Category: Raw Data

Time: 11:19AM

Date: 4/25/16

Temperature: 64°F

Weather: Partly cloudy/mostly sunny

Dionysus Restaurant

Manavi Market

University of orthopedics of New York

Greek Superstore

Greek murals

Smell: car exhaust

Barbecue smoke

Smoke

Old white men chilling outside coffee shop

Conversations in other language

Sushi Hibachi

31st ave

Bangkok tasty

Taverna=bar

Pepsi shop

People chilling on the street doing nothing

Latin food

Mean-looking woman in a bar

There’s airplane in queens

People smoking

Raising Astoria maternity shop

Wires

Heros Gyro

Astoria park

People with babies on grass

Joggers

3/5/16 4PM

Field notes

Greek flag in playground

Kids playing basketball

Supermarkets and food (Chinese, Italian, pizza

7-eleven

Statues of Greek gods Athena (Athens square)

Statue of Sophocles, Aristotle, Socrates

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PS 17Q Henry David Thoreau School

Benches are in good shape

Black squirrel

Ginkgo trees (barren)

Temperature 43° F

Mount Sinai queens outpatient cancer center

Smells like food (grilled)

Perfume?? Laundry

Halal meat and grocery (growing Muslim grocery)

Unique chemists

People on bikes and skateboard

Apartment building and houses

Q18

Irish pubs

Taekwondo

Greek food (opa)

Bengali restaurant

Mosque

Grand central parkway traffic

Starbucks and deli

Zakir bakery

Two gas stations across from each other

Neptune diner

Select bus service to Harlem

People speaking Arabic

Police department

Spider-Man mural

Chilean cuisine

Hermes waste services

Albatross bar

He’ll gate bridge

Acela train to DC

Hooka stores

Tarot card psychic

Heard in the street: “can you stop being gay”

Astoria medical arts

Moroccan tea making guy creeped on Melissa

Asked for 1 tea, asked if she wants 4

Thai food

Arrived around 11:15

Mostly Greek stores (even groceries are Greek)

Diverse food options: sushi, pizza, Thai, Latin

More populated in some areas (23rd AV vs 22nd av)

Diversity in terms of ppl – many races

27th st quieter

Between 27th and 26th at family and body care

Ditmars Blvd more residential

Airplanes

Mostly quiet in park, birds chirping

Parents with their children sitting on grass

Arrived around 3:40, started going down 30th AV

A lot of ppl carrying groceries

Contemporary pop music playing at a market

Mix of ages, not many teenagers, mostly elderly or ppl in their 20s-30s

In the park a kid who looks like he’s under 10 talking on the phone wearing a Melo jersey

Elementary school right next to park has a lot of diff flags painted on it –> shows diversity of Astoria

Not many kids on the street, mostly in the playground and basketball court

Statue in the park

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Elementary school has lots of murals painted

Smells like something being grilled (in the park)

Different smell when leaving park

Relatively low traffic but not completely empty

Smelled like laundry when couple passed by carrying laundry

Relatively quiet besides cars passing by

Hear trains passing under the passageway

Grand central parkway backed up (heavy traffic)

Occasional conversations of ppl talking on phone passing by

Ppl speaking Arabic