Church found pre-1950

There is a Saint Agatha Roman Catholic Church in my neighborhood. Its location is 49th-street 7th Av. As the red board in the picture on the right side shows that it found 1912. There are baluster around the church and also set on the each step. In the picture you also can see the Agatha 's statuary on the left side of the picture. When i took the pictures i saw some small angell and droves right beside the Agatha's statuary. There is a bundle of flowers in front of the statuary. i think that was from a follower of Catholic. Everything beside the statuary are gawsy. Did it mean those things were take care by the Saint Agatha?

The picture on the left side is the whole field of vision of the Church. The stlye of the building looks like a castle.There are three exits: two small exits on both side of Church, and as the nomal building, the frontispiece is in the middle which is the biggest one. You can see the road in front of the church which is 49th-street was repairing and there are Four obstructs on the block. A tree perpendicularity but dried up. I could see many people assemble in the Church and the ding of the bell when i walk on the sidewalk every sunday. I never get into the Church.

Chapter 9 of Great American Cities

In Chapter 9, Jane Jacobs tells us her point is the most blocks must be short; The streets and opportunities to turn coners must be frequent. In the beginning of the chapter Jane talk abot that the advantages of short blocks are simple, and the she gave example about a men who live in Eighty-eight Street in Manhattan had grave trouble to reach stores on Columbus Avenue. Also, she talk about the relationship between the rconomic and those small block, because she think that economic effect of these self-isolating streets is equally constricting. so teh main point of this chapter is that she want to tell reader there are many way to change our city streets and how to make people be more convenient, to make the city better.

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Sunset Park is a neighborhood in the southern section of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, USA. The neighborhood is locate between 41st and 44th Streets and 5th and 7th Avenues. This is my first park i visited in New York. Last time i play volleyball with my friends there. When i get there many people play whatever sports they like: skate, football, and badminton. Many people lie on the lawn and enjoy the Sunset~ You can found more information about the park. If you are interesting in the Sunset park pllease click:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunset_Park,_Brooklyn

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The Brooklyn-Queens Connecting Highway which called I-278. I often pass though it when I take the bus or take my father's car. Regional Plan Association recommended the construction of a link between the Gowanus Parkway and the Triborough Bridgeat 1936, but it start at 1950. This highway brings more convinient for New Yorkers.There are more information i found on the website below:
http://www.nycroads.com/roads/brooklyn-queens/

My Neighborhood

Since Nov.2003 I was moved from China to the U.S.A. That night I saw many chinese signboard spread all over the Av. And I just heard that is 8 Av in Brooklyn(Small Chinatown). Since the 1980's, the neighborhood has attracted many immigrants from China centered on an area now known as 8th Avenue from 42nd to 62nd Street, where the city's third-largest Chinese community (after Manhattan's Chinatown and Flushing, Queens) can be found. Some of the reason the Chinese settled on 8th Avenue is because in Chinese folklore, the number eight is lucky for financial matters, and "8th Avenue" can be loosely interpreted as "road to wealth".

8th Av is road with Chinese businesses, including grocery stores, restaurants, Buddhist temples, video stores, bakeries, and community organizations, and even Hong Kong Supermarket. As the picture above shows the traffic was busy, people shopping on the streets. Another explanation is the direct subway ride to Manhattan's Chinatown on the N/R and D lines. If you don't want take subway you may take the small buses in the 8av the buses is express to the East Broadway which is the central of the chinatown in Manhattan. Finally, when you walk on the 8th Av, you can taste any chinese food and you can gather whatever information or the stuff you need. Some Chinese businesses are also appearing on parts of 7th Avenue, and east on 9th Avenue. Also, you can feel that you were in China, people's behavior and languages reveal that is a really chinese community. I felt that I never leave China.

The Great American cities7&8

Jacobs' argument in Chapter 7&8 are the generators of diversity and the need for mixed primary uses. In her opinions, she thought there are four conditions indispensable. The first thing is district, internal parts as possible, must serve more than one primary function, and then most blocks must be short; that is, streets and opportunities to turn corners must be frequent; Next, the district must mingle buildings that vary in age and condition. Finally, There must be sufficiently dense concentration of people, for whatever purposes they may be there. In these two chapters she collects and explains all of ideas by those four conditions. In combination, these conditions create effective economic pools of use.

My Apartment

I lived here about 4 years, as the picture shouws 7th Av 49th street,

I take this picture in the dusk, but you can see it clearly, every block has a traffic sign: light, stop sign, one-way sign and so on. The frame of the streets on Brooklyn are similar. My apartment's direction as the arrow shows on the right side that is between 6th and 7th Av, but if you start at 7th Av, you just need few second and you can see my apartment.

This orientation is in front of my apartment, I took the picture when the bus passed through the street in front of my apartment. This bus which called B11, I can hear the sound from the bus when I am awake in the morning. It is going to stop at the subway station after 10 minutes from here, therefore, I often take it for work or school. As the picture shows you can see many cars park there. Furthermore, you can see three garbage can, in the early morning, the old couple who lived in basement clean up and neaten those garbages, let's see the blue one in the right side is for the water bottle, soda can, and other container; the other 2 is for the sundries and papers.

This is my apartment, every one can see the style of buildings are similar on the whole row. These apartments connect and without space. Each apartment lived at least 3 families: basement, first floor, and the second floor. My apartment lived 4 families, but people had lack of communication in my building as we discussed in class.

When you go to the second floor, you can see two doors. I lived on the right side. Tonight is the Chinese New Year's Eve, so, you can see the patterns pasted on the doors. In our culture, the red color is dexter. People paste those patterns for luck. As the custom, you can find out that people who lived in the left side are Chinese ,too. Sometimes, i can see the women takes her children to the school in the morning.

Those are the pictures I took today. After you view these pictures and my descriptions do you know more about my apartment?