New York Healthier City Questions

• Healthier City Review the lectures, videos, and reading, then answer the questions. The questions will be due on February 13. • Reading Assignment Reading: Empire City: New York Through the Centuries, 278 -304; 362-369; 3 90-396; 443-455; 488-495; 464-473 • New York Documentary Video: Episode 2: Order and Disorder (1825-1865) This episode of NEW YORK: A DOCUMENTARY FILM details New York's enormous growth as a booming commercial center and multi-ethnic port, and the mounting tensions that set the stage for the nation's bloodiest riot. Watch the section on Central Park, minutes 54-1:07 in Episode 2. Video: Who Were the White Wings? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbpMNnk4jM8&feature=youtu.be NewYork Water https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwhO-PHbbJpqNmpmbzVIRnF4azQ/view Deep Water: Building the Catskill Water System https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiySd5Ve7pA&feature=youtu.be CentralPark https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwhO-PHbbJpqWnotcEUtQVMyOGc/view Healthier City Questions Video Questions 1. What were the public health and quality of life issues faced by New York in the nineteenth century? Be specific from each film. 2. What solutions were proposed? What projects were created? 3. How successful were these projects? 4. What were some of the costs of these projects? In other words, were there any negative results of reform that you can see? 5. How do these reforms still impact our lives today? Reading Questions 1. What is the difference between honest and dishonest graft? 2. What was the difference, according to Steffens, between Philadelphia and New York? 3. Why was working in the Brooklyn Bridge so dangerous? 4. What did Charles Loring Brace hope to accomplish? 5. What problems was the new Croton water system designed to solve? 6. How did life change with lots of water? What improved and what did not? 7. How did the water system change New Yorker's relationship to nature and upstate areas?