Concluding Thoughts
From Decoding New York
"I enjoyed discovering the best pizza I ever tasted in the Crown Heights neighborhood." - Valerie Tulbovich
"I enjoyed traveling to places I'd never been before. It's easy to forget how much the outer boroughs have to offer." - Daniel Blondell
"I enjoyed hearing stories about people's homelands." - Samantha Lau
"What's not to love about a class that confirms that New York is the center of the known universe? Also, it was great to see not only how various economic, political, social, and cultural factors affect so many neighborhoods, but how those neighborhoods affect one another." - Julian Joiris
"I realized that all people despite their different cultures want the same things: acceptance, prosperity, and happiness." - Karina Fatova
"I realized that immigrants not only enrich individual neighborhoods and nourish our flourishing economy but also change our culture and way of life not by making it in any way superior but simply by making it different, by making it 'American.'" - Irina Mullokandova
"The thing I enjoyed most about this project was exploring neighborhoods in New York that I wasn't familiar with." - Matthew Kosiewska
"Most of all I enjoyed discovering a new side of New York City." - Yuliya Baratt
"I enjoyed meeting the people in the different neighborhoods, and being able to learn from personal experiences rather than by demographic information and secondary sources." - Daniel D
"I enjoyed doing research (historical and first-hand) on an ethnic group that does not have as much material written on it as others because of their very recent arrival to NYC and the U.S. (Arabs). Also, I liked that through interviews I was able to defy the pre-concieved notion that Arabs and older immigrants in Bay Ridge like Italians and Irish don't get along/hate each other." - Sasha Fahme
"I enjoyed being looked at (and acting) like a tourist in an area that I spent my childhood in." - Wilson Leung
"What I enjoyed doing in this neighborhood study was being able to see first what goes on within the neighborhoods and how people react to ousiders." - Natalie Farokhzadeh
"I enjoyed seeing the neighborhoods through the lens of a camera, like a photographer on a mission." - Shane Gellerman
