Church Ave Q station
4:20pm
Sunny and beautiful
Birds chirping
High 60s, low 70s
People wearing long sleeves long pants light jackets
Black Latino white people
Goth couple black woman, white man, hair dyed, studded leather
St. Paul's and Caton
4:25pm
Women in sundresses
Sun is so bright
Man walking two small dogs, late 20s white tattoo arm bars re muscle tee
18th st
10yr old brown boy on bike
Middle age couple pushing one real shopping cart and dragging the other type
Turning left on e 17th to hopefully get to church
Cherry blossoms
Trash on street for pick up
Buildings are brick, 6 stories with prominent fire escapes
White peoples fade away
POC, appears to be more residents
Young families strollers
Turn right on church
1hr photo looks worn down on the corner of church and 17tg
Young Whire family baby in stroller IKEA bag
Bonby’s department store
Man selling watches in the street but not with a big table
Ice cram truck across storm Bobby’s
At 16th and church it turns into residential again
B35
Dna testing
Fashion school all on the right boarded up and beaten down
Marlborough
4:33
Temple Beth emeth across the street
Houses are huge and well kept up
● Handed a pamphlet by an older black woman with a slight accept (caribean French, like Haitian?) who was with two other similar woman looking dressed for church, pamphlet is in Spanish but the accent deff wasn't
House has basketball hoop
Other house Black older man 50+ lounges on his porch
Young Latino makes taking Spanish
White mom with her 8yr 6yr old daughters
Turning left on rugby
Older black couple lounging on their front porch with beautiful garden
Little free library
Can conclude that race is very very mixed here and all share neighborhood more or less
Houses are huge, with towers and almost all have front porches, different styles
Cars on street look new and shiny
A apartment building in corner of albermatie and rugby that wouldn't normally look like the nicest brick building but the trees and gardens around it make it fit right in
Traffic is light and I hear birds chirping
Dogs being walked
And families playing (two small girls grap flowers from a tree and call out in Spanish to their mother and other female relative)
Very very faintly sirens come from church Abe
Right on albermatie
Huge house again brick, actually the Albanian American Islamic center little purple flip flops outside of it, blends into neighborhood
Incredibly White House in need of paint cat lazes on steps beware of dog
Argyle and albemarie still walking down albemarie
4:47
Recognizing I should head back to church
City investigations van slowly pulls past me! Checking me out!!!
Two 20 something joggers
Turning left in Westminster to go back to church
Some chipping paint of a huge house but nothing bad. Probably neglected deff not
Abandoned- with stain glassed looking Windows
I can't express how big these houses are
Smaller brick houses on my left. Garage on the first story and entrance in the second
Apparatchi church I hear brakes squealing for the buses
Also dogs barking from the house
The clank of people undoing their bike locks
Left in church 4:51
Muffled music from cars, top hits hip hop
Smells like meatloaf? In a really nice way
Stores: Indian restaurant, glass store, electronics repair, home care services? Iglesias, daycare/playhouse,
Restaurant that's has its chain thing half closed, vacant, deli, veterinary, and daycare
All look to be in various states of care. Some just look faded but still doing well. Others look brand new.
There isn't that much traffic here. A bus. A couple of cars.
It's shady where I walk
Statford
Sun is so bright
Walking the line between residential and business
Plumbing and heathy f sign looks worn down.
And other day care
Dentist
Al-tawheed mosque
Someone bouncing a basketball
My favorite Thai place?!
Bernie poster in the window of a buNess that is all windows and no sign saying what it is
Drug care Corp pharmacy on the corner
E10th
Metro PCs is first major chain I noticed today
People are looking at me weird, (that makes sense)
Looking at me very very weird
Kawasaki/ Yamaha shop closed
People remain mixed in race, age, gender. Many wear religious garb
Coney Island ace and church Abe
Huge autozone
B35 goes up and down church
Andrews coffee shop
Parking lot
Rocky’s pizza
People wait for b35
It is sunny
I am too warm
Right in coney back down towards Cortelyou
Kawasaki and Yamaha shop wasn't closed. It's store front is on coney. It sells scooted
Tire shop
Mechanic shops in other side too
Metal and supplies sign over what looks like a parking lot/ place to store supposed
Medical office closed
Equipment rental,
Halal meet
Plumping electrical
Blue collar businesses
Friel pl
12 garages? And nothing else
All in varying states of repair
Motorcycles
Gulf gas station with a du nun donuts
No one really in the street
Caton Abe
People walking up and down Caton
Mobil gas station on left
B16 bus station (man 60+ I suit) on right plus a nice park on right
Park appears togas community garden
B68 bus stop no one there
(5:07pm)
Two older women, one speaking on phone in sheet sounds like Slovic
In park: community garden is locked off
Looks like an area to keep animals? Or some kind of track of some type.
Two picnic tables not in use
Straight ahead down the path u can see people playing softball or baseball
Nice seating area but it's all middle age men and one woman and they aren't sitting
They’re playing bocci ball
I think I hit prospect park
Totally screwed up and went the wrong way
But this is so nice though. Look at all the people who use the park:
Dog walkers, people carrying books, bicyclists, people playing ball, people
Going for a walk
Back from Caton and Stanford to Coney Island
5:16
From the other side deff looks and smells like a place to keep animals
Coney Island and Caton
Taking a left
Trying to meet up with Courtney
Same man still waiting on the b16
5:18pm
Friel pl
Construction viewable ahead
3 diff bicyclists
Staten Island university medical hospital (the doctors offices previous mentioned) looks so run down
Green taxi parked
Man works in car that's parked on the road replacing its tires
Beginning to get very tired
Back at church. Will end log here.