During Wednesday presentation our classmates presented their questions and their thesis. Along with the different websites and ways they researched their topics. One group showed interesting and useful website that could have helped me out during my presentation. Where it shows old images of NYC to help me demonstrate my point better, compare the past and present. It is a website I will be using as I move further along through my research. The following group introduced another useful website that creates charts and helps analyze the area by giving data from many years ago up till 2010. It would be helpful to compare data from before and have. Another helpful till was to keep record of the key words we use while researching our topic.
Author: jennifer reyes
In the neighborhood assignment I had a chance to learn how to look deeper into my neighborhood. I noticed many new things in my neighborhood, discovering new things creates an eye-opening moment. I was raised in Bushwick and then I moved to East New York were I currently live for about 10 years. The reason we left the neighborhood I was raised in is because my parent wanted a different environment and the one, we moved into is very diverse. My neighborhood is big, but I almost never go out of the comfort zone I have created with four major blocks.
While living in this neighborhood I would just walk to the train station and do some shopping on the main street, never really looked passed it. While having this assignment I got the chance to look deeper into the history of my current neighborhood how the streets used to look like in the 1800s. what I found interesting is that the train station and railroads have been there for many years now. Fulton street which is the main street has always been the commercial area where people go to buy their everyday needs. The church was a historical part I enjoy researching saw images of how it started off compared on how it changed into today. After the project I appreciate the amount of history facts I gathered from the research and images.
Then we had to record our observation while taking a voice note. That was the helpful part because later on I could rehear it and realize thing I have missed in the specific spot and that I didn’t notice before.
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