Who Are We?

A Tale of Five Musketeers

About Us

About Us

We are five students who are a part of the Macaulay Honors College at Brooklyn College. For our second semester seminar focused on the people

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Where I'm From

A short documentary on Jay Z and his influence on Barclays Center and surrounding areas

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Experience Downtown Brooklyn with all Five Senses

Notes from the Field

Below are the notes we took while visiting our site, each focusing on the sense we used to experience our environment. As ethnographers, it was our duty

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Touch

We decided to represent touch through the materials and textures of the buildings and structures present in the area. The document below analyzes our efforts

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Smell

There were a few main smells I kept picking up on that to me incorporated the theme of the Barclay Center and the transition it

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Taste

Mission: Ethnographic Study of Taste Destination: Downtown Brooklyn I’m not a world renowned chef. My knowledge of food culture does not compare to Anthony Bourdain’s,

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Listen

7:30 A.M. Sounds heard in Downtown Brooklyn aren’t too unique to the neighborhood. What’s unique is the evolution of the sounds throughout the day. On my

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Look

For a more comprehensive explanation of the context for many photos presented below, explore the following document at your leisure. It contains field notes taken

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Discover Events, Entertainment, and More in Downtown Brooklyn

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An Annotated Bibliography for You to Skim

Design

Design

Sending reporters into the newly opened Barclays Center, The Verge explores the intersection of technology...
Community

Community

This article details the success of Ample Hills Creamery, citing the ice-cream shop as a...
Real Estate

Real Estate

“A Short History Of The Brooklyn Stadium Jay Z Helped Put On the Map” highlights...
Business

Business

The article “Barclays in Brooklyn: How the Arena Has Changed The Borough,” starts off by...
Popularity

Popularity

Brooklyn, a borough with a huge population, has less hotels than Rochester. This is because...
Parking

Parking

Written by the people and for the people, Streetsblog NYC covers transportation policy and sustainability...
Gentrification

Gentrification

In an article written by Gus Lubin right before the Barclays opened called, “Six Months...
Art

Art

Compiled into a Tumblr blog, An Ongoing Photographic Survey of Downtown Brooklyn offers an unbiased...
Food

Food

This article details the participation of Park Slope’s Artichoke Bastille Pizza in The New York...
Education

Education

A group of ninth graders were taken to the Barclays Center for a hockey game...

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How it Felt to be Amateur Ethnographers

The Texturalist
The Texturalist

Prior to engaging in this research assignment my knowledge of the area surrounding the Barclays Center was just that, an idea of the Barclays Center. Truth

The Texturalist
The Perfumist
The Perfumist

In the heart of Downtown Brooklyn lies a unique center of entertainment and bustle, a neighborhood with a long and rich history laced with interminable

The Perfumist
The Audio Engineer
The Audio Engineer

To me, Downtown Brooklyn used to be place where my grandpa worked. The associations I ever had with the area were Court Street, Artichoke Pizza and

The Audio Engineer
The Food Critic
The Food Critic

When I first started this ethnographic study, I knew one thing: if my group was dividing the study based on the five senses, then I

The Food Critic
The Photographer
The Photographer

Born and bred in Brooklyn, I often found myself at Atlantic Terminal Mall browsing through low-priced sweaters at Target. Happy to have a wide variety

The Photographer