“The weather is good on Deribasovskaya, or it is raining again on Brighton Beach” - I watched this film for the first time at the beginning of this century. Then America for me was a completely different world, and in every film frame I peered into all the details of life and everyday life ...

“The NBA in action is fantastic!” — a replica of a frequently shown advertisement on television stuck in my memory from childhood. Back then, the abbreviation “NBA” was truly something out of science fiction for me. We exchanged gum inserts with pictures of famous...

McDonald's is a place that I have visited fewer times in my life than fingers on one hand. Well, on both - for sure. It so happened that I was overcome by such indifference to this world famous American brand that I can pass by ...

Like any significant socio-economic phenomenon, raising the minimum wage raises a lot of debate. In New York, although it competes with London for the title of “capital of the world,” the income of a significant part of the population still balances at the subsistence level, millions of people continue to receive salaries...

In my home country, Ukraine, I studied a lot. I heard different opinions about the education system in the United States, and often contradicting each other, therefore, when I arrived in New York, I almost immediately signed up for English courses at one of the local colleges. I was…