Upper East Side

Back in 2012, I started working a full time job on the Upper East Side, commuting from the Bronx to Manhattan every day. Hunter college neighborhood, situated in Manhattan’s upper eastside is quite different from the South Bronx neighborhood. Although both neighborhoods are similar in size and diversity, the socioeconomic composition is very different. The Upper East Side on one hand is famous for being one of the richest neighborhoods in New York. Consisting of the city’s major tourist attraction

The Upper East Side Lights in auditorium are dim; a loud, long car honk is heard from a distance Stage Manager: It’s just past midnight, streetlights illuminate the busy roads of the Upper East Side. Here you will find only the wealthy and affluent. Lazily walks to right stage, pointing backstage Round the corner here you have 5th Street, this is where Serena Van Der Woodsen lives. Speaking of which, bout 2 years ago she just up and left, no explanation no goodbye, just disappeared. Yesterday

Upper East Side vs East Harlem 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

follows Dan Humphrey, the so-called lonely boy and Brooklyn outsider, as he tries to fit in with the privileged teens who lead turbulent, exorbitant lives on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Gossip Girl has been a controversial show since it first aired. The Parents Television Council continually

Wednesday should look into writing another book “Primates Empty Nest of the Upper East Side” or “Life after Children of the Primates from the Upper Side” something like that. I worked as a young nurse in various nursing homes in Long Island, and what I saw going on in these places really shape my life toward raising kids. I think one good thing about my childhood

In Jane Jacobs’s acclaimed The Life and Death of Great American Cities, she intricately articulates urban blight and the ills of metropolitan society by addressing several binaries throughout the course of the text. One of the more culturally significant binaries that Jacobs relies on in her narrative is the effectively paradoxical relationship between diversity and homogeneity in urban environments at the time. In particular, beginning in Chapter 12 throughout Chapter 13, Jacobs is concerned greatly

Lady in Hiding “Will you take these earrings?” I ask, “They’re real diamonds, I’m sorry but I guess that’s all I have.” I look down at my Louboutin heels and Versace dress not believing that I’m giving away my diamond earrings for a thirty-dollar cab fare. “Are you sure this is the place miss?” the cabdriver, ask me looking from me to the old pawnshop in Maine that is in front of us. I shake my head yes grab my daughter Lemon and the two bags we have and go into the store. The smell of cigarette

with living in a big city, but she felt bullied! Just because he deposited a crazy sum of money didn’t mean he could treat people with insolence! While waiting, he took off his jacket, revealing a sleeveless shirt and a large, intricate tattoo on his upper left arm. Stephanie froze! Transfixed, as a memory flashed. Consequently, as her attention diverted, she realized too late he was speaking. With a shift, she met his eyes, “No Mr. Sokolov, we have not met before”. It was clear her stare unnerved him

One of my favorite places to be is the Omaha airport. I love the atmosphere it has, and the ease of everything there. Your every move is planned out for you. The airport is surrounded by a sea of shiny hot vehicles. The hot summer sun reflects off the windshields and headlights. People haul their enormous bags up the endless rows of cars to the shuttle station that is filled by a variety of people: business men and women, families, and students. They all patiently wait, baking in the heat, for the

Wonder by R.J. Palacio is a story about a ten year old fifth grader, August Pullman, who is born with a facial deformity. August starts school at Beecher Prep, a private school in upper Manhattan, after being homeschooled for the last five years. He struggles to make friends at first, but meets Summer Dawson and Jack Will, who become his friends. On Halloween, August dresses up in a “Bleeding Scream” costume when everybody at school is expecting him to dress up as Boba Fett. Not realizing it’s August