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Court Street: Looking Forward, Looking Back
Walking along Court Street from the Borough Hall Station has become a part of my routine over the past few weeks. On my commute home, I have become familiar with this street as I am often found walking there to … Continue reading
Looking Forward, Looking Back
After completing the census tract of the area surrounding Bills Cyclery LLC, I had a couple questions I wanted answered going into this assignment. The first question is: Why was there a huge jump in diversity from 1970 to 1980? … Continue reading
Zooming out Zooming In (Shahdi)
The census data shows some very interesting trends about the area surrounding Bills Cyclery LLC in Jackson Heights. Currently, it is an extremely densely populated area with 82,742.5 people per square mile and is also very diverse with 38% of … Continue reading
Zooming in Zooming Out – Ralph’s
Ralph’s Discount City was a convenience store, located on Chambers street in New York. Eventually the store went out of business for many reasons primarily dealing with the fact that the neighborhood changed overtime and there wasn’t as many people … Continue reading
Your Story My Story – Silver Ring
My senior year of high school I joined a program called Witness Theater. This program allowed teenagers to meet with Holocaust survivors weekly and discuss their past and their journey to America. One of the members, Jack, told me about … Continue reading
Looking Forward, Looking Back: Bayside, Queens
Pesso’s Italian Ices is very well-known in the Bayside neighborhood. Although there are many surrounding ice cream chains like Baskin Robbins, which is only six blocks away, and Ralph’s Famous Italian Ices, which is a mile away, Pesso’s is the … Continue reading
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Zooming Out, Zooming In: Russ & Daughters
Due to the sheer amount of data that is available for analysis on Social Explorer, this post will focus on changes in the Lower East side between 1920 and 2015. Factors taken into account that are presumed to have had … Continue reading
Zooming in, Zooming out
The neighborhood that we analyzed was Jackson Heights and I decided to focus especially on the area around Khan’s Tutorial. Jackson Heights is very interesting because it is known as one of the most diverse places in the city. I … Continue reading
Why did BCD Tofu House choose K-Town?
Visiting BCD Tofu House, I found it rather interesting the demographic of customers they had. Iris, the hostess, had said that the majority of their customers were Chinese and that the second largest group was Korean people. Everyone else was … Continue reading
Zooming In, Zooming Out on Bayside, Queens
Pesso’s Italian Ices is located in the neighborhood Bayside, Queens. It serves delicious cold treats like ices, ice creams, and milk shakes to locals in town and visitors from outside the area. While walking along the block where the shop … Continue reading
