Telling Brooklyn Stories

The people, parks, and ambience of Brooklyn was a selection  written by Gloria Deak that describes the Brooklyn ferry, and well as Brooklyn’s past before becoming a part of New York. She describes the primary function of the ferry as being a ferry between New Amsterdam and Brooklyn. The perils and negative points in taking the aformentioned ferry. She also delves into the pride and self-worth that Brooklynites came to develop during the late 1800s-early 1900s. She also goes into Coney Island and Luna Park, which were two big attractions in Brooklyn and examples of pivotal playgrounds for the youth during these times. The part of her selection that really caught my eye was the decline of Brooklyn during this time. With the closure of the parks and the relocation of the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team, Brooklyn seemingly lost some of its “flair”. I don’t believe this to be the case, as did many people during that time. Brooklyn still had its pride, sewn into the hearts of its inhabitants. It still had the memory of its accomplishments and the view it had of itself. The agriculture that it was founded upon and focused on. Brooklyn did not decline in the slightest. It only became stronger for having lost a couple of things but keeping the most important, the love it had for itself.

During the walking tour, we as a class traveled from City Tech to the outskirts of the brooklyn historical society. I was able to see many different sites and scenery. I noticed the many greenery that exists near and around the school. The first stop on the tour was to the building where you go to declare bankruptcy. It was a theater back in the day that way the site of a horrific fire. This fire claimed the lives of many people, more than what was even accounted for when it was first reported. This theater was a very prominent place for people to watch plays and it prospered from its many audiences before the fire.     We were then brought to a statue of a not very well known anti-slavery activist named Beacher. He was known for his very controversial methods towards showing his views on racism and slavery. Lastly we walked the rest of the way to the brooklyn historical society and we able to examine the outskirts of the building. The building had many faces, faces that were well known throughout history. Overall, the walking tour was fun and a great learning experience. We were able to see different side to the area around our school and what historic sites once stood in the surrounding area.

last week Wednesday we went on a walking tour with to young ladies form the Brooklyn historical society. we did not  stray far from our school. and yet it seemed we walked into whole other world , i did not realize i knew so little about the buildings or statues i pass by each and every day. the first stop we mad was at he post office/slash court hourse. we found out that day before that post office was there,  once stood the Brooklyn theater. the biggest one in Brooklyn at the time until, because if all it safety hazards the place burned down killing 300 people.next we cross the street to where saw a statue of henery ward Beecher who was probably the famous anti slavery activist i n America yet the least known today. he was famous for hes dramatic demonstrations of slavery and sparked a fire in so many people to support him. he was also know for supporting cild welfare. that area was originally called dumbo and was one the first free black neighborhoods in Brooklyn. then we headed of to bhs.  the building was quite big and right of the bat you can see the artique and all the work that was put in to it . the building is considered to be a land mark and never to changed.  it was made to represent the greatness of the white aristocrat which it did job of doing. on it you can long island historical society . because Brooklyn was orginally apart of long island. and that was our tour.

Where I’m from, Ave U. I been living here since I was born. An area with most white and Asian people around the area.

Where I’m from, with kind neighbors. It gets really dark at night, with very little light and very quiet. I heard people’s houses got broken into a few times, around the area

Where I’m from, you take the Q train to get here. There are many food markets and the products that they sell in the market is really cheap. Very convenient for food shopping and many different restaurants and bakeries.

Where I’m from, is a average population, sometimes there it gets really crowded during the weekend. People shop for food and during the morning they go to Chinese bakery for a coffee and bread.

Where I’m from, Not too many thugs, It can be safe neighbors at times and at a certain time it could be a bad neighborhood.

Where im from Glenwood, youll find many different cultures. ranging from pakistani to indian to bengali to Caucasian to black. we wall live peacefully together in harmony.

where im from if you walk down the street you would smell different aromas every step you take. the food here is amazing! we have street vendors, gyros and many foods from different cultures.

where im from cars are always passing by because i live right on coney island ave. you could see many different cars. mercedes, audi, BMW, toyotas, Hondas even broken down rusty cars from the 80s.

where im from i call it little pakistan because almost everyone in my neighborhood is pakistani. where im from culture mix and become very interesting. where im from we always hold a day parade on aug 14 to celebrate our independence day. artists and politicians come from across the globe to participate in this event. people from many different states to come enjoy and have fun.

where im from i can stay outside till 12 and i would have no worries about any theft or anything. where im from everyone knows me. where im from i dont feel like an outsider i feel at home. everyone around me is friendly and open to new people.

where im from asian uncles and aunties bargain for every penny to get their item cheaper. we do drive a hard bargain. i guess we’re known for that. where im from everyone wants to play basketball and become the next big thing. the parks are always full with kids talking trash playing and having fun.

where im from is glenwood and thats where i call home.

in our english class we were visited by to women that were from BHS. it started as a normal english class however we were in or speech room instead of our english room. we did a very interesting activity. Professor Rosen gave us vocabulary words and our task was to define each word and put it in a category. This was kind of like archival research. it was to help us prepare for what we will be doing in BHS. after we defined the words we were suppose to tape the paper under a category that the word best fit in. this activity was very fun. we then moved to our english class because there was a class that was suppose to be in the speech classroom after us. Our two guests gave us forms for video and photo release just so they have our permission. they went over specific regulations that we would need to follow in order to protect the documents that were in BHS. this was very helpful because i found out that even light can hurt a document and shatter it. this was very interesting. I also learned that we cannot take any document or any artifact home. we then continued our walking tour around downtown brooklyn. we arrived at place where there used to be a theater that burned down to the ground. we also talked about a famous speaker back in the days who is not well known anymore. we ended our tour at BHS. we were dismissed from there and sent home or to our next class.

Hello fellow classmates, I’m Michael, here to briefly summarize our SPE 1330 class today. Now, this started as a normal day, with professor Davis coming in, but professor Rosen was there as well. Professor Davis started us off by telling us about a speech on Monday. It will be an impromptu speech. Then we were informed that we would be having a walking tour later on. After this, we had guests from the Brooklyn historical society (Julie Golia, and Robin Katz) come in, and speak to us. They told us a bit about the BHS, and we split in to groups. While in our groups, we managed to do an activity, with defining, and categorizing vocabulary. After this, we went over what these words meant inside the BHS.

Do not forget that the speech on Monday will be timed. It should be around 1 minute and twenty seconds long. The first ten seconds should consist of your introduction, then twenty seconds each fro your three main points. The last ten seconds should be the conclusion. There is really nothing else to prepare for Monday, so good luck to you all.