Too Many Buildings In New York City By: Sarah Hunter
Silcott
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Have you ever thought about how life was without so many
buildings? Like how we had lots of wide open spaces. But all that
was taken away because of buildings.
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The African Burial Ground Here is an example of what I mean,
long ago in the 1600s-1800s when slaves died, their owners built
them a burial ground for them to bury there dead family members. It
was separated from there owners burial grounds. The slaves called
it the African Burial Ground. 1,000 years later researchers
accidentally found bones. The African Burial Ground was found. But
there was a big problem. People wanted to build a building right
over the burial ground. The African Americans were not happy with
that idea. Over 1 million African Americans protested and they won
but the building was still built but the workmen moved the bones to
another location. The building that was built became the museum of
the African Burial Ground.
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Buildings Are Built But Never Used Some buildings are built
then never used and thats a waste of money and a wasted of land.
And they do not even tear it down they just leave it there like its
a rock.
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Abandoned Buildings Turned Into New Buildings Long ago there
were some buildings that were always used like schools, houses,
businesses, and stores. But now they are abandoned. Some abandoned
places were turned into knew places and thats what should happen to
all abandoned buildings.
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Old Buildings Can Be Turned Into Homeless Shelters Some of the
abandoned buildings could be used as a homeless shelter. The
abandoned buildings could be used for a good cause.
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Before buildings came, everything was better and there were
lots of wide open spaces, trees, grass, flowers and different kinds
of birds instead of just pigeons. But now its just stone, metal and
pigeons every were and there is are no wide open spaces. Just
buildings every were in New York. And there are less trees, plants
and flowers. Not enough trees means not enough air, we cold die
because of these buildings. We need to tear some of them down. If
we dont then more buildings could be built and then their will be
nothing but buildings.