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Crown Heights Typography

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I live in the neighborhood Crown Heights, which is located in Brooklyn, New York. This neighborhood is full of interesting things, colors and a different way of life. Its somewhat of a urban setting, full of apartment buildings and brownstone buildings, so you would see many varieties of typography. There are a lot of West Indians, including myself, living in Crown Heights, with a lot of different businesses such as West Indian cuisine restaurants, Chinese food restaurants, corner stores, clothing and shoe stores and even discount stores, also known as the 99 cent stores. There are different forms of public transportation here in Crown Heights that serves the area, so you would see numbered typography around. There is different types of typography that decorates Crown Heights, like simple but bold letters for businesses to creative art like pieces such as graffiti. Street signage typography is somewhat more out there than any other forms of typography.