| This
was a 10 week project mapping the area around Church Avenue in Flatbush,
Brooklyn, between Bedford Avenue and Coney Island Avenue. The information
gathered was edited, organized and posted on a website. Programs such as
Photoshop and Dreamweaver were used to prepare, represent and organize the
information on the website. Along the Bedford – Coney Island route
various pictures were taken and sounds recorded. They were based on several
days on Church Avenue, with the usual business and sellers. The most probable
theme of this project would be ‘Business as Usual.' |
|
There is a section, Prospect Park
South, with purely residential colonial homes which is as quiet as it
is beautiful. This was the most residential area that was captured. As
you travel along Church Avenue, heading toward Coney Island, the commercial
area slowly fades away into this residential area. The diversity of sounds,
images and culture, just in this area, is as staggering as it is a beautiful
place to enjoy Brooklyn at its fullest.
Click on the map below to enter
the site. |
| This
project was produced by Nickolai Sampson, a student at Erasmus High School,
in collaboration with the Urban Design Program at the Brooklyn Center for
the Urban Environment. |
|
Thanks to Veronica
Yard, Edwin Huh, Myrna Walters, Laura Edwards and Colette Marshall. |
