... unsightly neighborhoods, but unsafe ones as well. The Independent Budget Office proposed taxing vacant land at the same rate as commercial land, particularly those over 2,500 square feet. A higher tax rate would encourage owners to take care of and develop the land. A higher tax would become increasingly costly ... entities' exposure to vacant and abandoned lots would be transferred to the land banks. Ultimately, land banks would be responsible for managing and financing the land, as opposed to the government who already have various issues to deal with. Land banks will additionally be ...

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... was built over the location of the filled in pond. This was named Paradise Square. Mostly wooden homes were built here and by the 1820's their foundations began sinking into the unstable land causing the wooden frames to tilt. The buildings were structurally unsound, the decaying landfill became infested with mosquitos and soon the middle class families moved out of Paradise Square to higher ground. The poverty stricken, lower ... and it adds a new complication to the puzzle of the tenements. Nineteen languages and dialects are among the accomplishments of a furniture firm's collector who...

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• Approx Pages: 14
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... word in it, placed in front of her stomach. In each of the photos the word is different. The first photo the word is prefer, the second which is refuse, and the third is decide. The piece is well balanced, having the three photographs placed in a horizontal line. To add symmetry to the piece, the center photograph has the woman with her hand folded in front of her, as if holding ... 1990, and it can lead to many different thought, ideas, and conceptions. To the viewer the number of twists, braids, and locks in the hair represents the age of an old woman, one who has seen and experienced...

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• Grade Level: High School

... all of this made her feel like more of a stranger to the city. Even after eight years in New York she still liked being there. She "Liked the bleak branches above Washington Square...the morning chromatic flatness of Second Avenue, the fire escapes and the grilled storefronts peculiar and empty in their perspective," (Didion 234). She ... had been time she wasted and could never get back. She had realized that she had stayed "too long at the Fair," (Didion 236). The state of mind that Didion held throughout the essay changed dramatically from when she first arrived in New York until she...

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• Grade Level: High School