West of Kennedy building at St. Thomas

During my observation I discovered a lot in my surroundings. I saw people outside sitting on the green round benches. There were only seven people; all of them were women. Two were writing with their right hand. I also saw people walking in and out of the building. Then I saw someone talking on their phone for a few minutes. There were two people on their laptops; both listening to music, but I think one was doing homework and the other one I wasn’t sure what she was doing. There was one student reading out of their textbook probably studying for an upcoming test. West of Kennedy is one of the areas where people using smoke. There were people walking up to the vending machines to get snacks or a drink. Outside of west Kennedy is covered with a pavilion. While sitting outside many people were walking by, but this time there was only one which was an athlete student. At the end of west Kennedy there was a go cart parked by the stairs. As I was sitting there a student walked by and said “hi”. Even though there was busy traffic; meaning a lot of people walking in and out of the building, the area was very quiet and not many people were talking. From a distance on her way going to Kennedy, a student athlete almost tripped over her own foot. A couple minutes later a faculty member came out to take a smoke break. After that two people stopped to talk to each other and throughout the whole entire time birds chirping constantly.

observation poem

While the students were writing, the room was very quiet; some were sitting here, some were there, and some were even sitting anywhere; there were things on the wall; posters, writings couldn’t think of all; hell there was very a crack on the wall; there was carpet on the floor, but nothing on the door; there was different color chair, but couldn’t count them anymore; the room didn’t seem so crowed so no one shouted; from observing my surrounding this is what I founded; now off to bed for the next day to revisit my surroundings.

Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn; "The Mob City"

The interviewee grew up In Brooklyn, but didn’t stay there very long. She would move around to different cities in New York. even though she didn't live in bedford, she still would go back to visit family and friends because thats where most of her family was from. As a child, she would she was only allowed to play with the neighborhood kids outside and most of the time she was with family. she considered bedford a not so quiet area and not very violent. She didn't go to any schools in bedford but went to a private in another area. She also stated that Bedford always had a mixture of ethnicities but predominantly had African Americans. according the interiewee famous rapper/produre Gotti was one of the well known people because he would have festivals for the neighborhood and he was pretty much like a protector of the neighborhood so therefore, there were barely any crimes in the neighborhood. she also stated that everyone in the neighborhood was considered be very respectful and nice.

Bedford-Stuyvesant is a neighborhood in the central portion of the New York City form 1930. The neighborhood is patrolled by the NYPD’s 79^th and 81^st precincts. For decades, it has been cultural center of Brooklyn’s black population. In 1936, blacks left an overcrowded Harlem for more housing availability in Bedford. Bedford-Stuyvesant is actually made up of four neighborhoods; Bedford-Stuyvesant heights, Ocean Hill, and Weeksville.  The names Bedford-Stuyvesant is extension of village of Bedford and expanded to include the area of Stuyvesant heights. The name Stuyvesant comes from peter Stuyvesant the last governor.

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