Category Archives: Week 3: Describing Diversity

     Ellick says he failed to penetrate and experience the “ethnic underground” of Jackson Heights and I believe it is because he did not try and immerse himself into the culture properly. I feel that the reason he felt … Continue reading →

The article that most rang true for me was Ellick’s New York Times article, “In Queens: A Melting Pot, A Closed Book”. Maybe this article touched me the most because a different perspective about the neighborhood I grew up in … Continue reading →

Ellick failed to truly immerse himself within the ethnic enclave of Jackson Heights. Nonetheless, he could have been more successful if he had visited the city with friends who possessed well-grounded connections within the city to act as his guide. … Continue reading →

I think that Ellick failed because his primary reason for moving to Jackson Heights in 2006 was to experience the discreet ethnic underworlds of Queens. But in the end, Ellick sums up his encounters by saying “the only authentic experiences … Continue reading →

As a white man in America, Adam B. Ellick has many advantages and privileges that immigrants can only dream of. On all platforms of media, white people are never under represented, and this is the case for high management positions … Continue reading →

Out of the three articles, I thought that Suketu Mehta’s article was the most intriguing. I enjoyed that he spoke about one building instead of discussing a whole neighborhood because I think a description of a neighborhood would be hard … Continue reading →

Mehta, Berger, and Ellick all portray the diversity of the outer boroughs in their own ways. As an immigrant living in the heart of Flushing, I can relate to many points these three authors make in their articles. Although my … Continue reading →

A few weeks ago in class, we were assigned a reading, “Characteristics of Third Places” by Ray Oldenburg. The major issues I found with that reading were the lack of examples of so-called “third places”, and the utopian nature of … Continue reading →

When reading Mehta, Berger, and Ellick’s pieces, I was able to see a general consensus. They speak about melting pot communities, in which there is much intermingling and still some impenetrability. In general, the diversity of New York is beautiful … Continue reading →