At first I was quite hesitant towards this project, I wasn’t really sure if I was going to be able to go through with it until Monday rolled on in and Prof. Rosen had said we could take a stroll along our “campus” which she considers to be the area around the school for our project ideas. Shortly thereafter I had gone carelessly roaming around until I found myself in the streets of Dumbo, 68 jay streets to be exact. Then and there I decided to write about a factory looking building which is now an apartment building. This particular building stuck out to me because its design looked as if it was from the late 1930’s and it also had two platforms for water towers, but those were removed because they weren’t up there. The story I felt this building was communicating to me was although everything around you may change and things aren’t as original as they once were you have to remain the original you. Three passages I found in “city limits,” by colson whitehead which support my overlap story is in paragraph #2 when he says “You are a new Yorker when what was there before is more real and solid than what is there now”. As you can see the building is a part of the past but it’s still there which makes it realer than what we’ll ever know. Another passage is on the fourth paragraph where it says “I still call it the pan Am building, not out of affectation, but because that’s what it is. As I said the original can’t change.