SEEING THE CITY: 2025

As far back as my memory goes, I've always known about Mt. Tabor. This beautiful park that displays a stunning view of the entire city of...

Entrance to Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida Growing up, my family and I did not spread our wings and travel to new places. My mom...

All throughout high school I would always enjoy my mornings heading to class. The time period between leaving my house and getting to...

I never bought into the claims of Ohio being forgettable. I can attribute this to having lived in Cleveland for the entirety of my life....

I remember the feeling of what it was like to fly. I was eight years old when I zip lined from mountain to mountain in Montevideo,...

My mother was born on Long Island and came to work in New York City in her mid-20's. She had a career as a hair and makeup stylist at a...

As I arrived for the first time to my apartment in New York City in late summer, I was overwhelmed by the quantity of stimuli. Coming...

There are exceptionally many hamburger shops, beer glasses with British broadcasting shows, pizza houses with Australian football games,...

New York City has always been on the top of my bucket list since I was a child. I knew I would love New York City before I even visited...

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...