Objective:
Apply the ethnographic methods of research you have already learned: walking, observation, and recording/editing, to explore a neighborhood of your choice.
Neighborhood: Jackson Heights
Track your route:
Deliverables:
The route I took was to walk around all the streets that were around Trevor park.
Observations and Reflection:
| The first thing I noticed was that the trees in some way looked rounder. Many of the leaves had fallen out just like the trees from the city yet for some reason, trees seemed to make the roads more spacious, and the branches grew out of the tree forming spheres. |
| I saw around three cars with funky colors, two of them were light green and the other one was light blue, the three of them look vintage, as cars that one would collect instead of use. |
| Indians wearing their traditional clothing mostly females.
Less homeless people found. |
| There were more “bodegas”, little shops, little markets and people selling stuff outside. People from every age were working, it didn’t seem like an easy job working outside on the cold. |
| Just as in the city, people (who work in restaurants for example) go outside for a quick break, usually they smoke a cigarette. |
| I found little triangular flags attached from beside the side of a street to the other side. It looks like a thing rope with different color triangular flags. That’s a decoration when there are festivities in my country (Peru) and coincidentally that street was predominantly Latin markets and small Latin restaurants. |
| It was very interesting how on the street that the Asian population predominated you could also see how the small shops carried the name of an Asian sounding last name and some of them also had the brand but on their language above it. |
| In a more local area, Big brands such as Dunkin Donuts or McDonalds had almost the same amount of clients that the small local shops also had. |
| I did not find as many clothing shops, yet the small amount I saw, half of them were contemporary clothing while the other half was either funky looking clothing and vintage dresses. |
| I think by Jackson Heights having smaller buildings made in a way the streets wider, for some reason walking around the streets seemed more open, yet the little shops almost always occupied some part of the sidewalk with products. |
