#stuyvesant

[haikumaker]

Stuyvesant High School, some 1979 seniors. Milking the end of the 70s for all it was worth.

[coolthingsguyslike]

[exit-path]

Yes, I'm confirming it now, I did go to Stuyvesant High School.

hi guys, today's my brother's birthday, everyone wish him a happy birthday. anyways i really didn't have a reason to make this post, but here goes.

if you don't know what stuyvesant high school is, that's fine, you don't need to. if you do know what it is, then great, you'll know how prestigious it is. i already hinted at this in my aug 2022 post, but here's an official confirmation.

and i'm surprised no one realized sooner. the path traced out in this post perfectly lines up with the area around the school. and the photos in this post were literally taken from inside the school.

one thing i valued really highly was my ability to balance both my school life and my tumblr blog (i'm surprised i managed to do so in hindsight). the 2020 pandemic definitely made it easier, as my 10th and 11th grade years were now spent in front of a screen where i could be online all day.

i graduated as a pretty average student academically, although the one thing i regret is not utilizing the available resources as well as i could've.

the reason i had a public meltdown on tumblr in jun 2022 is because i was scared to make much the same post you're reading right now. i was going to college and couldn't stay active online for much longer, and i wanted to do a face reveal and quit tumblr for good (the quote "you either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain" greatly informed my actions during this time).

but many months have passed since then, i've been allowed time to reflect, and i realized that– i'm not a two-dimensional character. i don't die at the peak of my fame. i'm still alive.

i still hold the value of an education in high regard, though that may sound cheap coming from someone who poured hours a day into an online fandom. it's just... my story is one you can learn from, not one to be replicated. stay in school.

will i be returning to using this blog regularly? probably not. i realize there's nothing here for me to have fun doing anymore, and mineblr is a shadow of its former glory—no matter now much i wish for it to be otherwise.

maybe i'll reconsider when deltarune ch. 3 comes out. or if minecraft has a second renaissance. or if the GD community takes off here, or better yet, if update 2.2 comes out. or if the walten files ep. 4 comes out. could you imagine that?

anyways, i'll leave you with a few additional fun facts you might not have known:

the minecraft server from this reblog (OP is sketiana) and elaborated on in these posts was actually the Stuyvesant Minecraft Coalition server

i appeared on my school website's home page one time, wearing my halloween costume.

if you ever visit the school, you can find a poster i made on the 4th floor (on the wall behind the escalator). it has my sideblog sona on it

one final request, please don't use my real name or do anything with my real face. also, please don't try anything that could jeopardize my real-life location. i know i'm operating on an honor system here, but i genuinely mean it. everything i willingly shared was because it was a story too important to pass up.

i hope i've tied up all loose ends. thank you, and i'll catch you on the flipside.

[todaysdocument]

Plan of the City of New York, in North America: Surveyed in the Years 1766 & 1767, 1/12/1776

File Unit: New York, 1784 - 1890

Series: Civil Works Map File, 1818 - 1947

Record Group 77: Records of the Office of the Chief of Engineers, 1789 - 1999

Image descriptions:

a) A map showing the tip of Manhattan, up to about 23rd St. We can also see “Part of New Jersey” and Long Island. Manhattan only has blocks laid out to what is now Tribeca on the west side and Delancey St on the east side. 

b) The reverse of the map shows Bedloe’s Island (the modern site of the Statue of Liberty), Governor’s Island, and “Part of Nassau”. The lower third of the map shows a “South West View of the City of New York. Taken from the Governours Island at [star]”.

c) A zoomed-in detail of the “South West View of the City of New York. Taken from the Governours Island at [star].” We can see ships on the water and smoke rising from the city. 

e) A zoomed-in detail of the area of Manhattan where we can see the layout of the farms of P. Stuyvesant, G. Stuyvesant, and N. Stuyvesant, and A. Elliot Esq. This is in the modern area of Stuyvesant Cove Park over to Union Square.  

[nyc-urbanism]

On this day in 1674 the Treaty of Westminster was signed by the Netherlands and England, giving the Colony New Netherland to the British and ending the Third Anglo-Dutch War. The British changed the name of the colony to New York, following an attack organized by the Duke of York that led to the surrender of Dutch Governor Peter Stuyvesant. This incredible map gives a great look into British New York, decades before the Revolutionary War. The British removed the wall along Wall Street and expanded the city north and into the harbor via landfill. While many of the street names remain the same today, the British did rename many streets with names like King, Queen, Duke and Crown. Tap on the map to purchase a fine-art print from our website. #onthisday #nychistory #nyhistory #historicnyc #newamsterdam #newyorkhistory #manhattan #brooklyn #battleofbrooklyn #stuyvesant #peterstuyvesant (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLe14WCnDLV/?igshid=17xckvaquu6u6

[hertestimony]

Intro

Korean.

Christian. 

Counselor. 

These are the three things that define me. I would list Christian first, but I ordered them in such a way because my work as a counselor is much more intertwined with my being a Christian. I’m a Korean, as well as a Christian counselor. 

I came to the states when I was about a year old from Seoul, South Korea. After a year or so, I went back to Korea with my mom, stayed there for a few years, and came back to the states for good in 1996. I didn’t have any formal education until I started first grade in April with not even two months left of the school year. I didn’t speak a word of English, but now at the age of 30, people are pretty impressed that I speak and write both English and Korean fluently. 

When I was 10, I was crossing the street at an intersection with four stop signs, and a really really old man didn’t see me. I underwent bilateral arthroscopic procedures on the knees and went to receive physical therapy for a couple months. I just remember that I dreaded going to the therapy office. Shortly after, within a year, I was running around as if the car accident had never happened.

I studied like I’ve never studied before for two months, and was accepted into Stuyvesant High School, a highly prestigious high school in the city with escalators. I definitely have to mention that because that’s of the things that made me feel that I had to get accepted. I knew nothing else about the school to be honest except that it was considered a top notch school, if not the best, in NY. I went through all four years getting average scores and hanging out with the good apples. All I ever did was go to school, participate in clubs and other extracurricular activities, go home, and repeat. 

I was accepted to the William E. Macaulay Honors College at Queens College, where I received free tuition for all four years, and my very own macbook, which I bought for a $1 in my junior year. I also used part of a $7,000 stipend to study abroad during the Winter of 2010 in Japan. College was a joke compared to my time at Stuyvesant. 

In my senior year of college, I met an older boy who exposed me to cutting school, sex, cigarettes, weed, and drinking. I spent the next three years experimenting with things in life that I had looked down upon up until then. During these years, I held menial job positions as a dental assistant, but also made some cash working as a private tutor. I always had my own spending money - as long as my parents provided a roof over my head, I was able to take care of the rest, so much so that I even lent the boyfriend a few thousand dollars, which he never repaid. Also during these years, as time passed, I started to skip church service more and more often.

When life seemed to not be progressing the way I hoped, and the boyfriend was just as unmotivated about life as he was when I met him, I just happened to meet a new person. 5 years younger, attractive (very popular with the girls), and vivacious, he was eager to impress me even though I kept my distance from him since I am a loyal and faithful person. But, after about six months had passed of knowing this younger guy and things didn’t look promising with the boyfriend, I made a very difficult decision to change gears. 

The new boyfriend brought me happiness and motivation. I was at my most prime physically, and started to take classes at a community college to pursue a nursing degree. It wasn’t long (in fact, only about a month in) when our relationship started to not look right. He was quick to tell me that he wanted to break up, I was jealous and worried that he might look at other girls (since he was so popular, and he was also overly friendly and helpful, especially with the ladies), and worst of all, he and I just didn’t see eye to eye. From the get-go, our communication was not fluid, and this continued for the next 5 years. The relationship quickly grew toxic - I became more submissive and docile while he grew more and more aggressive and abusive. 

In 2015, I started grad school to become a school counselor. There were many obstacles along the way such as having to prolong my studies a whole year because of issues at my internship site. Mentally and emotionally, I always felt drained because my relationship with the boyfriend was growing more and more toxic, and I didn’t feel happy with the counseling program.

At the fifth year of my relationship with the boyfriend, my sister and her boyfriend became engaged and soon after, she was busy working full time (in a director position) and planning on a wedding. Being that in the Korean culture, the older siblings are supposed to get married first, pressure was put on me, not necessarily by my family, but by older adults and even strangers. I didn’t care much, but I think I was more envious of the fact that her life was moving the way I wanted mine to go. 

I was 28 years old. No job. A toxic relationship. People all around me getting married and even having kids. My dream as a child was always to get married early (at 21 years of age!) and have children with the man I loved. I was pretty much a miserable wreck by this time. Oh, and I was hit by a car again. Another old old man who didn't see my huge northface jacket as I crossed the street. I was dealing with some serious back and knee pain, and unlike when I was 10 years old, the healing process was taking a lot longer.

One summer night in 2018, as I followed my usual routine, playing PC games and/or browsing the web, and listening to Christian music (that’s right. I didn’t listen to anything else, but Christian music), suddenly the lyrics to the song that was playing hit me hard. I can’t remember for sure what song it was, but for some reason I feel like it could have been “Reckless Love” by Cory Asbury. I just started to weep uncontrollably and praise God. 

My life changed after that night.

About a year after that night, here I am writing my first blog post. 

This blog will be dedicated to my detailed life stories, and Bible passages/messages I want to share. Every single one of my posts will have an underlying or very evident Christian theme because before I am anything else, my identity is in Jesus Christ alone. 

I pray that my blogs will glorify God alone, that you will leave deeply reflecting on what God’s love and grace looks like in your life, and that my true life stories will encourage you to love Him more and praise Him for who He is.

[gwydionmisha]

A Few More Black Students Are Offered Spots at Stuyvesant, Fanning Fresh Uproar

A once-obscure program named Discovery has become an unexpected flash point in a local debate about specialized school admissions and the national fight over affirmative action.

[worldurbanplanning]

. Location | Stuyvesant Town, New York, USA . Le Corbusier has described New York as a city “utterly devoid of harmony.” He wasn’t impressed by the tall towers, and stated that they were a product of an inferiority complex. He believed the city would do better by building buildings that don't outdo each other, and which were more or less identical. . Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village, also known as Stuy Town, was planned in 1942 as a post-war affordable housing project for war veterans and is an early example of a towers in a park design in New York. The idea of the design was to create a country within a city, and was created by the Robert Moses. The design has moreover resemblance to Le Corbusier's Radiant City; separating pedestrians from cars and commercial spaces. . The town contains 110 cruciform-like buildings with 11,250 apartments. Only 25% of the area is occupied by the 110 buildings, while the rest is open space. . #stuyvesant #stuytown #petercoopervillage #newyork #usa #worldurbanplanning #urbanplanning #cityplanning #architecture #landscapearchitecture #aerialview #aerialphotography #drone #residential #radiantcity #robertmoses #lecorbusier #urbandesign #park #뉴욕 #미국 #도시 #도시계획 #green #city #urbanlandscape (at Stuyvesant Town–Peter Cooper Village)