SEEING THE CITY: 2025

Growing up on the outskirts of Washington D.C. in Southern Maryland I have had many opportunities to experience the city. As a child it...

To many, New York City is “The Big Apple”. To me, New York City is the night sky. It’s the Milky Way, filled with constellations of...

Utica, NY was once the original Sin city, a.k.a. Handshake city and is now known as the city that God forgot. It once held a choke hold...

Buffalo is a very deceptive city; often seen as a smaller and homelier area. This may be true for its surrounding areas, but Buffalo is...

From the youngest age that I can remember hearing the name, I was one of the few people that had a positive opinion of Newark. For a time...

Mateu Healey-Parera

I was twelve years old when I first read the novelist Colson Whitehead’s definition of a New Yorker: “You are a New Yorker when what was...

From the bustling, vibrant streets of Downtown Los Angeles to the quiet farmlands of the southern U.S., America is home to a multitude of...

Growing up in Blagoevgrad, I lost freedoms by moving to the U.S.

New York City. The Big Apple and The City That Never Sleeps. For me and for many, we call New York City our home. For as long as I can...

My own story is not of one New York, but of many. I was born at NYP-Weill Cornell and spent the first few years of my life on the Upper...

In theory, my perception of Philadelphia should be drastically different than that of other cities I lived near. After all, I spent the...

I did not think people actually lived in Florida until I moved there. I had only heard of young families visiting Disney World, college...

Photo By Todd Maisel New York City has been a wonderous place explore, with endless options of food vendors, entertainment, architecture,...

Residents of upstate New York have a special kind of bond; but the bonds that upstate residents are even more dedicated to are the...

The second you leave the northern part of the Bronx, you end up in Westchester County, which houses around a million New York State...

When I first stumbled upon the printed words of “Lebanon, N.H.” in the New York Times, I was shocked but not surprised. An article,...

Op-ed Jessie Sutton February 23, 2023 The lens through which I perceive my conditional environments is influenced by the time I spent...

Manhattan was one of my least favorite boroughs in New York City. When I was younger, the only reason I went to the city was to visit the...

Las Vegas is a city that needs no introduction. Known as the “Entertainment Capital of the World”, tens of millions flock to a 4.2 mile...