Everyone has their own memory toward their favorite place. Everyone will come out with their own version of place instead the place that they normally see. New York is one of the biggest and busiest city in the world. However, New York is changing dramatically in every single day. In New York, people can see the old places being replaced by the new places or two different period buildings crossing the timeline meeting each other on the same street. As a result, everyone will view New York differently depend on the time and experience. Everyone will end up with different memory in their own version of New York. People can always find juxtapositions in today’s New York.
Many people will have a different experience while they view New York in a different time. While people looking at an old photography, they never can feel the same feeling as the old people. By looking at an old photography, the color from old photography never can come out with the same color as today. An old photography is not just a simple photography, the quality of the photography carrying out a significant meaning of change in technology and science. Even though people can see how the old New York looks like in the old photography, people never can go back to experience the atmosphere of twenty century’s New York. People never can see how the fresh color in the past just painted on the building. However, people can easily find a fade color stick next to a fresh color on the same street. As the time lapsing, these old colors will be remembered in some people’s memory. These old colors also have a moment of bright as today’s colors on a new buildings. People should understand the importance of the juxtaposition because it carrying out a great contrast of old New York and today’s New York. The juxtaposition easily appears on today’s New York, however, people never have a chance to see that color being new again expect in few people’s memory.
People can see many juxtapositions while New York is changing dramatically. No matter is in the twenty century or the twenty-first century, New York is keep constructing many new buildings. While people meeting New York in a different period, these people will come out with a different version of New York. In some places, people growing in these places that cause people have different memory of these places. For some old classical buildings, people playing or hanging out with their friends in these old classical buildings. Comparing to today’s twenty-first century new modern building, the old classical buildings can easily awaken people’s valuable memory. In addition, people can easily find and see these old classical buildings often sticking next to these new modern buildings. However, some of these old classical buildings are being replaced, and people never realize that is happening in every single day. In Colson Whitehead’s “City Limits”, he said “I never got a chance to say goodbye to some of my old buildings” which also expressing people today’s emotion. Sometimes, people are being busy for living, so they missing a chance to say goodbye to their old places. However, people should feel thankful at least they have a chance meeting with these old places.
The juxtaposition is a symbol of change in technology. In the twenty century, New York is already considered as a new world. With the most conveniences subway system and the tall buildings, New York is always being on top of the world with these new technologies. However, as the time lapsing in the century, New York’s subway system is giving people an impression of filthy. However, what is the first feeling while people seeing the subway system first appear in New York? People never have a chance to experience the same feeling as the old people. In today’s technology, this subway system shouldn’t be existed or it should be reconstructed again. However, the subway system did not have a chance to be well maintained, so some people will have different view on the subway system compare to the old people. Compared to the old people, they may think this new technology is the symbol of their era. While other people thinking about the subway system should be reconstructed to become a new subway system to adapt to twenty-first century’s point of view. As a result, different people will have different version on New York, and these versions will impact people’s emotion even though they are looking at a same subway system.
In the end, people can easily find juxtapositions in today’s New York. We should feel thankful to the old New York that makes today’s New York brighter and more gorgeous. As Whitehead said “Our old building still stand because we saw them, moved in and out of their long shadows, were lucky enough to know them for a time”, these old buildings are still standing in people’s memory. No matter people missed a chance to say a final goodbye to these old places,but these old places will always stick with people. People can change a direction to think which they are not the one who watching New York but New York also watching people. In an old photograph compare to today’s photography, there are many new different people carrying different style and different culture on the same street. In the future, these new people will become old people once again, and people called the change is known as “nature”.
