Before our neighborhood analysis, I’ve never taken the time out to analyze or pay attention to what’s going on in my neighborhood. After carefully analyzing my neighborhood I suddenly realized that there is a lot of history in my neighborhood. Port Richmond is one of the oldest districts on Staten Island, there are local businesses that have been passed down from generation to generation, there are also a few landmark buildings that are currently going through restoration. I’ve also noticed the zoning hasn’t changed much either. I think the reason why most of these local businesses have been able to do so well is because of the relationship between local business owners and consumers in my neighborhood. I’ve witnessed conversations between owners and consumers last for five to seven mins from asking about their wife and kids or asking about their parents and grandparents. From our  previous lectures, we spoke about gentrification, how it changes a neighborhood and the impact it has on a neighborhood, because my neighborhood is a preserved neighborhood if the zoning was supposed to be changed and investors were able to build higher and bigger without the consideration of locally owned businesses, I think I would lose a very important part of my neighborhood, it would not be the same.