“New York is the city that never sleeps” i never understood this quote until i witnessed walking NYC in daylight and night. New York is the only place where you see people walking all over the place they’re either running to work, trying to catch the bus or train before it leaves, or just trying to get home.

i remember one night i came out early out work around 1am, so i decided to go to 42nd street Times Square one of the most places that New Yorkers know. When i arrived there all i saw was the big beautiful bright lights everywhere! Times Square looks so amazing at night nothing compared in the daylight. I love going to Times Square at night now, just watching the lights glowing in the dark night sky is so incredible! I was surprised that there were still so many people walking around, running, bumping into people etc, like if it was during the day. That when i understood that NYC never sleeps because there’s always people walking around, the people is what keeps NYC so alive!

In this passage of “City limits” by Colson Whitehead, he states that he was born in NYC and that it is the greatest city of all and that he in ruined to like any other place. You can clearly see his love and pride he haves for NYC by saying he cant love other place that is isn’t New York.

Colson says how anyone can love New  York and that the person can create their own New York when they first see it. Colson talks about how his NYC from when he first saw it, now theirs new buildings that people see. But what he sees are the same old buildings that were there before. that’s why he says to not believe anything that anyone tells you! its just hokum. To just believe the events or anything when you are present at the time not other people in their time because that’s not your New York.

Its all true what Colson is saying every and each one us have our own New York, NYC is changing everyday in every way, buts its only up to us how we want to see these changes. For example in the future like in 10 years people are going to see the Freedom Tower, but everyone of that was here before the tragedy we are all going to see the Twin Towers and not the Freedom Tower. Everyone has their own NYC and  I love my New York, and like Colson said I am ruined fir any other place because New York is the only place for me.

“Fort Greene Dreams” is a personal narrative written by Nelson George a music and culture critic, journalist, and filmmaker. This Narrative is about when he moves from Jamaica, Queens to Fort Greene in Brooklyn. He tells us his experience in Brooklyn while achieving his dreams, and how he discovered himself as a writer, lover, son, mentor, etc all by living alone in an apartment in Fort green, 19 Willoughby Avenue.

What i like about this autobiography is how he uses imagery though out all this story. The precise details give us a picture on our head of what is he going through while living in Brooklyn. One descriptive paragraph he wrote about that gave me a good image in my head, is how he witnessed thief getting arrested in his backyard! this is on page thirty three in the second paragraph. How just one night he was sitting in front of his laptop probing for inspiration, when just out of no where a guy climbed over the fence to Nelsons backyard with a television. He was about to call the cops, but two other cops jumped the fence and arrested the thief. Nelson said how he felt he was watching a reality show of Cops, which gives me a picture in my head how it happened.

Nelson also talks about the pros of living in Fort Greene like the transportation was good only a few stops away from Manhattan, had plenty of time to focus on his work, but most important how he discovered himself as a writer and how he was in general. living her he published five books! like i always say it doesn’t matter where you start but where you end up!

• the year of the photo is 1899
• three women enjoying the weather at the park with a picnic
• they are next to a lake
• must be a sunny day since they are all wearing a hat
• they are eating like little finger sandwiches
• the woman on the right side is not aware of the picture being taken since she is not looking at the camera like the other two are
• must be the season of Fall since there is a lot of leaves on the floor
• the women are in some type of social group (club,school,church) because they are wearing the same dress code/uniform.

To me i can see these women enjoying the weather with a picnic at a park, maybe after a long day they had. I can assume that they went to an important place, by the way they are dressed. They are wearing long skirts, long sleeve white shirts with a tie, and they wearing fancy looking hats. Perhaps they went school, church, a meeting, or they just want to relax after a long day at work.

I looked up the picture and it is three ladies having a picnic in Prospect Park in Brooklyn. I found this amusing because i live like 10 min away Prospect Park and i like going there to go jog or just for a walk at the park and sit by the lake. Instead of picnics i be having bbq’s with my family, it is definitely a good place a to have a picnic these women chose a good place.