The 10 Questions

1) what is your mane?
2) How long do you living in this neighborhood?
3) What do you like and dislike about this neighborhood?
4) has this neighborhood change since you move in? How does it change?
5) What's you opinion about the change in this neighborhood? or How does the change affect you?
6) Do you feel safety in this neighborhood? and why?
7)Do you feel convenient to go shop around you neighborhood?
8) What's you major mode of transportation?
9) Do you think on increase polices and police's rights make you feel more safety?
10) Do know well about your neighbors?

chapter 9 (The need for small blocks

There is the need of short blocks for man, because at socially isolated neighborhood, people can not communicate. Socially deprived neighborhoods have blocks structured so that when commuting will take place adjacently. The Columbus Avenue is in monotony where commercial buildings dull the place. The author has her children growing up in monotony environment, but wanted to let her children experience a variety of paths. The long, monotonous blocks in Manhattan acts like a barrier which basically blocks off all of the communication or social interactions that a city or neighborhood should have. If by having smaller blocks, the commuter would have a wider variety of paths to choose from, therefore having a chance to explore the neighborhood, for e.g. buying, eating, drinking, sightseeing, etc. Thus, the relationship is reciprocal(Jacobs 186).

The Only Supermarket Around

Not far form my house; there is a big supermarket, as you can see in the picture. And it is the only one around my neighborhood. Before, I think people built it because of business, people want to gain money. But now, it is different. They built it for us also. It is the idea of maxed primary use, to make the city work, to make us feel more convenient living in this neighborhood, to make our lives more easily; we need a big supermarket around, a place that has everything we need.
I remember, before the supermarket has built, whenever I want to buy food to cook my lunch or dinner, I have to walk like 10 streets to buy them. Then I hate to cook at home, whenever I feel hungry, I will either order food or go out to eat, because there are many restaurants and stores around. But for the people who have family to take, they can not order or go out to eat at every meal. Thus they have to go to the supermarket either 10 streets away or drive event farer, and they have to buy more then enough for a meal but few days maybe a week, because they can not do this for every meal. Today, we don’t have to think about it any more. Whenever we need to cook, we can go to this big supermarket near our homes and get whatever we need.
There’s more, after the supermarket was built, neighbors tent to have better relationship. We have more often to see each others, and some times we will talk whenever we meet at the supermarket or the sidewalks.
As a conclusion, this supermarket is building in a right place. It is not only offer a convenient place for our neighbors to go but a place that where neighbors can get what they need for living in here.

The Woodhaven New Life Untied Methodist Church

For class assignment, I have been asking to find a building was built at 1950s or before in the neighborhood where I live. The first thing in my mind is “nothing”, because as I remember, I have never see any building look old as it was build here for more than 50 years. When I walk around and ask neighbors, they tell me that here only have two buildings were built before 1950s, the one is a public primary school and other one is the Woodhaven New Life Untied Methodist Church.

For some reason, I want to take a look of the more than 50 years old church. I have heard the church bell ring everyday but I have never bee there. I am not religion, so I never go to church at Saturday or Sunday. It is not point to going to church if you are not religion.

The Woodhaven New Life Untied Methodist Church gives me a first look is small, but not thing special. It is too small to compare with those church in Fashion, or church at Wall Street, a little Bell Tower with small house behind. Next to the tower, there are 3 little doors exist from the little house. The right side of the tower has a gate, and there is a little stone statue of angle, her face looks kind and she is praying. I don’t know why, she make me feel warm and safety even thought it is snowing and cold today. On the top of the statue, there is a iron tablet and it has wrote it was built at World War II and to commemoration for the honor of those soldiers who were fighting and die for defending their countries. When I see a lot of people stepping out form those 3 little doors, I go up and ask, “Why there are so many people go to the church today?” Someone tells me that at every Saturday and Sunday or holiday they will come to the church and pray, and that is “part of my life”. Like technology for toady’s people, this church is small but very important for the people who living at the neighborhood, it is part of their lives.

What is the percent of different race population in Woodhaven New York?

According to the statistics for these two websites, in Woodhaven New York; there is 47.9% of White population, 18,054. The Black or African American population is 5.3%, 1,999. American Indian and Alaska Native populations are 257, 0.7%. Asian populations are 5,155, 13.7%. Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander populations are 30, 0.1%. Some other race population is 9,544, 25.3%. And Hispanic or Latino (of any race) population is 16,414, 43.6%. As you can see, even thought the neighborhood has mixed with different race, the populations of White and Hispanic or Latino have more then half of the total population. Those two websites not only showed the statistics of population of race, but Social, Economic, and Housing Characteristics. Also you can find all those information for any place or neighborhood by typing the zip code in those websites.

11421 Zip Code Detailed Profile <http://www.city-data.com/zips/11421.html> . 2008/2/ 11
Brainy Zip<http://www.brainyzip.com/zipcodes/11/11421.html>. 2008/2/11

http://www.city-data.com/zips/11421.html

http://www.brainyzip.com/zipcodes/11/11421.html

The generators of diversity and The need for mixed primary uses

Diversity is the noteworthy part of the city; it represents accident, chaos, mystery chance and opportunity. The generator of city diversity is the immense numbers of population. Huge amount of city population can produce many different opportunity to different kinds of people for their needs, wherever for economical or living, and businesses. There are four most considerable conditions for well cities planning; “Most blocks must be short. District must have severed more than one primary function. The district must mingle buildings. And there must be a sufficiently dense concentration of people, for whatever purpose they may be there.” For the mixed primary in the city, there should be more than one mixed primary faction and enough for different people to use whatever at the same time of a day of different time in a day. People possess more “convince, liveliness, variety and choice then they ‘deserve’ in their own right.”

Woodhaven

When you look at the picture, it is no different form most of the sidewalks in New York. But when you there, you can feel and hear the differences. In here, Woodhaven, people live in their single house whatever with black or font yard, a huge window handing with many little lines. When dark is rising, everybody will turn their little lines on. Those shiny little lines look like many stars have fail at the ground, and handing at people’s windows. However, beautiful lines at night is not the most special thing it has, living in here, you don’t need the time to remind you to do anything, because you can hear it and feel it. Every time, when your body feels hot or your eyes feel hurt form lines, and many formulary voices whatever from kids or adults, such are “did you do the homework? Want to swim at YMCA tonight? Hurry up! We will be late!” and so on, straight into your ears, you will notice that it is time to wake, morning is coming. Whenever you hear the church bell ringing, you know that it time for lunch, it is twelve o’clock. And when you smell tasteful Chinese food, piquant Indian food or fire-chicken, fire-potato instead of, don’t need for me to say it, you know it is time for dinner. There’s more, like its name Woodhaven. It will become to “Heaven” many time at each year. At spring, the season with full of lives and hopes, flowers and trees are growing. People’s font and back yards are cover with immense numbers of white flowers and flowers that fail from the trees. They look like there just have snowing. At summer time, streets are crowded with kids. Sometimes I don’t even know where those kids from. They are biking, playing and joking on the streets. Whenever you passed by, you can feel their happiness and joyful, then “I wish I can be them again. I was doing the same thing when I was their age…” those things will appear in you mind. When the fall is here, thousands of thousands leafs are failing from the trees, ground are fill with red leafs, looks like those trees are using the last thing they have, drawing a beautiful picture for us, who lives here, to show that how beautiful “Woodhaven” is. What about winner? If you want to know it, find out by yourself. Coming here at the winner snowing time, you will see the “heaven” in your eyes.