| Immigrants write NYC`s history
They were men and women with surnames like Rodriguez, Gonzalez and Rivera, and they came from cities like Puerto Plata, Guayaquil and La Habana, many to settle in New York. These hispanic surnames are among the thousands that appear in the Ellis Island database. While people who entered through Ellis Island are typically presented as only European, a closer glance reveals a significant immigration of Latinos in the early 1900`s, even of Puerto Ricans, who were made U.S. citizens in 1917. This week, as the city celebrates immigrant history, we contemplate the footprints of those Latino pioneers and honor generations of immigrants who have made New York a global capital. In the early 20th century, Caribbean tabaqueros, for example, brought traditions of empowering workers.
Connected by their grief
When a friend from university sent me news of a classmate's death last year, my first impulse was to log on to facebookbook.com to remind myself what the classmate looked like. I opened my facebook profile page and searched for his page. I discovered that he was listed as a “friend" of mine, but like most of the 264 “friends" that this phenomenal social networking website displays for me, he was really only an acquaintance. I looked at the top right corner of his profile for his personal stats: he was from Manhattan, 23 years old, heterosexual, prepped at Trinity School and was, of course, a member of the Princeton class of 2005. I scanned left and saw his profile picture, which featured fetchingly dishevelled hair, tanned cheeks and a background of a campus lawn. I clicked below to view pictures others had taken of him.
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Volunteers use chance to do 'Moore' for community
Following registration, members of the Diamond Gems dance team, football players and football Coach Al Golden geared people up for the work ahead.
"This was different than 1K [Help] for a Day because we were a lot more interactive, with the football players and such," Galeano said. "We also did a lot of advertisement on this through facebook, e-mail and posters."
"This was better planned than 1K," said Lamar Wallace, TSG community service co-chair. "We visited a lot more [recreation] centers this time, compared to before."One thing many students hope for in future events is more peer-to-peer involvement with residents of the community.
"One of the best ideas I can think of is to clean the community with the help of the community," said Nir Guy, a senior finance major.
Lennar's Virtual Reality
IRVINE, CALIF. -- When Lennar began plans for Irvine, Calif.'s Central Park West (CPW), a mixed-use, pedestrian-focused, urban master planned village, one of the challenges the home builder faced was how to show the public the 82 different floor plans for the 1,380 units. And then Mollie Carmichael, Lennar's vice president of marketing, came up with a solution that not only met this challenge but also enhances the buyer experience -- a theater room that features full-scale, virtual floor plan tours. Before construction for the development began, Lennar spent three months building the Lennar Home Store. Located just minutes from the building site, the company is using the Home Store to showcase the floor plans for the flats, lofts, townhomes, and apartments that are offered at CPW. The Lennar Home Store offers the typical sales features you would find in a show room--a scale model of the community, brochures of floor plans, a model of an apartment, and examples of kitchens and bathrooms.
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