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.

The reason for why I chose this area where because one it was near the school I was tired honestly I didn’t feel like walking much and I had class in like 30 minutes I wasn’t trying to late. But I noticed a lot of things I don’t see around where I live I saw a high school that looked like a building where businesses would have there business location or where governments would have there buildings located. Around where I live high schools have like a small campus in front and they look like castles or mini buildings but this high school looked like a 6+ story building and it was a high school so it caught my interest. Also as I walked down the road I noticed nice hotels delis and bar and restaurants and it was dope like that whole road was just mixed it wasn’t just one certain thing it was a mixed of food places a high school and hotels. And before I turned back to school I saw a building that just said in big words bar and restaurant and it was like straight to the point it didn’t have a name like shenanigans or Big ales or Hooters or Buffalo wild wings It was just plain and simple Bar and restaurant and I found that dope cause not many places are that simple they go extra and come up with a name but this place was like simple bar & restaurant and I liked the location as well it was across the Manhattan building so like you have a great view. So yeah thats pretty much why I chose the area I did to explore.

The location that I chose is called Eagle Warehouse and Storage Company, its about a 15-20 minute walk from city tech. To get there you can walk to Whitman and Cadman Park. You are going to see a huge monument called the Brooklyn War memorial. You are going to want to keep walking up Cadman Plaza until you get to Old Fulton Street. As you walk down you are going to see a huge white colored building called Grimaldis pizza, which is right across the street. The Warehouse caught my eye because it was a huge red brick colored building and it also looked different from all of the other buildings in the area. Believe it or not this is actually an 9 story apartment building. The Juxtaposition for this building is that a newspaper company called the Brooklyn edge was here. Their newspaper was called the brooklyn daily eagle and a popular journalist named Walt Whitman edited their articles. This is currently a million dollar Apartmant building.

To get started I decided to go to a hotel near by the school for many reason. One of the reasons why, was because of gentrification. Another was the fact that many fancy, expensive hotels are built in the an area for a reason. Plus a lot of money is going to this hotel to make it look the way it’s suppose to look. Picking a hotel strike me because people come all over the world to come to New York to experienced the New York life. So these hotels are built to make it seem like it’s a dream, where the city never sleeps. Reason why they have hotel is because when people come to visit New York and want to party and explore they have hundreds of hotels around New York where people can stay at. While having fun and getting get service that of course they pay for for the whole experience. One of the articles explains more about how the hotel was built and the whole process of it being built . The other article tells a little more about how hotels are causing  gentrification around the area and neighborhoods.

These are the two articles

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