ORPHAN TRAINS

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 83 (3) ◽  
pp. A32-A32
Author(s):  
Student
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
13Th Century ◽  
To Come

What were these children like, these waifs who hustled New York City streets or lived in squalid orphanages with names like Home for the Friendless? What was it like to have been one of the more than 100,000 urban ragamuffins scooped up, put on trains and shipped to strange new lives on Midwestern farms [in] an exceedingly ambitious child-aid operation, the Orphan Trains. Starting in 1854 and continuing for the next 75 years, the Children's Aid Society, later joined by other agencies, took whole trainloads of children from vermin-infested city slums to new tomorrows in the heartland. The first participants and the majority of those to come later were from New York. Once arrived, they were lined up to be picked over by townspeople. Younger ones were adopted by families; older ones taken in and educated in return for work, and the unchosen shipped to the next town. One historian observed that not since the Children's Crusade in the 13th century had there been such a movement of children over such vast distances.

ORPHAN TRAINS

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 83 (5) ◽  
pp. A63-A63
Author(s):  
Student
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
13Th Century ◽  
To Come

What were these children like, these waifs who hustled New York City streets or lived in squalid orphanages with names like Home for the Friendless? What was it like to have been one of the more than 100,000 urban ragamuffins scooped up, put on trains and shipped to strange new lives on Midwestern farms [in] an exceedingly ambitious child-aid operation, the Orphan Trains. Starting in 1854 and continuing for the next 75 years, the Children's Aid Society, later joined by other agencies, took whole trainloads of children from vermin-infested city slums to new tomorrows in the heartland. The first participants and the majority of those to come later were from New York. Once arrived, they were lined up to be picked over by townspeople. Younger ones were adopted by families; older ones taken in and educated in return for work, and the unchosen shipped to the next town. One historian observed that not since the Children's Crusade in the 13th century had there been such a movement of children over such vast distances.

“It is rather sickly here”

2020 ◽  
pp. 157-168
Author(s):  
Charles D. Ross
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Yellow Fever ◽  
York City ◽  
Chaotic State ◽  
The Bahamas ◽  
Dry Dock ◽  
To Come

This chapter reviews Thomas Kirkpatrick's arrival from New York to Nassau to fill the new position in state of the consulate. It states that Kirkpatrick entered the consulate and found the office in a chaotic state. In preparation for the move, Kirkpatrick was able to sit down with George Harris and discuss resolution of the back-rent issue and other debts incurred by the office dating back to the repair of the windows Sam Whiting had broken out. The chapter also elaborates John Howell's idea that would help the Union: to establish a coal depot for US merchant ships on Hog Island near the dry dock. US Marshal for New York City Robert Murray introduced Howell as a true friend of the Union cause, who had provided much information on blockade runners. The chapter then narrates the downturn in activity in Nassau two days after Kirkpatrick's arrival: the return of yellow fever in 1864. Ultimately, the chapter discusses Kirkpatrick's recruitment of a couple of spies within the blockade-running companies and the surge of shipping in and out of Nassau. It further analyses Kirkpatrick's call for a new flying squadron to come to the Bahamas and reactivate Charles Wilkes's idea of nipping blockade runners off at the source.

A City's Desert: No Apples in the Big Apple? (A)

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Jamie Jones ◽  
Jennifer Rowland
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Strategic Alliances ◽  
York City ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Food Deserts ◽  
Innovative Solution ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Many

The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene's Physical Activity and Nutrition Program needed to come up with an innovative solution to the many health problems, such as obesity, diabetes, and heart disease that plagued residents of poorer areas in the city, while increasing economic opportunity for neighborhood residents. The result was the launching of Green Carts, a new mobile food vending initiative to support the introduction of healthier food options to residents of “food deserts” in New York City boroughs. The challenge was navigating the diverse landscape of players and engaging all of the relevant stakeholders to come up with a solution that was both feasible and sustainable. This case exemplifies the how partnership and strategic alliances can be used to have significant social impact. The beauty of this example is that it simultaneously addresses two large social issues: 1) access to healthy food options in urban food deserts and 2) creating self-employment opportunities for members of disadvantaged communities. This case also illustrates how the public sector can act as social innovators.Evaluate a complex real-world example of the types of partnership that must be formed in order to achieve scalable social impact. Use the ecosystem analysis framework provided in class to analyze the potential stakeholder groups and make recommendations about the types of partnership that should be put in place in order to maximize the effectiveness of the program.

A City's Desert: No Apples in the Big Apple? (B)

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Jamie Jones ◽  
Jennifer Rowland
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Strategic Alliances ◽  
York City ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Food Deserts ◽  
Innovative Solution ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Many

The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene's Physical Activity and Nutrition Program needed to come up with an innovative solution to the many health problems, such as obesity, diabetes, and heart disease that plagued residents of poorer areas in the city, while increasing economic opportunity for neighborhood residents. The result was the launching of Green Carts, a new mobile food vending initiative to support the introduction of healthier food options to residents of “food deserts” in New York City boroughs. The challenge was navigating the diverse landscape of players and engaging all of the relevant stakeholders to come up with a solution that was both feasible and sustainable. This case exemplifies the how partnership and strategic alliances can be used to have significant social impact. The beauty of this example is that it simultaneously addresses two large social issues: 1) access to healthy food options in urban food deserts and 2) creating self-employment opportunities for members of disadvantaged communities. This case also illustrates how the public sector can act as social innovators.Evaluate a complex real-world example of the types of partnership that must be formed in order to achieve scalable social impact. Use the ecosystem analysis framework provided in class to analyze the potential stakeholder groups and make recommendations about the types of partnership that should be put in place in order to maximize the effectiveness of the program.

She Can Do It

2018 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
pp. 5-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Ruby Rich
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Current Issue ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
60Th Anniversary ◽  
Lincoln Center ◽  
To Come

Editor in Chief, B. Ruby Rich, weighs in on the latest in film and media culture. She recaps the recent “Dimensions in Black” event that FQ hosted at Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York City to launch our December 2017 issue; reviews the content of the current issue; pays tribute to notable voices in the field that have passed on; and hints at things to come in FQ's 60th anniversary year.

Mediating the Method

2015 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 291-313
Author(s):  
Jacob Gallagher-Ross
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Experimental Music ◽  
Town Hall ◽  
Auditory Event ◽  
Recording Apparatus ◽  
The Difference ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Town

The scene is New York City, 1958. That year, in two disparate arenas, American culture was attempting to come to grips with the difference between noise and art. A twenty-five-year retrospective concert of John Cage's work at New York's Town Hall helped create an intellectually coherent canon out of Cage's experiments, which critics had often treated as puerile provocations or exercises in whimsy to be regarded with bemused toleration. For some forward thinkers, noise was becoming intellectually exciting material for experimental music, whereas the audible audience outrage preserved by the recording of the Town Hall concert testifies to the continuing rearguard pique of more conservative sensibilities. Cage himself couldn't have imagined a more apt illustration of his theories than this aleatory auditory event, preserved for posterity by the recording apparatus.

scholarly journals Relationship-Centered Care in a Novel Dual-Visit Model COVID Nursery Follow-Up Clinic

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 998-1001
Author(s):  
Minna Saslaw ◽  
Melissa E Glassman ◽  
M Kathleen Keown ◽  
Jordan Orange ◽  
Melissa S Stockwell
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Medical Center ◽  
Academic Medical Center ◽  
Academic Medical ◽  
Centered Care ◽  
To Come ◽  
Relationship Centered

The COVID Nursery Follow-Up Clinic at our academic medical center in New York City was established during the COVID-19 pandemic to provide care to infants born to SARS-CoV-2 positive mothers. We describe a novel dual-visit model utilizing telehealth and an in-person visit to provide timely, inclusive and relationship-centered care to the mother/infant couplet in a situation where the mother was unable to come to a traditional in-person visit, but the infant needed medically necessary in-person evaluation.

Off Stage

2019 ◽  
pp. 221-237
Author(s):  
Nancy E. Davis
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
New Jersey ◽  
York City ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
The Public ◽  
To Come ◽  
Panic Of 1837

Returning to New York City in 1836, Afong Moy’s sales functions fully ended and her manager, Henry Hannington, employed her solely as an oriental object in his New York diorama and panorama entertainments. After the Panic of 1837, Hannington’s operations collapsed. Those who brought her to America, Nathaniel and Francis Carnes and Captain Benjamin Obear, appear to have abandoned her despite their promise of returning her to China. In 1838, as Chapter 9 relates, Afong Moy, without resources or financial support, entered a poorhouse in Monmouth, New Jersey. Yet, the public did not forget her. Rallying to her defense, newspapers across the nation ran articles decrying her treatment. Citizens forced her guardians to come forward and contribute to her support.

Profile

2019 ◽  
pp. 11-13
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Israels Perry
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Young Woman ◽  
York City ◽  
League Of Women Voters ◽  
To Come

Shortly before his inauguration as mayor in January 1934, Fiorello La Guardia asked Pearl Bernstein, a young woman then working for the New York City League of Women Voters, to come see him. She had voted for him but never met him before. Wasting no time, he asked her straight out: “How would you like to be Secretary of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment and Director of the Budget?” This was a new position he hoped would rationalize the board’s chaotic budget procedures. “What they did,” Bernstein recalled later, “was to put some figures together and then every week they would add or subtract or multiply or divide—and nobody knew in the middle of the year how much had been spent.” The mayor chaired the board, but the borough presidents also submitted budgetary proposals, “and so it was a very unsatisfactory situation.” The League of Women Voters, where Bernstein had worked for the previous seven years monitoring municipal affairs, had advocated the city’s adoption of an executive budget prepared solely by the mayor. In the end she persuaded La Guardia to separate the two jobs he offered her, and because she knew nothing about accounting or budgets, she took the post of secretary. In January, the new board of estimate confirmed her appointment....

Design impact on New York City parking signs: Motorists pay $600 million in parking violations

2009 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordon Akwera
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Mental Models ◽  
York City ◽  
Information Design ◽  
The Other ◽  
Design Team ◽  
Clear Delineation ◽  
To Come ◽  
The City

In 2005 there were 9.5 million parking tickets issued in New York City (NYC), accounting for $578.6 million in revenues (NYC DOF, 2006). This article describes efforts by Addison’ Information Design to simplify the city’ parking signage. It is based on a presentation given at IIID Vision Plus 12 in Austria and the International Conference on Applications of Information Design at Mälardalen University in Sweden. Addison’ objective was to come up with exploratory alternatives to the extremely confusing parking signs posted throughout New York City. Addison’ Information Design team spent several days deciphering parking signs in areas that had the most number of confusing signs. The team explored out of the box concepts to come up with prototype signage systems that are more usable. To validate these concepts, the signs were user tested. The findings confirmed that participants found the existing signs confusing and extremely hard to understand, since the signs did not fit their mental models. The exploratory concepts, on the other hand, elicited positive feedback due to their unambiguous use of language, hierarchy of information, and clear delineation of regulations. The findings were presented to the Deputy Commissioner of New York City.

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