past, present and future?

Question

NEW YORK... i wanna know the past present and future about new york...thanks!

don't answer me like the first dude who answered because he didn't really help...

Answer 1

Past: Go to a library
Present: Open your eyes, it's all before you
Future: Take your pick; ouija board, gypsy foreteller, etc etc.

Answer 2

Past: Bret Hart Present: Jeff Hardy Future: Cody Rhodes

Answer 3

New York metropolitan area was the largest city in the world from about 1930, when it overtook London, until the 1970s when it was overtaken by Tokyo and then Mexico City.

It was the primary port of entry for immigrants from Europe to the United States for many decades prior to the age of the jetplane. Immigrants were processed on Ellis Island (where the statue of Liberty is) in the 1890s and 1900s, and had to prove, or at least to successfully pretend, that they did not have TB or other infectious diseases.

In consequence, New York came to be the most culturally diverse city in the world; by the 1980s some analysyts reckoned that only 7% of its people were of NW European ethnic origin (cp what, maybe 60%, for the whole US). One mayor boasted that "we have more Jews than Jerusalem, more Poles than Warsaw, more Irish than Dublin and more Hispanics than Madrid".

New York grew up on the textile industry and became famous (or notorious) for "sweatshops" (places where people worked long hours for low pay) early in the 20th century. Later it became a very diverse and successful economy.

It also acquired a well-grounded reputation for violence and gang culture, epitomised in the Bernstein musical "West Side Story". People living in NY in the 1940s and 50s did not consider it safe to walk after dark even from the nearest bus-stop to their front door.

Present..... SInce the clean-up during Giuliani's mayoralty, NY has become a relatively safe city (outside the South Bronx). It is still a large, vibrant, vertical city, with a successful economy led by the banks and stockbrokers. And of course it belongs to NY state with its excellent senator, Hillary Clinton.

Future.... renewal, refurbishment, expansion of service industries, still the shopping and advertizing capital of America, never again dominant politically but ever-influential.