Day one of my Gotham experience class and I was feeling very anxious for the day to start. I took the 7:45am train to Penn Station from Valley Stream, only because class starts at 9am and I needed to grab some breakfast and buy a metro card. I did not mind the class being pushed up to 9am-5pm, after day light savings it would become dark very early and we would not be able to see the awesome sites Mike and Brian would be taking us too. Today, we were going to explore the borough of Queens. The only experience I have had in Queens is going to Mets Game, other than that that is it. We met at the spot Mike said we were going to meet in Penn Station, and we took the E line to the Number 7 train. The Number 7 train was going to take us to the
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“Today Flushing Meadow Park continues to provide Queens residents with green space and recreational opportunities” (ENY, 243). We sat on the bleachers and Mike and Brian gave us a lecture on how the class was going to go. It seemed Mike had this word he always kept mentioning, the word was gentrification. He stated gentrification was the renovation and revival of deteriorated neighborhoods. The neighborhoods shifted in lifestyle because the wealthier residents and increased property value. It all made sense. People of lower class were living in for example Queens and someone wealthy would rebuild a building, then adding value to the community in the outcome of attracting more people of the middle/high class in the future. As we walked out through the park, we also had the view of the stadium of city field and where the U.S. Open was held this past summer. We continued walking until we saw this huge steel structure, which appeared to be a globe. I have seen this figure once or twice in my entire life, but not before this class did I know it meant meaning. If I drove past with my mother she always talked about the World’s Fair in the past, but I had no clue what she was talking about. I thought she was only recalling some childhood memories of hers. My mother did live in Queens as a child, and go to school in lower Manhattan, but she did not really talk much about her past in …show more content…
Long Island City transformed rapidly in the past recent years. Many people who lived here on the water, got to view Manhattan. These high desirable communities were New Yorkers who want to be close to Manhattan without paying Manhattans real estate prices. The other beautiful feature Long Island City has is the highest concentration of art galleries, art institutions and studio space of all the neighborhoods in New York City. When we were walking along the streets of this neighborhood, there was a lot of comparing the old to the new. There was also construction taking place of new skyscrapers that were going up, and under the assumption that they are going to be living space for people. The price of living on the water in the city is now in the millions, and not that affordable in my eyes. When we reached the new boardwalk on the water, the view was amazing. Those are the views that make me love New York City. I want to go back to this spot with my family and have them intake the same beautiful view I did. (ENY,
“Today Flushing Meadow Park continues to provide Queens residents with green space and recreational opportunities” (ENY, 243). We sat on the bleachers and Mike and Brian gave us a lecture on how the class was going to go. It seemed Mike had this word he always kept mentioning, the word was gentrification. He stated gentrification was the renovation and revival of deteriorated neighborhoods. The neighborhoods shifted in lifestyle because the wealthier residents and increased property value. It all made sense. People of lower class were living in for example Queens and someone wealthy would rebuild a building, then adding value to the community in the outcome of attracting more people of the middle/high class in the future. As we walked out through the park, we also had the view of the stadium of city field and where the U.S. Open was held this past summer. We continued walking until we saw this huge steel structure, which appeared to be a globe. I have seen this figure once or twice in my entire life, but not before this class did I know it meant meaning. If I drove past with my mother she always talked about the World’s Fair in the past, but I had no clue what she was talking about. I thought she was only recalling some childhood memories of hers. My mother did live in Queens as a child, and go to school in lower Manhattan, but she did not really talk much about her past in …show more content…
Long Island City transformed rapidly in the past recent years. Many people who lived here on the water, got to view Manhattan. These high desirable communities were New Yorkers who want to be close to Manhattan without paying Manhattans real estate prices. The other beautiful feature Long Island City has is the highest concentration of art galleries, art institutions and studio space of all the neighborhoods in New York City. When we were walking along the streets of this neighborhood, there was a lot of comparing the old to the new. There was also construction taking place of new skyscrapers that were going up, and under the assumption that they are going to be living space for people. The price of living on the water in the city is now in the millions, and not that affordable in my eyes. When we reached the new boardwalk on the water, the view was amazing. Those are the views that make me love New York City. I want to go back to this spot with my family and have them intake the same beautiful view I did. (ENY,