why there?

I chose this place because it looks like a place that had many hidden details just sitting there, as if it was waiting to be discovered. When looking in this area you feel as though there was a lot going on back then. From the strip across the street that has all the signs torn off and what used to be the dime savings bank building across the street that was there around the same time as the other stores you can feel that the area holds a sense nostalgia. I want to know more about the area in a whole, because I started searching to see what it looked like before right now but I couldn’t seem to find anything. In Colson Whitehead, “City Limits” it stated ” Or fifteen, twenty-five, a hundred neighborhoods. Thousands of people pass that storefront every day, each one haunting the streets of his or her own New York, not one seeing the same thing”. My area can be related to this package, because you can see the hidden history and as the dime savings bank is under construction to become something different, it won’t be the same place to everyone. It also stated ” Our old buildings still stand because we say them, moved in and out of their long shadows”. While the area i see is a place that is broken down that holds history, people who lived there are seeing the place they lived through.

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