Field Notes
- More people speaking in Spanish
- people speaking in Arabic and some in Indian
- A lot of kids with backpacks
- parents with children
- family area
- not a lot of college students
- don’t see any people walking alone, always in groups
- a lot of restaurants, not coffee shops or places to sit down and work
- not green areas, didn’t see any parks
- so many buildings and apartments
- as it gets away from the subway street it gets more residential and less commercial
- so may mixed restaurants from all over the world
- do the people who run the restaurants live in JH or are they from somewhere else?
- Have any big restaurant chains come to JH as a sign of gentrification?
- how does the lack of public spaces impact people’s lives?
