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Zooming In, Zooming Out
I chose to do more research and insight on the business of McSorley’s Old Ale House and the neighborhood surrounding it. Being the oldest bar still standing in New York City, it’s safe to say it’s been located in the … Continue reading
The Willets Point Conundrum
The redevelopment of the “Iron Triangle” can be understood in the context of a powerful economic force that is driving enormous changes in the economies of nations and municipalities everywhere: globalization. Unfortunately, industrial places like Willets Point don’t really have a … Continue reading
Zooming Out, Zooming In
For the Oral History project, my partner Amanda and I focused all of our interviews in Brooklyn, in particular, the Bay Parkway and 86th Street area. Playing with the Social Explorer, I set the the time scale all the way … Continue reading
Zooming In, Zooming Out
From well-dressed residents idyllically walking their purebred dogs to the superlative customer service Joanne and I were received with at local businesses, Court Street in Carroll Gardens in many ways reminded me of the Upper East Side. Nonetheless, the neighborhood … Continue reading
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Link to my story: http://yourstory.tenement.org/artifacts/ludo
Zooming In, Zooming Out
During our second round of interviews, Ariane and I decided to focus on businesses in Bayside. We interviewed her dad who worked at K.H. Chong’s Martial Arts Academy, located near Springfield Blvd. in Bayside. Using Social Explorer, I researched many … Continue reading
Reading Response
When reading excerpts of God in Chinatown by Kenneth J. Guest, the enclave model that Portes and Bach suggested seemed too optimistic. For example, they spoke about two waves of immigrants; the first wave is made up of entrepreneurs who … Continue reading
Ethnic Enclaves
In Guest’s “God in Chinatown”, Portes and Bach describe the function of ethnic enclaves as a method to “utilize networks of ethnic solidarity to mobilize needed cultural or social capital”, and the way that ethnic enclaves are capable of generating … Continue reading
Enclaves, Eyesores, and the Willets Point Repair Shop
Guest underscores street-by-street observation as an ideal means of data collection within ethnic enclaves particularly within the Chinese community of New York City. Distinct from the institutionalized position of religion in Western societies, religion in China is intertwined into the … Continue reading
Zooming Out, Zooming In
Blue Stockings is located at 172 Allen Street on the Lower East Side. Using Social Explorer, I looked into the demographics of the Lower East Side, and specifically, of Census Tract 30.01 where Blue Stockings is located. In the census … Continue reading
