brewstabrewsta#8

iternary:suggested by group 5



*Jamba Juice on Lexington between 86th and 87th


*Marymount High School on 5th Avenue between 84th and 83rd


*Saint Ignatius Church on Park Avenue between 84th and 83rd


*The Metropolitan Museum of Art on 5th Avenue between 83rd and 82nd


*Central Park- The Great Lawn


*The Reservoir


for activity number 8, group five suggested that we go to the places listed above..on our way to kc's school we got a little tour of the schools surrounding areas and the first stop was jamba juice, which was pretty much like all the others except this one had a longer line since it was so warm that day...after that kc pointed out a few of her "food spots" ..like Hot N Crusty (bagel shop) and a pizza place she often ate lunch at..after that she showed us a few more places that were close to Marymount ..which was her old high school on 5th ave..around lunch time we went to saint ignatius church.( a place she had to attend while going to marymount) .however some church's like : ." St.peter's Catholic church...where the main entrance was sealed with concrete...and was the church's way of saying that the town's main thoroughfare had become to abominable to connect with."(kunstler,pg139).. (in other words some areas are so bad that not only do they not let you in when church isn't in session it decided to close down instead) but in this case..


we were allowed to go inside.. which i really appreciated since inside the was a lot cooler and the statutes there were way more interesting compared to the bagel and pizza shops that were pointed out earlier... after making our rounds at the church we finally made it to marymount only to find out that we couldn't go inside .. and had to settle with looking at the out side structure of the school.. which was actually 3 donated mansions.. (which is pretty awesome)..


after some time we headed out to the metro. museum.. going there reminded me of whytes video.. where he explained why people gather where they do... there i was able to see first hand that when he said "Sight lines are important. If people do not see a space,they will not use it." (whyte,p.129)... it really was true.. i mean even though there were chairs provided by the museum' people still gathered on the stairs... because by just one look there seem to be more space on the stairs.. v.s the limited space for the chairs... in addition to that a group was there singing songs from the Lion King.. after that we moved on to central parks great lawn..there we briefly spoke about shared and gendered space like how the majority of the lawn is shared but when it comes to places pertaining to sports like the baseball field .. it would be male dominated.. (however, i have noticed in the summer women would usually be seperated from men when they sun bathe).


"the best way to handle undesirables is to make it attractive for everyone else"(whyte..)


to me this pretty much describes how i felt about our final destination on this trip which was the reservoir.. since it was my first time there i was really impressed when i saw the water.. and i guess that's what drew the crowd in that day because there were a lot of people there too..some were jogging along what kc explained to be the bridal path, while others were walking around the water which unfortunately wasn't to be touched .... after doing all of this we decided to wrap up part one of our group trip..






itenary:suggested by group6




*Union Square-




*Fifth Avenue




*South Side of Union Square




*North Side of Union Square


the second half of the trip was suggested by benji.. from our group and i was pretty stoked about it because i love union square... which just happens to be one of the few places that i know off the back off my hand .. since its one of stops on the L train.. being there with the group brought a new feel to the familiar for me.. because even though i tend to hang out at union square its usually to shop or to walk by as im heading out to st.marks..none the less we started out at 5th ave and our group took note of some of the neighborhood stores... and even went in a few like Levi's, David z's and Daffy's... after window shopping we eventually made it back to union square and started "people watching"... ."what attracts people most, would appear is other people." (whyte,114)...with so much to do and see at union square the majority of the public both young and old ... would usually resort to sitting on the stairs just looking at other people go by.. and i really cant blame them because some of the most eccentric people tend to flock to union square..


while hanging around the square we also noticed street vendors selling their goods ..whyte once stated:"Food. "If you want to seed a place with activity, put out
food." Well designed food places can help give life to a space."..
but for a place such as this i think it was the other way around.. in which the crowd drew the vender's to the area .. mainly because union square is already such a populated area.. I'm sure the vendors were drawn here in hopes of more profit.. and today the square was filled with a lot of life and activity. from where we were we were able to see hip hop dancers on one side entertaining the crowd while people selling their art,books and jewelry were trying to draw a crowd..after that we began making moves towards the north side (which was the hectic part) which is a bit confusing to figure out but apparently there's a triangle in the middle so pedestrians can cross over.. i suppose its meant to break up traffic but i think it just adds to the confusion...finally when we got to the north side we because there wasn't really any where to sit..and lack of activity (besides the kids who were skating and the people who were walking by)... after that we decided to end this trip..
even though we didn't explore that much compare to the first trip .. i really enjoyed this one better.. because it was familiar to me.. and compared to the first trip we didn't have to walk around as much..in search of interesting things.. because at union square it was all around us.. though the first trip did have its perks like the reservoir .. which i would definitely visit again.. even if I'm not allowed to touch the walk ..its still a pretty nice spot..for flaneuring especially in the summer..