essay #2 My neighborhood compared to Time Square

Courtney Lewis

Times Square the place that never sleeps! Tourist epicenter. You can find people walking at all times of the day and night. Bright Lights all time round. Con Edison is always happy. All races are blended in one big melting pot. Entrepreneurs are everywhere! Street vendors, street artists, Disney characters, cartoon characters, even Naked Cowboy and Cowgirl are all out to hustle for their pay. Yellow cabs, metro buses, Green cabs, and the subway system are all available to you to travel further than your feet can take you all for the right price. Retail stores, Restaurants, and Mom and Pop stores are everywhere, guaranteeing that will spend all of your money and regret it later.

My current neighbor is in Brooklyn Heights. I live on Henry street. The most boring street ever! It is like being deaf and having no hearing aid. You rarely hear noise. I even feel the people whisper when they walk on my block. I love it! All the people that past are usually tourist going to see the promenade or just walking around to see the neighborhood. School buses and Access-a-Ride take over the streets. I feel at night it gets colder than the rest of Brooklyn! a few blocks up to Clark street there is a train station. The 2 or 3 trains run there. There is where I feel civilization begins. Businesses are all over. They have everything you can imagine to purchase you just have to know where to go. Organic products epicenter. Everything is organic or somewhat healthy. Restaurants are slightly more upper class and expensive for no reason. The plus of the area is the Promenade. The View pf the city is breathe taking at times. It is kind of water down a little because I live there for two and a half years now.

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