Category: New York City

New York City is the spot that I have visited, returned to, and visited once more. Out there in the city, I feel free. We started our trip by traveling from Houston to New Jersey by airplane, then I traveled from New Jersey to New York by train. I could not tell too much difference…

My mom and I have always been super close. We do almost everything together, from going to the movies, out to eat, and to the gym. One of my favorite memories of us, however, was on her 50th birthday, when we spent an entire day exploring one of her favorite places together: New York City.…

Last year before my Grade 6 school year started, my family and I took a trip to the U.S.A. It was a trip my parents planned to give me before I entered middle school. Being from Dubai, I have exposed to aspects of a large city all my life, but Manhattan was a whole new…

New York City had come a long way since the dark days of crime in the late 80s and early 90s when it was called the murder capital of the United States. Today, It is common to hear in the news that NYC is the safest metropolis in the United States with a crime rate…

Water pollution is a significant decrease in water resources quality due to the ingress of various chemicals and solid waste into streams, rivers, lakes, seas, and oceans, or the multiplication of microscopic living organisms. The causes of water pollution are related to human activities. After observing the Drinking Water Supply and Quality Report 2018 and…

In early August 1997, reports surfaced of a police brutality scandal in New York City. Newspapers across the country reported that Abner Louima, a Haitian immigrant to the United States, was arrested on August 9, 1997, and brought to the station house of the 70th Precinct where New York City Police Department (NYPD) officers took…

The New York police department (NYPD) found themselves in a bind attempting to fight everyday crime; they desired to implement new ways to help combat this issue. A proactive policing tool, by the name of stop and frisk, was developed to assist these officers in doing so. Stop and frisk is a policy that allows…

Water pollution has become a significant concern because it adversely affects plants, humans, and animals. River pollution is caused by a wide variety of factors, but combined sewerage overflows (CSOs) are the main source of contamination in New York City Rivers (Wang 1373). Combined sewer systems are used to transport stormwater, domestic sewage, and industrial…