Old and rusty. A big box, it comes in different colors: green, black, and gray. The big box, with a man in it, overflows with merchandise varying from reading materials to fast snacks and soft drinks. Walking around New York City, one sees these big rusty boxes everywhere, or at least people used to. A quick stop for the many local and national newspapers, a refreshing brisk soft drink on a hot summer day, or even a candy bar and a pack of gum. It is a convenient place that one can just pass by and get what he or she needs without the hassle of a supermarket. If you stop by for the papers on your way to work or for a drink during your lunch break, usually a pleasant New York immigrant will greet you. The man in the box is generally delighted to assist you as fast as he can so that you can continue on your day without delay. New York City is fast-paced and the immigrants in the boxes try to maximize their service speed to accommodate New Yorkers’ requisites requests. At the same time, they are willing to have an interesting and elaborate conversation with you.
Have you figured out what this place is? It is a newsstand. New York has had many newsstands for a very long time, and they have been a part of New Yorkers’ everyday lives. Its convenience adds to the experience of New York. You can find newsstands not only on the sidewalks of the city but also in its subway stations, where they are more of a man in a hole in the wall, instead of a man in a box. Those underground newsstands tend to offer a faster service and you can also have a shopping experience if they are a bit bigger. Since you are in a subway station, they tend to be speedy due to the hurry of train riders since trains come and go.
Newsstands are distributers of infor...
... middle of paper ...
...e historic monuments since they have been through most of the history of New York. Getting rid of such symbolic element of the city tarnishes the city’s image. Not only would take away a symbolic image of New York’s landscape but also represents New York’s movement towards a drab and uninspired city.
Works Cited
Berliner, David C. "Knowledge Is Power." Equity & Excellence in Education 24.02 (1988). Print.
"Knowledge." Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com. Web. 03 May 2012.
Moss, Jeremiah. "Newsstands." Jeremiah's Vanishing New York. 26 Oct. 2011. Web.
Pearce, Lynn M. "SIC 2711Newspapers: Publishing, or Publishing and Printing." Encyclopedia of American Industries. 6th ed. Detroit, MI: Thomson/Gale, 2005. Print.
Pearce, Lynn M. "SIC 5994: News Dealers and Newsstands." Encyclopedia of American Industries. 6th ed. Detroit, MI: Thomson/Gale, 2005. Print.
Throughout the history of America, there has always been a influx of Jews from Europe. Even though Emma Lazarus wrote her poem after the massive immigration of German Jews to America, her poem can be used to describe the Jewish Immigrants. Many German Jews arrived in New York " tired ... poor... [and] yearning to breathe free." While New York City was still a hub for German Jewish immigrants, some had also moved to Atlanta and more Western states. Several of the German Jewish families who immigrated to America will forever have their names etched into her history, through their central role as entrepreneurs in America's expanding clothing industry. They began from humble careers and worked their way up the proverbial food chain. Once settled in, these German Jews knew they had to take advantage of their circumstances, past experiences and ability to "predict" the future in order to survive in the dog eat dog world of the Nineteenth Century. Although many of which did not have much startup capital, they managed to pay off their debts and move into the profit margin. For a job that can fabricate those results, many chose to become peddlers.
The original station had separate stairways for entering and exiting in a way. Although not much looks the same today, the mosaics on the walls are still there. ("28Th Street Subway Station (1) - Lost New England") . The 28th Street station was originally designed by George Lewis Heins and Christopher Grant LaFarge who gave those decorative identification plaques to the station; they were made of several pieces of ceramics that have adhered together. There are several remains of the original decoration of this station including the ID plaques and many round pillars with fluted tops and bottoms. Original IRT stations had entrance and exit kiosks but with the passage of time motorists began to find those great structures an obstruction to viewing traffic signals and stoplights, so they were phased out, with the last ones surviving until the late 1960s. A new entrance kiosk was built for the uptown Astor Place platform in the traffic island in the mid-1980s which could still be found at the Uptown 28th Street station. The new walls of the station that extended in the 1950s received IND-style mosaics with blue and gold color scheme contrast. Exteriorly the station is surrounded by beautiful historic buildings like Cathedral of Insurance Building and Madison Square Gardens. Most noteworthy entrance/exit of the station is from the New York Life's "Cathedral of Insurance" building with ornate iron signs Interborough Subway which lead to the breathtaking sea of polished brass architecture and two "SUBWAY" stanchions that appear at both staircases leading down to the station. The sign on the stanchions seems to be two barking dogs on either side of a flaming brazier and ceiling treatment with nine colored reliefs in red, gold and green. A chandelier hangs from the central tile. This treatment appears in front of each down staircase ("NYC's
Under Its first president International Paper established the first laboratory in the pulp and paper industry, as well as taking part in the industries first collective bargaining agreement and the implementation of a progressive timber harvesting system that protected young trees. Even still the company’s newsprint business was hit hard by a decision made by Congress to remove tariffs on Canadian imports. The passage of the Revenue Act of 1913 flooded the market w...
Every culture left a mark of its quality on New York’s buildings that change over time: some are old, some are new, some are tall, and some are small. They might have a lot in common, but not one building is like the other. Diversity is what makes New York.
“Extra, extra, read all about it!” Almost everyone has seen the classic image of a newsboy hawking headlines in film and television but few know any history of these kids. Newsboys were young boys and, occasionally, girls who ranged from children to young teens, most of whom were runaways or orphans. These kids would buy papers from the publishers then walk the streets hawking headlines and selling papers. In July of 1899, a group of New York newsboys, dubbed newsies at the time, protested two of the most popular New York papers, the World and the Journal. This strike, caused by a high price for papers, affected the newsies, the papers, and the citizens of New York.
America’s history-both good and bad-has much to teach us. Taking down, destroying these monuments is erasing, rewriting the physical symbols of the nation. This type of cultural whitewashing is inglorious. We can treat these monuments as a cautionary tool to remind ourselves what we are and what we are not. The cost forebears paid for the freedom of the nation should be remembered; therefore, people should retain these statues to remind of themselves what these monuments represent.
The golden sun set over the horizon, kissing the peak of the empire state as if they hadn’t met in centuries. The fading sunlight tuned the water bronze as Lady Liberty’s torch lit aflame. The Hudson at this time was paradise on Earth. Few people were walking on the cobblestone ground, looking over the copper railing to see America’s prize of freedom. This is New York City, the Empire State. It is also home to one of the most vile and forgotten artifacts. The artifact that ruined lives. The artifact that drove many to insanity. The artifact which was burned and thrown to the bottom of this very lake.
Siebert, Fred et al. (1956). Four Theories of the Press. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
When you associate anything with New York City it is usually the extraordinary buildings that pierce the sky or the congested sidewalks with people desperate to shop in the famous stores in which celebrities dwell. Even with my short visit there I found myself lost within the Big Apple. The voices of the never-ending attractions call out and envelop you in their awe. The streets are filled with an atmosphere that is like a young child on a shopping spree in a candy store. Although your feet swelter from the continuous walking, you find yourself pressing on with the yearning to discover the 'New York Experience'.
Information Technology has revolutionised the way through which people access information. Chen’s article, “Newspapers fold as readers defect and economy sours” shows this by detailing the collapse of the newspaper industry and its replacement by online news. Prior to the widespread availability of the internet, consumers were forced to rely on newspapers and television to find out the news of the world. These comparatively old medias are offered to the public on a delay due to the process of printing and production. However, the internet now offers news and information to these same people, free of charge and on demand.
The coffee shop I decided to do my observation was the well known Starbucks just a couple blocks away. The reason I chose this coffee shop was because of it 's style inside, it attracted me. For example, one side of the wall has a glass top, and the lower part of the wall, made of wood and painted in a bright red color, which was one thing that attracted me and stood out. Outside of the shop people can actually see through the glass wall and get to see what’s happening inside of the coffeeshop. By the entrance you see these two red ceiling lamps which were shaped in a flower bud and these two tall green plants. Once you were in, on the right of the shop there was a counter with food and things to put in your drinks such as milk, sugar, chocolate, etc and the colors and how the food was displayed and served was appealing to my eyes. Behind that counter there was a long table with different electronic devices plugged into the wall. On the middle of the those there is a fridge just for ice and when I turned to the other side and I noticed a big menu on the wall. Further more into the shop, there was an area filled with tables, chairs, and sofas. The tables were in different shapes, one was round and the others rectangular, also there was four bamboo baskets and I looked around and noticed that the walls in that area were decorated with paintings.
New York City is an interesting and unusual city. My first day here, I could not imagine ever living in this city. The pace was too quick for me and I found everything overwhelming. I could not imagine how one city can be so different. Some parts like Times Square makes you fall in love with the city because it is beautiful. While other parts, like the subway makes you want to run away. But one thing I have learned it not just the sight of this city but also it’s the combination of all these things that makes New York City what it is. After living here for four years, I can’t imagine being anywhere else. Today, I can walk on Times Square without bumping into people. It seems like I too have the learned the secret rule. But it is not something I can tell or show anyone, it is just a thing you learn after living in Ne
Newsprint used to be International Paper’s main product, but it is no longer produced by that company since it was so unprofitable (‘A Short History of”, 1998). Very few companies manufacture newsprint anymore due to the fact that most people get their news via radio, television, and various other internet sources. Emails and social media posts have all but replaced Christmas, birthday, and get-well cards. Magazines are read online, Christmas catalogs have been replaced by online sales, and the vast majority of our junk mail has been transformed into spam in our email boxes. Corrugated and cardboard boxes have been replaced by plastic “clamshells”. Even our government has gotten into the act of reducing paper by forcing the use of electronic health records in the 2010 Affordable Care Act (“Key Features of the”, 2015). Because paper products are used in so many different applications, there is virtually no end to the substitute products which are
The newspaper industry presaged its decline after the introduction of the television and televised broadcasting in the 1950s and then after the emergence of the internet to the public in the 1990s and the 21st century with its myriad of media choices for people. Since then the readership of printed media has declined whilst digital numbers continue to climb. This is mostly due to television and the internet being able to offer immediate information to viewers and breaking news stories, in a more visually stimulating way with sound, moving images and video. Newspapers are confined to paper and ink and are not considered as ‘alive’ as these other mediums.
According to Tereso Tullao Jr and Raymund Habaradas’ (2001) research about Castillo’s (1999) Printing and Publishing, the customers of the printing industry are considered its “market”. Castillo (1999) breaks down these markets into three categories. Firstly, Castillo noted that the print media is responsible for providing reading materials for the public. These reading materials in forms of news and journals provide useful information to professionals and students. Secondly, the print media serves as the bridge of institutions to attain “credible” and useful information. The print industry facilitates communication that eventually change their market’s decisions. One example of this is advertising. The print media’s market are those institutions who wants their products or data to be advertised for the public to see it. Lastly, the industry organizes documents for