New York Explorations

Discovering New York City one adventure at a time..

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Little Italy: A Lasting Culture

Although no longer the site for our final assignment, this served as a beginning to understanding the people and culture that define an area. 

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Describing a potential site location for our final project: Little Italy. 

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The Chinatown and Little Italy border was once a distinctive zone bound by Canal Street. However, Chinatown as slowly spread upwards, shrinking Little Italy’s boundaries. We hope to discover and create a portrait of this unique “edge” condition.. if one even exists. 

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A recent visit to the Museum City of New York. First time visit for this New Yorker who should have gone there sooner. Fun exhibit on cartoons from the "New Yorker" and interesting short film on the changing landscape of NYC!

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A cognitive map of my “journey” from my apartment to Columbia campus. I tried to incorporate Lynch's ideas of paths, edges, nodes, districts, and landmarks

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“Battery Park City is the premier model of modern city living.” 

-Shari Hyman, President & COO Battery Park City Alliance

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Why does the chicken cross the road?

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Hidden Broadway Parks. 

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Wander #1

A curious place to stop and take a break but these benches were always in use.

The first sight of public seating on the sidewalk at 90th Street. For such wide sidewalks, there seems to be a lack of resting places such as this.  

Walking down Broadway is a fairly even stroll. But looking down cross streets to the east and west, you notice a big difference in the grade as you move toward other avenues. 

I spy with my eye... too many signs to count. A very confusing intersection between Broadway and Amsterdam @ 71st Street.