i live on a corner of a block. i know which buildings are to the left
and right, but i have no idea what's behind our building. getting an
eyeful at a condemned building next to a posh loft building is one of
my favorite waiting-while-microwaving-corn activities. i've lived here
long enough to want to understand geography more than intersections and
Good Cookie Place landmarks. in brooklyn, i'm always looking for a
closer park for Rocky IV to run around in.
I googled my neighborhood....guess what I saw:
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Streets, sidewalks, buildings...and green! It's like there's a creme filling of trees and greenery in the middle of every block! I could walk 20 feet from my building, squeeze my way through an alley or scale a fence or brick wall, and be in the middle of something...alive, or open, or...even more littered.
These green spaces are actually grids of fences and yards belonging individual brownstones. What if they came together and decided to take down their chain linked fences and treat the space as that block's park? My neighbors are friendly enough to one another, and the biggest church around always seems to need more space. Yes, this is Utopian, and unrealistic to ask people to give up a chunk of their property for public use, and they'd probably fill the green space with parking space before making it a park for all ages, but I think the neighborhood would be a more pleasant place to live! At least for Rocky IV and me. I could finally go barefoot again.
I googled my neighborhood....guess what I saw:
View Larger Map
Streets, sidewalks, buildings...and green! It's like there's a creme filling of trees and greenery in the middle of every block! I could walk 20 feet from my building, squeeze my way through an alley or scale a fence or brick wall, and be in the middle of something...alive, or open, or...even more littered.
These green spaces are actually grids of fences and yards belonging individual brownstones. What if they came together and decided to take down their chain linked fences and treat the space as that block's park? My neighbors are friendly enough to one another, and the biggest church around always seems to need more space. Yes, this is Utopian, and unrealistic to ask people to give up a chunk of their property for public use, and they'd probably fill the green space with parking space before making it a park for all ages, but I think the neighborhood would be a more pleasant place to live! At least for Rocky IV and me. I could finally go barefoot again.
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