Sentences with phrase «cities during the depression»

To interpret health and disease patterns in this population, I'll have to find documents that deal with African - American life in cities during the Depression.»

I was a good audience for her, because I was very interested to hear what it was like to live in New York City during the Depression.

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During her address at the forum co-sponsored by Care for the Homeless and Long Island University's Master of Public Administration program, James noted that as of April 17, there are more than 61,000 individuals sleeping in the city's shelter system, which includes 23,000 children — and said that homelessness «is at the highest level in New York since the Great Depression.»

«Airbnb's practices are swallowing up affordable housing units, forcing New Yorkers from their homes and precipitating a spike in homelessness, unprecedented since the Great Depression,» Public Advocate Letitia James said during a rally outside City Hall, where the report was released.

Citizens Budget Commission began scrutinizing state and city budgets in New York during the Great Depression in the 1930s.

Set in and around New York City during the Great Depression, Annie opens in a girls» orphanage run by the needy, alcoholic, inhospitable Miss Hannigan (Carol Burnett).

During the depression many farmers took in the wives and children of their city cousins while the men hit the road looking for work.

Seattle was already one of the 25 largest cities in the country by 1910, when it was soon hindered during the Great Depression which damaged its economy.

The hotel's Field House Restaurant, named after Thomas and Herbert Field, two brothers who emigrated to Australia in 1885 and set up an Outdoor Relief and Stores Department which gave assistance to needy citizens of Sydney during the Great Depression, has been beautifully restored and with its heritage listed status provides old world charm and traditional style amongst a bustling inner - city high rise hotel.

During the Depression, HOLC enlisted the help of mortgage lenders, developers, and real estate appraisers in roughly 250 cities to generate color - coded maps that rated the worthiness and liability of neighborhoods and metropolitan areas.

He studied art at the National Academy of Design and at City College, graduating in 1935, and joined the star - studded roster of the WPA artists, which helped him keep a studio going in Chelsea during the decade - long Depression.

Born into a poor family in Wilkes - Barre, Pennsylvania, Kline was educated in a school for fatherless boys — his father having committed suicide in 1917 — and went on to study painting in Boston and then in London.He returned to the States after marrying, made «jazz murals» and found employment as a graphic artist for the WPA during the Depression, settling in downtown New York City in 1939, quite down on his luck.

Many artists over the last few hundred years have created etchings using the copper plate intaglio technique, including Rembrandt, Goya, Dürer, and Richard Coe, whose depictions of Birmingham during the Great Depression are the focus of Magic City Realism: Richard Coe's Birmingham.

During the Great Depression, it traveled American in a 13 - city tour, influencing the recreation of the image on the national post stamp in 1934 and the creation of an 8 - foot - tall bronze statue in Ashland, PA..

[5] During the Depression, however, he was forced to leave the city for four years between 1932 and 1936 and move to Newtown, Connecticut.

During decades of depression, inflation, multiculturalism, conservatism and AIDS, she and her colleagues lived improvised lives on the city's fringes.

Seattle was already one of the 25 largest cities in the country by 1910, when it was soon hindered during the Great Depression which damaged its economy.

The city's leather industry, led by the Bona Allen Company, as well as its location as a railway stop, caused the population to expand during the early 1900s until after the Great Depression had ended.

During the Great Depression, the Family Society (which subsequently changed its corporate name from Associated Charities to the Family Welfare Society of Ithaca) accepted the role as Ithaca's singular welfare relief agency by distributing food, clothing and financial assistance to the city's neediest families; thereby depleting the majority of the modest endowment it had acquired prior to the Depression.

During the Depression, Murphy consolidated his business and moved to New York City.