1. How the traffic light works?
Most of the streets are single way, which is easy to control and reduce the mistakes of the traffic light.
2. Why people walk through the street before the traffic light becomes green?
The city is a rush city, people all have very busy life. If they run out of time, it becomes very often to rush for time.
3. Why most of the streets are single way?
It could help the city to become more efficient rather than LA.
4. How the government decided where the communal facilities located?
Each neighborhood has subway station, grocery store, park, bank and so on. Each one is walkable distance.
5. Why there are some huge differences between blocks and blocks?
Different people live in different blocks and neighborhood. Upper east is rich people’s place. Mid town is more like a landmark. Downtown is mixed. Because of different people live in different neighborhood, the appearance of the neighborhood is different.
6. Why does the specific group choose to live in this neighborhood?
In my neighborhood, the most of the people are students, also some young people live in this neighborhood.
7.Why the culture in that neighborhood could survive in that neighborhood?
Japanese food, Chinese food, Mexican Food, American fast food, Pakistan food.
8. Compared with other cities or countries, what is the difference of dressing style?
Compared with other city, such as LA or SF. New Yorker more care about their dressing style. In the west, people could wear like a cow boy to go to work or go to school. But in NY, everyone wants to be styled.
9. Why in the neighborhood choose this kind of building style?
The building style is very old, it is not like a modern American city.
10. Why people pay attention to that public activities?
Each holiday the neighborhood or the city will have some activities. Some political event happens, people will parade.
11. How about the crime rate in this neighborhood?
My neighborhood is very good, No Crime.
12. How does the weather affect people’s daily activities?
Cold and snow in winter. Hot in Summer.
13. Which language was spoken by the people in this neighborhood?
Almost all language can be spoken in this neighborhood, but the majority is English.
14. Why people choose that way to celebrate holidays?
Fashion Week, Restaurant week! And regular holiday.
15. How does people use the city? Or how does the city use the people?
Entertainment, shopping, studying and relax.
16. Who is famous in my neighborhood?
Warhol Superstars, Kiki Smith, Perter Halley, Keith Haring and so on.
17. What the famous people did in my neighborhood?
Art work.
18. Why people love to stay in the city?
Different food, art supplies, street art working place, different brand of cloth.
19. Why so many homeless people live in the city?
I don’t know yet, it depends on the future.
20. What is the living style the people lived in this neighborhood?
Busy Busy Busy.
21. How does people feel when they walk through the city?
Indifferent, fancy, independent, busy.
22. What is the most common traffic way people choose?
walking and subway.
23. What is the night of city looks like?
Still like day time.
24. What is the goal of the people lived in the neighborhood have?
To be self.
25. What kind of relationship between human and the nature in the neighborhood?
From what I see, the city and the nature is quite in peace. But the city produce to much trash….
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