After the first visiting of our neighborhood, in the seminar class we incorporated other readings to talk more about the people contacts, sidewalk and Strategy & Tactics so it gave me more sense of how sidewalk could be an important element to look at the relationship between people and how people use and misuse the environment.
Before I went back to the neighborhood that I choose ( Lenox Hill), I started reading the Observing Physical Trace which is a reading that tells readers or observers, how to observe and record your surroundings in detail. This time when I went back the neighborhood, instead of looking around without any thought. I started to look at people on the street, what are the people living in this neighborhood, or who will be appear in there. In this neighborhood, I did not see any tourists and teenagers. I often see a parent with their kids or couple elder people hanging around. From this information, I could said that this neighborhood might be an old neighborhood, I can also see from the design of the building. They were not modern looking building or skyscraper. The reason that here has less teenage could be in the morning they were at school or here has very few high school. More, I noticed that the sidewalk here you often see people were talking, they seems like neighbors. I thought how they knew each other could be the encourage of the environment, there are church and parks around here to gathering people. Moreover, I have visited the neighborhood in the morning, afternoon and night, there were bags of trash on the street. Even they were not smelly or messy, they all pack very neatly in the garbage bag but still make the street looks not clean. As I walked in there longer, I saw places were not for garbage also fill with trashes. So I started wondering, do they have not enough storage for garbage inside their house? Or they did this because other people were doing it? Also, there were lots of bicycles on the street. There were not enough of bike rack so they just lock their bike in front of the store. Cleaning stores were also much more than the usual in Lenox Hill. The cleaning store and laundry room were so many and close with each other. Trash, bicycles and cleaning stores on the street are visible in the space and it make me think about it might be not enough of space in the building because if is new skyscrapers they usually have bike storage place, trash room and plenty of washing machines.
However, I thought this area would be convenient neighborhood to live, because lots of stores are located in here. There were different banks, supermarket, convenience stores like CVS. One thing I would said was not so convenience was the subway. There were not as much subway as midtown. Mostly are yellow line.
For the imposed on inhabitants that I found was building were older and there were stairs in the front door and it would be hard for them to carry heavier stuffs so they made a slope plate to let people carry things easier.
Finally, Lenox Hill was sort of easy but also hard to map it because it is not really big and curving around but for many streets looks similar so probably hard to see a lot of differences from the map.
