Time Square: The noise, the lights, the insurmountable amount of people. You can’t throw a stick in Time Square without hitting an advertisement or someone in a costume taking pictures with tourists for tips. Time Square is a tourist haven for people who want the “New York City Experience” when they find themselves on the island of Manhattan. There’s always a cab to take or a restaurant that you can find in any small town.

My Neighborhood: Maspeth is the kind of town where you have 6 pizza places you could walk to within a few minutes. It’s quiet and not much to look at. The 2 elementary schools and middle school in the area make the weekday afternoons noisy and crowded. Once upon a time Maspeth was a majority Italian and Polish, but with the changing times it’s diversified into a melting pot.

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.

Ann-Marie Totaram

Times Square – city lights, yellow cabs, tourist bus, traffic jamming, and people dressed up as Sponge Bob, Elmo, and Mickey Mouse trying to make some fast money. Crowded area where tourist are constantly stopping and looking around, taking pictures, while people from the area are rushing trying to go home from work. Area is always crowded and bright. With all the billboards around, clothing stores, restaurants, movie theaters and other attractions catching everyone’s attention. Guys at every block trying to get people to catch some comedy show. Streets are pretty clean, loud area, lots of buildings.

My neighborhood- living in Brooklyn between Bushwick and Broadway. The block is usually quiet, during the afternoon you’ll hear cars honking because school buses are causing traffic. Elementary school and two high schools 2 blocks away. J train line , and B38 bus running. Friendly people, everyone that passes you says “hello” or smiles. Not much too do around here though.