The Lifestyles of New Yorkers

The Lifestyles

of New

Yorkers

Sampson Obeng

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Contents

Title Page

Copyright

Preface

Acknowledgments

A Note to the Reader

Fact

New York: The Global Nexus

About the New Yorkers

Traditional Holidays

Nontraditional Holidays

CELEBRATING GAY AND LESBIAN MARRIAGE

NEW YEAR’S EVE

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Preface

The history of the United States of America tells the world about the reliable logistics capability and helping the world in terms of everything, making America a beacon of realistic peace to the world. The saga of endeavoring in its power in reclaiming the United States’ historic role as a beacon to the world, being a shining example for the world to imitate or follow and never waning, not to wrest from the world’s complexity, is a fact that is clear, simple, and undeniably true that bounces America to the top of all other nations in the world.

In the United States of America lies a medium-sized state with a sophisticated giant-sized reputation known for its big city—the New York State. This state has its potential for development, for its magnificent landscaping covers approximately all of 54,556 square miles, from mountain surroundings, deep valleys and gorges creating spectacular sparkling lakes and waterfalls, to sea levels along the Atlantic Ocean’s beaches of Long Island, creating multimillions from tourism annually. Its state capital is Albany, and the largest city is New York City, the Big Apple, with the highest point of 5,344 feet. That’s Mount Marcy to the lowest point sea level at the Atlantic Ocean.

New York State is also known as the Empire State. The constitution is the basis of American government, and the constitution divides and separates the powers of government; purposes of the constitution explain briefly why we, the people of the United States, established the constitution. The purposes of the Founding Fathers were to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity. Federal system division of powers, the constitution set up a system of federalism, a dual system of government whereby powers are divided between the state governments and the central (also known as the national or federal) government. The constitution limits the federal government to delegate or enumerate powers specifically listed in the constitution as being granted to the federal government. Powers not given to the federal government and not denied to the states are reserved to the states to the people. Both federal government and state government may exercise certain powers, called concurrent powers; under the federal system each government is supreme within its own sphere. Every American is a citizen both of the United States and of the state in which he or she is born and resides. The history constitution lamented was the purpose of creating New York State, the Empire state.

In the year 1664, King Charles II of England authorized his brother James, Duke of York, to take over the Dutch colony of New Netherland; the king sent four ships, carrying 450 men; English naval forces to the city of New Amsterdam, and compelled the Dutch director-general Peter Stuyvesant to surrender both the city and the colony. New Netherland and New Amsterdam were renamed New York after the Duke of York; this was how New York got its name with other states, and the Dutch influence remained in New York at present and by the number of old homes, churches, and the good people of New York State become New Yorkers by an instant. This book is all about the most gifted people God has ever created for the people of the world. This is a book for all who live in the greatest metropolitan area of New York, the people outside New York, the people from outside the United States of America. The objective of this book is about the rhetoric—of an ability to use language effectively, especially to persuade or influence people worldwide to be known of how nice, friendly, and safe New York is all about without some negative connotations.

The world is all the time invited to discover the extraordinary vision of New York and befriend the good people on earth (New Yorkers). Don’t miss your opportunity to have a deeper look at the remarkable creativity in the most successful city or state in history, especially the musicals on Broadway in the Times Square vicinity.

Acknowledgments

I thank myself for the deep concern about the extraordinary lifestyles of New Yorkers that the outside world are so scared to be in New York, as the most fearful state in the world.

I patiently and repeatedly explained about the false allegations that New York is a safe and friendly state to visit. Reading this book will convince you about any false allegations against the good people of New York. In the largest sense, my thanks go to Walter Twumasi (LDS) who assisted me with exposure to new ideas and simply appropriated his knowledge.

I’m indebted to Amma-aidoo and Anthea Wallace of Wallace Graphics for their unfailing generous and profound knowledge and hard work, which together transformed this book from manuscript to fruition.

A Note to the Reader

New York, the Empire State with a sophisticated city. New York City, the Big Apple with its phenomenal global nexus and the distinctive New Yorkers. The people that the world respected and envied to be truly extraordinary and marvelous, intellectually and without limitation and encumbrance, creating multimillion influx of tourism, coupled with aliens one day at a time incessantly. They are the people of exotic dress sense on the excessive and extreme whimsy. Making them appear exactly like New Yorkers. The rich and famous, the people of ego, as enunciated in my first most hilarious nonfiction book, New Yorkers and their Yellow Cabbies: The Implications. Evoking the perceptual phatic concerning the above enunciations rise a compelling and dilatational need to write this prose of epic proportions without embellishment, to personalize the lifestyle of New Yorkers and secondly to mimic the awesome lifestyle that the world is endeavoring.

Fact

New Yorkers cultivate a diva attitude demanding to be treated with respect without gross and false overestimation of personal worth, importance, powerfulness, and attractiveness in delusions of grandeur. New Yorkers are created to be the happiest people on earth, a sense of humor for their understanding of making a living with their possibilities of creating happiness or injecting happiness into themselves notwithstanding being mundane (if any) whatsoever. The empathetic attitude of unfailingly generous contribution worldwide is a phenomenon, caused by their proactive sense of humor. Good people are all the time looking for friends. Their camaraderie notions are fantastic. They could be a wonderful companion in an instant; they never think about enmity and never deserve to be hated. They have never seen a hatchet in their lives to be buried and caused transformed enmity and hatred into friendship. Forget hype and caricaturist notions; come close to them to find out how nice, cool, and good people they are and Americans as a whole.

New York: The Global Nexus

New York has a very good reputation worldwide with few bad manners, but with just so little accountability in the city. Most of the strangers travel down to New York, the Big Apple, with part of their little accountability thinking New York City has bad manners. Therefore, they try to change from good manners to bad in order to fit in the society, making the bad manners evolve. The native New Yorkers have good manners drilled into them as a child or an adult. They don’t sit down before the host; they mind their own business with full respect, evolving the good reputation of the Big Apple. There are plenty of legendary reputations for nightlife for a need, be well taken care of. An extraordinary city that’s never one of the most fun cities in the world, but rather the best, most fun city in the world in terms of everything. A city that’s so prestigious to shop, drink, and party, including fun-making cruises around the Statue of Liberty that lead to the supercool Meatpacking District where life is really located. Affordable restaurants, five-star hotels, elegant, flattering dress stores that will encourage you to shop till you drop. It’s sensational, stunning, timeless, cool, comfortable, and stress free to be part of the biggest fun-making people in the world. Including East Greenwich, West Village, and SoHo (the south of Houston Street), the wonderful, epic vicinity in the world. Times Square of the Big Apple, where beauty inspires the heart and wonder dazzles the soul, which the tourists can’t tell the hour of the night. Frankly speaking, New York is so beautiful, a dream of an awakening and serenity, a home for all the world’s people most worthwhile endeavors spring eternal. A city where people arrive with empty luggage and leave with everything beautiful and quality. Every district is a home to the contemporary arts, offering cutting-edge art, music theater, and dance where thousands join in this vibrant celebration and street fair marking the summer, sunshine weather. New York has the leading special events and festivals throughout the year’s showcase, the city artistic heart and soul, programming with live music, family activities, and exhibit walk-throughs. Theaters and back in time at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and one of the world’s ebullient museums, the American Museum of Natural History, located at prestigious vicinity in the city. The global nexus (New York) has the world-famous chefs and more than a thousand restaurants that dazzle with its myriad ethnic culinary treasures. As a matter of fact, New York is somehow divided into distinctive groups with their unique culinary dramas. Immigrants try to transform the food of their upper classes, and that inspired the community pride and cohesion. World Trade Center reaches a symbolic height. New Yorkers gazed up with pride at the gleaming near completion of One World Trade Center when the final eighteen-piece spire was locked into place at the top of the tower. On that morning, the steel spire installed transformed the height, which officially escalated to 1,776 feet, and the building officially became the tallest in the country or in the Western Hemisphere. New York, the global nexus, is more beautiful than ever with its attractive towers that symbolize the resurgence and resilience of the state and America as a whole. The 408-foot spire’s topmost piece includes a lighted beacon of the civilization that the forces of medievalism mistakenly believed to get rid of is visible for about fifty miles as a house transmitter to provide unparalleled radio and TV services. The new World Trade Center is more than a symbol and a statement as a place of life to honor the memory and spirit of the 2,753 who died from the devastation of the North and South towers. It reflects the strength of the city, the only city in the universe capable of the feats of entailed engineers in the rebuilding process of the World Trade Center. The city has imposed a bike-share program called the Citi Bike, mounted in every vicinity in all the boroughs for hire and to improve the air quality for human health and to reduce the traffic congestion in New York City. It seems like a step toward gentrification that may get more people on bikes and secondly be a good thing for tourists seeing New York and better than at the top of a sightseeing bus. Being individual bikers, the riders may be able to stop and observe things on their own discretion. The enthused are certain to appeal to most tourists and Europeans including New Yorkers who have inclinations to hop on bikes; that’s a great thing for the city and environment. Everybody loves New York. Everyone wants in on New York, and living in New York is the world’s dream, the greatest place in making the world look to get into New York and with a hotel brand to suit every style and occasion. New York loves tourists; the city is banking on new attractions and campaigning to keep visitors at record pace, that’s a message to tourists: there’s a lot more to see in New York than you realize, the city raked in 52 million visitors and a record number that brought 55.3 billion into the city’s coffers. The city wants to increase the number of visitors to 55 million annually and is working hard to reach that goal. The city is seeing a record number of visitors, but the officials are trying to lure more with new attractions. Times Square and central park are the top spots for visitors but city officials have been on a quest to lure them to different parts of the city including 1 world trade center and the New west side at the same time, the city is banking on spotlighting new attractions and destinations outside of Manhattan. A former railroad trail, which is an elevated park opened in the year 2009 with a name High Line on the west-side, have more than 10 million visitors walked the former railroad trail as sight-seeing according to the mayor Michael Bloomberg. He also touted the newest cruise ship to dock in the city, The Norwegian cruise line. Besides being the latest addition to the city cruise industry, the Breakaway is New York City’s biggest ship. Since 2009, the number of cruise ship passengers embarking in New York City has grown by 32 percent. They totaled more than 587,000 passengers during 2012 alone. The mayor said, both cruise terminal received major makeovers and have become quite attractive to ship companies that are looking for new port cities. Visitors enjoy intuitive services and luxurious accommodation with all the right, tasteful details when they sail to New York’s most enchanting destination. Getting lost in New York City is to be a thing of the past due to the unveiled new pedestrian maps. Navigating the city by foot get easier as the rolls out of its walk, NYC pedestrian maps show area streets; points of interest; travel information, such as bus and subway locations, shops and cultural landmarks, estimated walking times in a clean simple format.

Drawing a crowd in New York City streets seems more crowded with slow-walking visitors lately, winter or summer, a happily taken responsibility by Willy Wong. His job is to convince people to visit the big apple; a chief creative officer of NYC and company, the city’s official marketing and tourism organization. Sounds like a daunting task, but the job has its perks, since NYC & Company, also handles licensing for the city, Wong got to play with a taxi-themed Big Bird and Sanitation Department–themed Oscar the grouch plush toy when the agency teamed up with Sesame Street.

The bump in visitors to New York, particularly from other countries, has been more phenomenal than anything we would have imagined over the last few years, especially given the recession, Wong says.

It’s not just out-of-towers that Wong’s tasked with getting to spend money here. He also creates local champagnes and events to encourage New Yorkers to get out and explore other neighborhoods.

For example, NYC & company is behind restaurant week and off-Broadway week, which puts butts in seats during the theater’s slow season.

He’s clearly excited about his mission, it never gets boring, Wong says. If you ever find yourself bored in New York city, you should probably reevaluate yourself. The above was published in New York Daily News (Sunday, July 14, 2013) by Sheila McClear.

New York consists of immigrant enclaves; a world of immigrant neighborhoods have formed from Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America, and Africa. That was triggered by the passage of immigration reform legislation in 1965, which opened the door to greater numbers of non-Europeans and changed the ethnic composition of New York and the United States. The European enclave that once defined immigrant life in New York City has appeared and disappeared. Since 1970, the number of foreign-born New Yorkers has more than doubled to about three million or 37 percent of the city’s total population, according to the Census Bureau. About 32 percent of the city immigrants today come from Latin America, 26 percent from Asia, 20 percent from non-Hispanic Caribbean nation, 17 percent from Europe, and 4 percent from Africa.

The immigrants have settled near their compatriots for convenience and mutual support, organically forming communities within the ethnic mosaic of the city. As with earlier waves of immigrants, may of the newcomers fled from economic hardship, armed conflict and other adversities. The immigrants in New York City found the city as their permanent home. For instance, Arabs in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn; Sri Lankans on Staten Island; Chinese in the American area in Sunset Park, Brooklyn; Ghanaians in the Bronx, where their large immigrant group centered. The Germans of the twenty-first century in various states of evolution. Their foods, ways, and ethnic cultures of home are such a central part of these communities; food is fun and gives pleasure. Since it links psychologically to sex, immigrants may feel slightly excited in New York. They support one another by direct aid in times of need and through the developments of a moral economy or a situation that generally condemned individual initiative, as something alien and inimical to the immigrants in the community.

ARABS in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn Friday prayers at the Islamic society of Bay Ridge is so popular that the Islamic society of Bay Ridge is so popular that the mosque often fills to capacity and late-arriving worshippers have to find a free spot to pray on the sidewalk, which the staff covers with carpet. It’s an amazing sight, a manifestation of the emergence of a thriving pan-Arab enclave in Northern Bay Ridge. The immigrants-Lebanese, Palestinians, Syrians, Egyptians, Yemenis, Moroccans and others have mostly settled in an area bounded by 65th and 77th streets to the North and South and seventh avenue and colonial road to the east and west. Bay Ridge’s population was the latest in a series of Arab enclaves