years the city of New York went from less then a hundred thousand people to at least harbor a half a million souls, in

Surprisingly it was the latter, that NYC adopted first. There are several important reasons for this. First, NYC merchants, fearing that if the south formed a new nation, it would lower its tariffs and make NYC's ports obsolete. There was a great fear that New Orleans, not NYC, would be the major port city to the continent, and would control all imports heading to the vast lands west of the Mississippi river and all cotton exports. NYC's dominance of goods imported and exported had lasted for almost 200 years, and many feared it would be over.

Construction on The Empire State Building began on October 1, 1929 just a few weeks before the biggest stock market crash in United States history. On September 9, 1930, Al Smith the former Governor of New York, marked the spot of the cornerstone of what would become the worlds tallest and the century’s best building. That day Smith gave a speech to a crowd of over five thousand, which included mostly workers in hopes of a job on the upcoming project. The Empire State Building opened its doors just eight months later on Friday, May 1, 1931. For a country in midst of a great depression The Empire State Building was a symbol of hope in dark times and showed that Americans would persevere even in a

The New York City Subway System has an extremely rich and detailed history that dates to the late nineteenth century. Before the system that the public currently takes advantage of when they visit New York City, there were an extensive amount of public transportation options that were available to the general public. For example, horse and carriages, omnibuses, and trolley systems were all used as a means of transportation throughout the nineteenth century. Once the idea for a subway system to be built was introduced, most people did not believe that it was possible. However, they were soon proven wrong after Alfred E. Beach secretly built the first subway system that was used in New York City. Once people saw that subterranean travel was a viable means of transportation, it did not take long until the subway system that is used today to come along. The New York City subway system revolutionized the way the general public traveled throughout the city, and inspired other growing cities to build subterranean travel systems of their own.

In the film “New York, New York: Power and the People”, the filmmaker Ric Burns tells the story of the changed that had occurred in New York. According to Ric Burns, over 10 million immigrants came into New York and big changes stared to happened. For example, when the immigrant arrived to New York the emerge of skyscraper began and immigrant were the main constructers of those tall buildings. Of course, with the help of the new arrival technology, steal and electric elevator made the construction of this buildings possible. Also, another big change that occurred because of the arrival of the immigrants was the consolidation of the City. Since people where leaving in crowds they decided to spread, however, most of the jobs were in the Lower

Because of New York city’s trade ties to the south, there were numerous southern sympathizers early in the American Civil War. They were very far away from any of the civil war battles but New York sent the most men and money in the battles. New York helped make the Industrial age and as a consequence had some of the first Labor Unions. New York started to become the main point of entry for European immigrants to the US, it started with a wave of Irish during the Great Famine, millions came through Castle Clinton and Battery Park before Ellis Island opened in 1892 to welcome millions more, increasingly from eastern and southern Europe. The Statue of Liberty opened in 1886 and became a symbol of hope. New York boomed during the roaring twenties before the crash of the and Skyscrapers showed the energy of New York, it was the site of the tallest buildings in the world from 1912 through 1974. The build up of Defense industries for WW2 turned around the economy for New York or really the Country from the Great Depression, while hundreds of thousands of people worked to defeat the Axis

5. In 1900 [year], the geographic form of the American city was most strongly shaped by:

New York City is the largest and one of the oldest cities in the United States, having been 'rediscovered' by Henry Hudson in 1609 while working for the Dutch East Indies Company. New Amsterdam, as it was then known, was settled in 1614 by Dutch fur traders and became the most important port in America. (Reed, 2011) The two rivers flowing on each side of Manhattan grant easy access to the ocean, and Henry Hudson remarked that the harbor was the best natural harbor he had ever seen in the world. For hundreds of years the city has been at the epicenter of world trade, and immigration to the new world. Millions of immigrants have filled the streets of New York, from Europe, Africa, South America, Asia, and elsewhere.

New York is known as the city that never sleeps, the Big Apple, and the escape plan for almost all the dreamers out there. While you’re here, we've got 11 places you need to visit before you venture off into the sunset.

New York is the 11th state in the United States of America. A French named Peter Minuit bought Manhattan Island (an island in New York) from the Indians in 1624. Many years later he surrendered the state to the English in 1664. On July 9, 1776 New York finally became an independent state. New York approved the United States Constitution on July 26, 1788.

As the cities of New York grew rapidly through the advancement of industrialization and urbanization, the wealthier exploited the many immigrants settling in. Rapid urbanization made life for immigrants challenging because of the cheap and poor constructions of the tenements, and as well as overcrowding.

During the fifty years of transformation, the evolution of transportation helped evolved the city from the small port city to the city it is today.In the early 1800s, Boston was described as a “walking city.” At this time Boston was less than two miles in radius. Communication in person and walking were

When you mention New York to anyone, they automatically think about Times Square. This beautiful place with skyscrapers, Central Park, and a unique transportation system. However, if you were to ask me what I think about New York; I believe the skyscrapers block the sun, Central park is just a regular park for dogs, and the subway trains rarely run consistently especially in the mornings. I have lived in New York for 18 years, and I have yet to understand what everyone likes about the “ Big Red Apple.”

Who is responsible for post war economic rebuild? That is the question that “End and Beginning” poses to the reader. The victor is usually the responsible party for cleanup and rebuilding. The first line of the poem portrays to the reader that someone must do it, “After each war somebody has to clear up put things in order by itself it won’t happen.” (Szymborska 690) What if the victor is an outside influence that has no intention of staying? The answer is the liberated country is responsible for its own reconstruction, but the outside country is responsible for assisting until that aid is no longer desired.