East Village detailed and simplifies maps
I represented my neighborhood with photographs I took while visiting it. I made some observations and found that this was a very animated area for a lot of different reasons. Through blends and colorful photos I have made my own psycho geographic map of my experience in the village.
14th Street
Observations:
- Cars
- Busses
- Cabs
- Trucks
- Small businesses (dry cleaners, hotdog stands, pizza stands etc.)
As 14th street in the East village is a very busy traffic street, I decided to represent the street itself and its car circulation. To give that effect of speeding cars, that sense of movement, the photos are blended all together.
Grunge
Observations:
- Art
- Music
- Graffiti
- ‘Grunge’ feel
This neighborhood has a very strong culture of art and music, especially in the 80s when there was a huge counterculture of the arts rising. Where that ‘grunge’ style was standing out the most I chose to represent numerous picture of the graffiti and art I found walking through that area.
Nature?
Observations:
- Tompkins square park
- Nature
- Contrasting with the rest of the neighborhood
Tompkins square park is very different from the rest of the neighborhood with its tall trees and fountains. I really wanted to represent that park on my map as I find it a big part of it for its natural beauty.
Gastronomy
Observations:
- Restaurants
- Food culture
- Very varied types of food
- More or less successful and big businesses
The first thing I noticed in the East village were the tons of restaurants, from all different cultures, where I felt the population was the most concentrated.
Saint Marks Place
Observations:
- Mosaics
- Colorful
- Punks
- Weird shops
- Can find absolutely any thing (for cheap)
Represented in the same shape as 14th street, Saint Marks place really has its own character with all these old, very small and sometimes strange businesses. Everything is very colorful, almost kitch, with its wide range of sunglasses, shoes, dolls, piercing, smoking pipes etc. I though a good way to represent that liveliness was to use images of the famous St Marks Place mosaics, disposed all along the trees on poles and walls.